Rubber World back issues from March 2009:
Mixed signals.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Twenty-five years ago we launched our first issue with custom services as the emphasis. We included a directory of custom mixers in the editorial mix and it has remained a staple of the issue. In that first directory, 41 custom mixing facilities were listed. Even though 15 of ...
Lubrizol acquires Dow's PU business.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Lubrizol (www.lubrizol.com), Cleveland, OH, has acquired the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) business from Dow Chemical. This acquisition, structured as a sale and purchase of assets, will expand Lubrizol's Estane Engineered Polymers business. The Dow TPU business, located ...
Sartomer.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer (www.sartomer.com), Exton, PA, has opened a plastics laboratory to further develop its global plastics business. The lab is dedicated to research and development of functional additives for ...
South Korea's DC Chemical (www.dcchem.co.kr) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 67% stake in the carbon black maker Columbian Chemicals.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... South Korea's DC Chemical (www.dcchem.co.kr) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 67% stake in the carbon black maker Columbian Chemicals. Private equity firm One Equity Partners, which owns 33% of Columbian ...
Motion Industries (www.motionindustries.com), Birmingham, AL, a subsidiary of Genuine Parts, has acquired Monroe Rubber & Plastic Supply.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Motion Industries (www.motionindustries.com), Birmingham, AL, a subsidiary of Genuine Parts, has acquired Monroe Rubber & Plastic Supply, ...
American Tire.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... American Tire (www.americantire.us) announced that its investment in the state of Washington for an OTR tire manufacturing plant with building and production details has been approved by the federal government of the United States. American Tire's Washington project is designed to ...
Rubber World Industries.(Acquisitions, expansions)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Rubber World Industries (www.gulfoflex.com) announced plans to increase its production capacity by 50% to 1,800 containers ...
Rhino Rubber named distributor for Stellana.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Rhino Rubber, LLC (www.rhinorubber.net), North Canton, OH, has been appointed the exclusive distributor for the Stellana USA elastomeric brand of resilient tires. Stellana manufactures a complete line of high-quality ...
Avon Rubber pie (www.avon-rubber.com), Wiltshire, U.K., announced that its Protection & Defense business has received an order from the U.S. Government for 100,000 M50 mask systems to fulfill the second year of its ten-year sole source contract.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Avon Rubber pie (www.avon-rubber.com), Wiltshire, U.K., announced that its Protection & Defense business has received an order from the U.S. Government for 100,000 M50 mask systems to fulfill the second year of its ten-year sole source contract. A second award has been received for the M50 ...
Michelin (www.michelin.com) is participating in three motorcycle speedway racing competitions in 2009.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Michelin (www.michelin.com) is participating in three motorcycle speedway racing competitions in 2009. It will take part in the Endurance World Championship, as well as in national speed championships in Spain and Italy. This year, Michelin will ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific (www.thermofisher.com) has signed an agreement with TTL Technologies Pvt. Ltd.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Thermo Fisher Scientific (www.thermofisher.com) has signed an agreement with TTL Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to distribute Thermo Scientific rheometers and viscometers in India. (RW+) ...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Goodyear Tire & Rubber (www.goodyear.com), Akron, OH, announced that its Goodyear Assurance ...
Puneet Resins Ltd. (www.puneet.in) and Excel Polymers LLC have established a marketing and distribution agreement to deliver technical rubber solutions for the elastomer component manufacturing industry in India and neighboring countries.(Contracts, licenses)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Puneet Resins Ltd. (www.puneet.in) and Excel Polymers LLC have established a marketing and distribution agreement to deliver technical rubber solutions for the elastomer component manufacturing industry in ...
Goodyear to cut 5,000 jobs after quarterly loss.(Corporate, financial news)(Financial report)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Goodyear Tire & Rubber (www.goodyear.com), Akron, OH, announced fourth quarter financial losses, and as a result plans to further reduce personnel levels by nearly 5,000, in addition to almost 4,000 reductions in the second half of 2008 and freezing salaries. The company also plans to ...
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations.(Corporate, financial news)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (www.bridgestone-firestone.com), Nashville, TN, announced it will lay off 67 hourly employees at its Bloomington, IL, facility effective this month. (RW+) ...
DuPont (www2.dupont.com), Wilmington, DE, filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Richmond, VA, against Kolon Industries.(Corporate, financial news)
Mar 01, 2009 ... DuPont (www2.dupont.com), Wilmington, DE, filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Richmond, VA, against Kolon Industries, a ...
Standards Testing Laboratories (www.stllabs.com), Massillon, OH, has won the 2009 Tire Industry Supplier of the Year Award.(Corporate, financial news)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Standards Testing Laboratories (www.stllabs.com), Massillon, OH, has won the 2009 Tire Industry Supplier of the Year Award from Tire Technology magazine, recognizing excellence and new endeavors in the field ....
Bluestar Silicones.(Quality registrations)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Bluestar Silicones (www.bluestarsilicones.com), Lyon, France, announced that Den ...
