Rubber World back issues from July 1993:
Resinall. (nears completion of reactor construction) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Stamford, CT-based Resinall will complete construction by the end of August of a 20,000 gallon reactor to produce rosin-based resins and resin- and/or hydrocarbon-based solutions at its Hattiesburg, MS, manufacturing plant ....
Freudenberg-NOK. (builds new vibration control laboratory) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Freudenberg-NOK is building an 8,000 square foot vibration control development laboratory, slated to open in August, at its manufacturing facility in Ligonier, IN. Existing test equipment from the company's Plymouth Concept Center and about $1 million worth of new development and analysis ...
Freudenberg-NOK. (plans to make vibration control equipment in Mexico) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Freudenberg-NOK will make vibration control dampers, such as engine mounts and torsional and half-shaft dampers, in Cuautla, Mexico, as a result of a $3 million investment over the next ...
Bridgestone/Firestone. (expands plant in Warren City, Tennessee) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Bridgestone/Firestone is expanding its Warren City, TN, radial truck and bus tire plant by 76%, costing the company about $110 million. Actual construction will cost $14 million, with the remaining money used for purchasing equipment and installation. When ...
Danaher Corp. (purchases segments of Mark IV Industries Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Washington D.C.-based Danaher Corp. purchased the Gulton Graphic Instrument Division, East Greenwich, RI, from Mark IV Industries for an undisclosed amount. The transaction included the other Mark IV ...
Thunderline's. (subsidiary expands operations) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Thunderline's Precision Molded Rubber subsidiary announced a three-fold expansion at its site in Belleville, MI, that will ...
Cytec Industries. (considering expanding amino resins facility) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Cytec Industries, a business unit of American Cyanamid, is conducting engineering studies prior to expanding its amino resins facility in ...
Elf Atochem North America. (begins construction of plant in Crosby, Texas) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... The Organic Peroxides Business Unit of Elf Atochem North America began construction of a manufacturing facility in Crosby, TX, featuring a multi-purpose and multi-product line to manufacture selected dialkyl peroxides, peroxyesters, ...
Skinner Engine. (plans product line expansion) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Skinner Engine, Erie, PA, plans to expand its offering of equipment, and is currently reviewing potentially suitable equipment ...
Dover Chemical. (relocates research and technical service groups) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Dover Chemical moved its research and technical service groups into a 9,400 square foot research and development center in Dover, OH. The remodeled facility houses offices and laboratories ...
Dayco Products. (to purchase Pirelli S.p.A.'s Power Transmission division) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Dayco Products, the Dayton, OH-based manufacturer of industrial and auto belts, hoses and related components, signed a purchase agreement for the Power Transmission Division of Pirelli. The acquisition increases ...
M.A. Hanna. (completes purchase of Texapol Corp. and assets of Monmouth Plastics Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... M.A. Hanna, Cleveland, OH, completed its acquisition of Texapol, Bethlehem, PA, and acquired certain assets of Monmouth Plastics, Asbury Park, ...
Cook Chemical. (merges with D.L. Associates) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Cook Chemical, Capistrano Beach, CA, announced the merger of D.L. Associates of Vista, CA, into its operations. Both ...
Air Products and Chemicals. (opens seventh regional distribution center) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Allentown, PA-based Air Products and Chemicals opened its seventh U.S. regional distribution center, in Portland, OR, to supply polyurethane ...
Sandoz Chemicals. (purchases Spectrum Colors) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Charlotte, NC-based Sandoz Chemicals purchased Spectrum Colors, a Minneapolis, MN-based color concentrate ...
Dow Plastics. (starts up new ethylene plant in Freeport, Texas) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Dow Plastics started-up a plant to produce ethylene based on Insite technology, which is a proprietary, single site constrained geometry catalyst technology. Located at ...
Chronos Richardson. (signs cooperative promotion agreement wth Suzuka Engineering) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Nottingham, England based Chronos Richardson signed an agreement with Suzuka Engineering of Japan to promote the two companies' technologies in the rubber manufacturing industry. The companies will jointly develop technology in the areas of handling/conveying carbon black and ...
Alexandria Carbon Black. (builds carbon black plant) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... A 20,000 metric ton plant for production of tread and carcass grades of carbon black is being built by Alexandria Carbon Black in Egypt, using carbon black technology ...
Perkin-Elmer. (signs development and marketing agreement with Dow Chemical Co.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Perkin-Elmer and Dow Chemical entered a strategic alliance to develop and globally market instrumentation systems for real-time process analysis, with the objective of extending the practical use of analytical ...
