Rubber World back issues from November 1993:
Smithers Scientific Services. (establishes subsidiary) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Smithers Scientific Services has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Smithers Quality Assessments, a completely independent organization tasked with providing third-party audits and certification services to the ISO 9000 International Standards for Quality ...
Akrochem. (opens distribution facility) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Akrochem is opening a state-of-the-art distribution center in late November in Stow, OH. The 85,000 square foot facility will store 10 million pounds of Akrochem rubber and plastic compounding materials, and will serve as ...
Youngstown Rubber Products. (ownership change) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Youngstown Rubber Products announced that controlling interest of the corporation was purchased by the organization's chief financial officer, Joseph Calcagni and cmei operating officer, James R. Tomaino. The transaction took place after ...
Harwick Chemical. (new laboratory complex) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Harwick Chemical announced the addition of its 16,000 square foot laboratory complex at its Akron, OH production facility. The lab's technical and ...
Exxon Chemical. (polymer manufacturing facility upgrade) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... The Polymers Group of Exxon Chemical, a division of Exxon, is upgrading its Baton Rouge, LA butyl polymers manufacturing facilities to allow full plant production of Exxon star-branched butyl and ...
C.U.E. (polyurethane product manufacturing facility expansion) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... C.U.E., a manufacturer of cast polyurethane products, announced that construction has begun on a 47,700 square foot addition to its existing facility in Cranberry Township, PA. When completed, ...
Rubber Development. (headquarters relocated to Iowa) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Rubber Development, a custom producer of high quality elastomeric components for commercial and military original equipment manufacturers, has announced that it is expanding operations and relocating its corporate headquarters to central Iowa. Rubber Development will begin rubber products ...
Huls America. (catalog business sold to United Chemical Technologies Inc.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Huls America has sold its Silanes and Silicones Research Catalog business to United Chemical Technologies of Horsham, PA. Included in the sale is the HAI ...
Polymer Laboratories Ltd. (acquires Applied Chromatography Systems Ltd.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Polymer Laboratories Ltd. has strengthened its expanding chromatography instrument group with the acquisition of the assets of ...
Pecos Polymer Processing. (acquires Resource Rubber and Chemicals' plant) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Pecos Polymer Processing has completed the purchase of Resource Rubber & Chemicals' synthetic rubber reprocessing facility, located in Houston, TX. The facility, which produces high quality ...
Allied Color Industries. (merges with Avecor Inc.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Allied Color Industries of Broadview Heights, OH, and Avecor of Vonore, TN, will merge to form a business with seven manufacturing facilities and nearly 350 employees. Both are business units of M.A. Hanna, an international specialty chemicals company based in Cleveland, OH. ...
Resinall. (reactor completion) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ...Pecos Polymer Processing has completed the purchase of Resource Rubber & Chemicals' synthetic rubber reprocessing facility, located in Houston, TX. The facility, which produces high quality ...
Wilson Composites Group. (consolidation) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... The consolidation of Wilson Composites Group, Composite Material Services, CEMS and CEMS ...
Freudenberg-NOK. (opens vibration control development laboratory) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Freudenberg-NOK celebrated the grand opening of its vibration control development laboratory, aimed at helping North ...
Fabreeker International. (acquires Bandtransport Zaanstreek and Inder International) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Fabreeka International, an international manufacturer of conveyor belting and industrial shock and vibration isolation systems, announced the acquisition from BTZ Industries, a Dutch holding company, of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Bandtransport Zaanstreek and Inder ...
Phillips Petroleum International Investment. (sells Phillips Fibers Corp. to Amoco Fabrics and Fibers Co.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Phillips Petroleum International Investment, an indirect subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum, completed the ...
Eaton. (acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s division waived by Siemens AG) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Eaton announced that Siemens AG of Germany has waived its right to purchase the Distribution and Control Business Unit of Westinghouse Electric. Eaton's purchase of the Westinghouse ...
General Signal. (acquires Revco Scientific Inc.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... General Signal and Revco Scientific have agreed to the acquisition by General Signal of Revco for approximately $84 million, payable to General Signal common stock. Revco, with 1992 sales of ...
Associated Pacific Machine. (moves to Camarillo, California) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Associated Pacific Machine announced its move to Camarillo, CA, northwest of Los Angeles. In addition to a large office area, the facility includes a spacious warehouse to ...
Tech International. (forms ProTech International) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Tech International, a manufacturer of tire repair materials, has completed the formation of its industrial division, ProTech ...
Rohm and Haas. (production facility expansion) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Rohm and Haas has reached the mid-point of a six-year program to upgrade and expand the production facilities supporting its global plastics additives business. Debottlenecking of existing plants in Europe and North America in the second half of the program will yield an additional 25,000 ...
Automotive Parts and Accessories Association. (to operate U.S. Aftermarket Industry Office in Mexico City, Mexico with Specialty Equipment Market Association) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... APAA, the Automotive Parts and Accessories Association, and SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, will jointly open and operate the U.S. Aftermarket Industry Office in Mexico City. The ...
Dexter. (appoints German representative) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Dexter has appointed Rudolf Helmet GmbH, Wilberg, Germany, to ...