Delticom.(Quality registrations)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Delticom (www.delticom.com), Hanover, Germany, a European online tire ...
Hankook Tire (www.hankooktireusa.com), Wayne, NJ, has had three of its commercial fleet tires.(Quality registrations)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Hankook Tire (www.hankooktireusa.com), Wayne, NJ, has had three of its commercial fleet tires certified for the ...
Lauren Manufacturing.(Quality registrations)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Lauren Manufacturing (www.lauren.com), New Philadelphia, OH, announced that its iDea seal passed the AAMA 701/702-04 for ...
Compound and composition containing the same.(Patent News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. patent: 7,491,840 Issued: February 17, 2009 Inventors: Kazuya Tsukamoto, Nobumasa Arashiba, Akinori Nagatomo, Kouki Oogaki and Takeshi Kobayashi Assigned: Mitsui Chemicals Key statement: This invention provides a compound represented by ...
Halogenated polymers with new sequence distributions.(Patent News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. patent: 7,491,773 Issued: February 17, 2009 Inventors: Timothy Daniel Shaffer and David Yen-Lung Chung Assigned: ExxonMobil Key statement: The invention relates to new polymerization processes including diluents and hydrofluorocarbons and ...
Rubber blend for the inner liner of vehicle tires.(Patent News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. patent: 7,491,765 Issued: February 17, 2009 Inventor: Joern Krueger Assigned: Continental Key statement: A rubber blend containing (a) 40-100 phr (parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total rubber mass) of at least one halo ...
Adhesive for bonding to low surface energy surfaces.(Patent News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. patent: 7,491,434 Issued: February 17, 2009 Inventors: Ashish K. Khandpur, JingJing Ma, Mark D. Gehlsen, Bradley S. Momchilovich and John J. Stradinger Assigned: 3M Innovative Properties Key statement: A novel polymodal asymmetric ...
Tire tread reinforced with a silica of very low specific surface area.(Patent News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. patent: 7,491,767 Issued: February 17, 2009 Inventors: Olivier Durel and Roland Rauline Assigned: Michelin Key statement: A tire tread incorporating an elastomeric composition reinforced with silica, based on at least (phr = parts by ...
Sterilization study of Santoprene TPV.(Tech Service)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Santoprene TPV is a fully crosslinked thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) which has many unique properties over thermoset rubbers and other thermoplastic elastomers. Examples of these advantages include: * Low compression set; * thermoplastic processing; and * ...
Advanced rotor design: the four-wing N rotor--Part 2.(Process Machinery)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Rubber compounds have generally been mixed the same way for over 90 years since the introduction of the internal intensive mixer by Fernley H. Banbury in 1916. The internal intensive mixer has a number of advantages over the old two-roll mill mixing; the internal mixer is more productive, ...
Designing cure systems to eliminate restricted substances for ECO, ACM and AEM.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Rising petroleum prices have generated renewed interest in many methods to design fuels and lubricants for automotive applications using alternate sources such as flex and bio-based components. The development of such products and the ever increasing need for long-term temperature and ...
Measuring dynamic properties of rubbers filled with silanized silica nanofiller.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Although static mechanical properties have a great role in the service life of tire tread, enough attention should be paid to dynamic properties. In fact, wearing of tire along with its performance are two sides of the same coin. Fillers, when added to polymer systems, are known ...
Protection that lasts: the most effective protection against microbial contamination.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Many of the components present in rubber formulations, such as plasticizers, internal lubricants/process aids and fillers, are suitable carbon and energy sources for the growth of a wide variety of microorganisms. A common use of rubber parts is that of a seal to prevent the leakage of ...
Custom mixing, services.(Directory)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The following directory lists custom services suppliers. The first part lists custom rubber mixers along with plant locations, equipment, mixing capabilities and whether technical service and/or recipe development are offered. A directory of companies that offer various custom services to ...
175th technical meeting planned.(Meetings)(Conference news)(Calendar)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold its 175th technical meeting at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn in Fairlawn, OH, May 4-6. This meeting will include a celebration of the Division's 100th Anniversary, and will be followed by the 4th Rubber-Modified Asphalt ...
IRSG World Rubber Summit 2009 held.(Meetings)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The IRSG (International Rubber Study Group) World Summit 2009 will be held March 23-24 at the Expo Center in Singapore. Session 1 on the tire sector will feature the following presentations: "The future of the vehicle and tire industry," Robert Simmons, LMC International, U.K.; ...
Paper calls.(Meetings)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Center for the Polyurethanes Industry of the American Chemistry Council. The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council has issued a call for papers and posters to be presented at the Polyurethanes 2009 Technical Conference, to be held October 5-7 at the ...
Brazilian Association of Rubber Technology.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Brazilian Association of Rubber Technology will hold its 4th TPE/TPV Brazilian Conference May 14-15 ...
Chicago Rubber Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Chicago Rubber Group will hold its spring technical meeting on May 12 at the Grand Geneva ...