Amoco Performance Products. (signs distribution agreement with M.A. Hanna Co.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Amoco Performance Products, which produces engineering thermoplastics, signed a letter of intent for M.A. Hanna to become its exclusive U.S ....
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America. (signs tire supply contract with Industrial Tires Ltd.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America in Mentor, OH, has chosen Industrial Tires Limited of Mississauga, Ontario, as its supplier of press-on and pneumatic-shaped solid ...
Rheometrics. (signs marketing agreement with Labstreet) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Rheometrics, the Piscataway, NJ-based manufacturer of rheological test instruments and ...
Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (signs distribution agreement with Mettler-Toledo Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing Co. Ltd., which manufactures scientific instruments, named Mettler-Toledo its exclusive distributor for analytic instrumentation in the U.S. Previously, ...
Glo-Mold. (signs distribution agreement with H.M. Royal Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Glo-Mold appointed H.M. Royal as a distributor ...
Akron Rubber Development Laboratory. (selected to provide butyl rubber industry reference material) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Akron Rubber Development Laboratory has been selected by ASTM and NIST to inventory and supply the butyl rubber industry reference material formerly supplied by the National Bureau of Standards. The ...
Armstrong World Industries. (involved in research consortium with Raychem Corp., Rohm and Haas Co., Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., and the Department of Energy) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, PA; Raychem, Menlo Park, CA; Rohm and Haas, Spring House, PA; 3M, St. Paul, MN; and the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM are collaborating on a cooperative research and development program to improve the ...
Copolymer. (Copolymer Rubber and Chemical Corp. changes name to DSM Copolymer Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Carlisle Geauga, a subsidiary of Carlisle Corp., was selected as one of General Motors' worldwide suppliers of the year ....
Gooch Engineering Associates. (new company) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Lawrence R. Gooch, principal engineer, formed Gooch Engineering Associates in Plymouth, NH. The engineering and consulting firm ...
Dover Chemical. (announces price increase) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Dover Chemical, Dover, OH, announced a 30 cents per pound increase in scheduled and off-schedule selling ...
Witco. (restructures polymer additives operations) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Witco restructured and formed a Polymer Additives Group to handle plastics and rubber additives products formerly supplied by the Argus, Organics and Humko Chemical Divisions and also by Sherex ...
Machinery survey targets new, rebuilt suppliers. (annual survey of rubber machinery suppliers) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Slightly less than half (48%) of the 71 respondents to Rubber World's annual survey of new machinery and equipment suppliers predict their sales for 1993 will increase. A little fewer than that, 42%, said their machinery business has increased over the past few years, while 25% said it has ...
Practical techniques of injection molding. (Column)
Jul 01, 1993; ... The changes in the rubber industry over the last 30 years have been dramatic. Most notable perhaps has been the rapid increase in the industry's acceptance of injection molding for the production of many parts categories, most of which had been produced by compression/transfer molding ...
Flow visualization studies of internal mixing using rotors of different design.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Flow visualization in the internal mixer is the most effective way to study the flow patterns and mixing mechanisms dominating the behavior of the internal mixer. How visualization investigation was initiated by Asai et al (refs. 1-3), Frealdey and Wan Idris (ref. 4) in 1978, Recently Min ...
Advances in mixing line equipment.
Jul 01, 1993; ... The typical rubber mixing system consists of an internal, intensive batch mixer followed by varying downstream equipment. One common line involves discharging the mixed batch onto a two-roll mill usually referred to as a drop mill. Often the drop mill is followed by a secondary mill for ...
Continuous processing high quality compounds on a co-rotating twin screw extruder.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Traditionally, rubber materials have been compounded in batch equipment that imparts shear stress for mixing through a variety of mechanisms. These include the familiar two roll mills, sigma blade and internal type mixers. This equipment has been successfully used for many years and will ...
Frank Kelly Jr. (named chief executive officer of Industrial Rubber Products Co.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Frank Kelly, Jr., has rejoined Industrial ...
Dennis L. Rediker. (named president and chief executive officer of ECC International) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Dennis L. Rediker has been appointed president ...
H.D. McCuistion. (named president and chief executive officer of Robbins Tire and Rubber Company Inc.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... H.D. McCuistion has become president and chief ...
Gary Willig. (named president of Polyurethane Manufacturers Association)(includes other officials) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... Gary Willig, president of Parkway Products, was elected president of the Polyurethane Manufacturers Association. He replaces Richard J. Gallagher, Jr. Other officers elected for the 1993-94 term include: William ...
A. James Freeman. (retires from Lord Corp.) (Brief Article)
Jul 01, 1993 ... A. James Freeman, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Lord ...