Praxair. (marketing agreement with Recovery Technologies) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Praxair and Recovery Technologies announced they will cooperatively market liquid nitrogen supply and cryogenic scrap tire recovery systems. The systems operate on low power, use nitrogen ...
Tioxide Group. (joint venture with NL Industries Inc.'s Kronos Div.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Tioxide Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICI, involved in the titanium pigment industry, has completed a ...
ECO2. (contracts with Northstar Commodities) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Scrap tire processor EC[O.sub.2] has signed a contract to sell a substantial part of the annual ...
Danieli Wean. (formed to market Wean Inc.'s products) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Danieli Wean has been formed to market, engineer and supply the products which were acquired from the Wean Industries Division of Wean. Danieli Wean will ensure full continuity in the supply of ...
Rheometrics. (selects Newcomb Associates as southeast representative) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Rheometrics has named Newcomb Associates of Huntsville, AL to ...
Synray. (appoints Southeast Pigments and Resins as southeast sales representative) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Synray has appointed Southeast Pigments & Resins as their sales ...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber. (markets tire line to Wal-Mart Stores inc.) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Goodyear Tire & Rubber will begin selling a line of passenger tires to Wal-Mart stores. The Goodyear Viva all-season radial tire will ...
General Tire. (price increase) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... General Tire announced a two percent price increase on all giant tires, size 16:00 and larger. The increase for tires shipped ...
Union Carbide. (restructuring plans) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Union Carbide announced a restructuring that will eliminate its four divisions, and have nine strategic businesses report to Dr. William H. Joyce, UCC president and chief operating officer. The four divisions being eliminated are industrial chemicals, polyolefins, solvents and coatings ...
PolyUrethanes Recycle and Recovery Council. (polyurethane foam recycling research) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Recent tests by the PolyUrethanes Recycle & Recovery Council (PURRC) indicate that it may be economically feasible, as well as technically possible, to recycle reground flexible polyurethane foam by adding it to the production of flexible polyurethane slabstock foam. Pilot scale trial runs ...
Trade deficits grow for misc. rubber products and pneumatic tires, tubes.
Nov 01, 1993 ...Deficit grows for misc. products The U.S. trade deficit in 1992 for miscellaneous rubber or plastics products climbed to $1 billion, due largely to rising imports from China and Canada. This represents a 12% jump, worth $108 million, according to the latest figures from the ...
Update: solvent selection for processing silicone elastomers.
Nov 01, 1993; ... Elastomeric films are used widely throughout industry in applications ranging from coatings for wires to masks on printed circuit boards. In the medical industry alone, membranes and coatings made of silicone elastomer have a variety of specialized applications. Catheters depend on ...
Computerized optimization of a white sidewall. (tire formulation)
Nov 01, 1993; ... Compounds for tire white sidewalls are formulated to deliver a variety of properties including: * A cure rate compatible with processing and cure of the green tire composite; * hardness and stress/strain properties; * adhesion to adjoining tire ...
Predictive molding of elastomer aging effects on dynamic and static shear modulus.
Nov 01, 1993; ... Elastomers are used in applications for vibration isolation, motion accommodation and shock control. When designing components to provide vibration isolation and motion control, important physical properties are dynamic modulus, static modulus and tan delta. When elastomeric products are ...
Spreadsheets in the rubber laboratory.
Nov 01, 1993; ... In the early 1970s, widespread availability of the electronic calculator significantly reduced the time and effort required to calculate the specific gravity, cost per pound and pound/volume cost of a rubber formula. Though a vast improvement over the slide rule, permanent records had to ...
FEA of steel cable conveyer belt splices. (finite element analysis)
Nov 01, 1993; ... Finite element analysis has existed for many years. In simple terms, it is a numerically intensive analysis of an arbitrary geometry. The user subdivides complex two dimensional shapes into small rectangular or triangular sections, or three dimensional shapes into rectangular prismatic or ...
J. Michael Hochschwender. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... J. Michael Hochschwender was named president of Smithers Quality Assessments. Stephen ...
Eika Yamagata. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Yokohama Tire named Eika Yamagata ...
Thomas P. Storrs. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Thomas P. Storrs assumed the position of president and chief operating officer for Inflation Systems, Highland Industries. Ernest King ...
Philip R. Jardine. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Epsilon Products appointed Philip R. Jardine president, succeeding ...
Robert Krafcik. (executive appointment ) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Robert Krafcik was elected president of ...
Alexander M. Cutler. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Alexander M. Cutler was named president and chief operating officer for Eaton. Joseph L. Becherer will become vice president, operations; Jerald J. Theder will become vice president, integration; ...
Austin List. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Golding Industries elected ...
James E. Jack. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Associates Corporation of North America promoted James E. Jack to senior executive vice ...
J.R. Lockhart. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... J.R. Lockhart was named vice president ...
Dwight D. Morgan. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... M.A. Hanna appointed Dwight D. Morgan executive vice president of marketing and technology for Allied Color Industries. Barbara A. Gould was ...
Dennis K. Medler. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Dennis K. Medler was appointed executive ...
Jim Knudsen. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... AEC appointed Jim Knudsen ...
Bernard J. Froelich. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Bernard J. Froelich was named director of sales and ...
Peter Ferris. (executive appointment) (Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1993 ... Peter Ferris was appointed director of ...