Connecticut Rubber Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Connecticut Rubber Group will hold its spring technical meeting on April 23. The CRG will hold its annual golf and tennis ...
Energy Rubber Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Energy Rubber Group will hold its spring technical meeting on May 28 at the Hilton ...
Fort Wayne Rubber & Plastics Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Fort Wayne Rubber & Plastics Group will hold its spring technical meeting on ...
Ohio Rubber Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Ohio Rubber Group will hold its spring technical meeting April 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg, OH. The ORG will hold a golf outing on ...
Quebec Elastomers Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Quebec Elastomers Group will hold a technical symposium on March 25. Further information is available from Thierry Montcalm (405) 546-2776; ...
West Michigan Rubber Group.(Rubber Group News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The West Michigan Rubber Group will hold a technical meeting on March 18 at the Radisson Inn in Grand Rapids, MI. The WMRG will hold a golf and salmon ...
Calendar.(Calendar)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Future Meetings/ Expos 2009 Akron, OH May 4-6 Pittsburgh, PA Oct. 13-15 www.rubber.org International Rubber Study Group, World Rubber Summit and Tyrexpo Asia, Singapore Expo Center, Singapore, Dr. Hidde P. Smit, tel.: +65 68372411; www. rubberstudy.com--March 23-24. ...
Injection molding.(Suppliers Showcase: Equipment)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The STI-1.6-220VR-V is a 220 metric ton vertical rubber injection press with a vacuum chamber that completely encompasses the heating platen. Vacuum conditions are generated within the chamber, resulting in a consistent vacuum throughout the mold prior to the injection cycle beginning, ...
Internal mixers.(Suppliers Showcase: Equipment)
Mar 01, 2009 ... This supplier of polymer processing equipment has upgraded the K1 size mixer within the Intermix family of processors. The K1 has also been incorporated into the Tecnolab line of laboratory and small scale production equipment. The KI features a 5.5 liter chamber volume and is equipped ...
Mixer rotor technology.(Suppliers Showcase: Equipment)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Mixing with the company's patent-pending MXI rotor technology is said to result in the same, if not better, mixing results being achieved, at less than half the cost of a comparable sized conventional intermeshing rotor mixer. There are generally two styles of mezzanine-based internal ...
Megaohm validator.(Suppliers Showcase: Instruments)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The company's megaohm validator is said to provide a simple method of ensuring that insulation resistance testers are operating properly. The megaohm validator provides DC resistances from 1 M[ohm] to 10G[ohm]. The megaohm validator is lightweight and portable, and can be used in the ...
Automated testing.(Suppliers Showcase: Instruments)
Mar 01, 2009 ... This manufacturer of testing equipment solutions designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components offers automated specimen handling solutions that are said to present many advantages over traditional, manually-operated testing systems. Automated specimen handling ...
Rheometer system.(Suppliers Showcase: Instruments)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The YR-1 rheometer is specifically designed to measure yield stress in fluids and semi-solids, including polymers. The YR-1 rheometer is said to give users the ability to measure their material's yield value instantly. Users simply select a test, lower ...
Rubber process analyzer.(Suppliers Showcase: Instruments)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The RPA 8000 rubber process analyzer is an advanced dynamic mechanical rheological test instrument designed to measure the properties of polymer and rubber compounds before, during and after the cure. The RPA 8000 is said to feature an impressive range in oscillation angle, oscillation ...
Non-blooming TPEs.(Suppliers Showcase: Materials)
Mar 01, 2009 ... This series of clear, non-blooming thermoplastic elastomers is claimed to eliminate oil bloom onto wood and other surfaces or materials by being completely oil-free. Because the TPEs are non-blooming, as well as latex- and phthalate-free (no plasticizers), thus making the material a great ...
Conductive carbon black.(Suppliers Showcase: Materials)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Sidcon conductive carbon blacks are available from this company. Sidcon 159 is a highly conductive carbon black. In trials, this grade is said to have shown greater conductivity than the competition, and is said to have been shown to replace competitive grades at reduced loadings, ...
Continental puts Setzer at car tire helm.(People in the News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Nikolai Setzer has assumed temporary management of Continental's Car Tire Division, in addition to the position he already holds as head of the Replacement Business Car and Light Truck Tire Division Europe and Africa. In his new function, he will report to board director Hans-Joachim ...
Momentive.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Momentive appointed Steven Delarge president and CEO of Silicones ...
Rhein Chemie.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Hector Diaz-Stringel has been named ...
Evonik.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... At Evonik, Martin Welp is now the head of ...
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations announced that Mike Rose retired as plant ...
Hercules Tire.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Hercules Tire appointed William Trimarco chief executive officer. He replaces ...
Titan Tire.(Management)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Titan Tire promoted Jeff Kramer to vice president of manufacturing engineering, and ...
Instron's Amaral honored by ASTM.(People in the News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Joseph Amaral, Instron's retired president, was awarded the John M. "Tim" Holt Lifetime Achievement Award from ASTM Committee E28. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to those members in recognition of consistent, longstanding service and exemplary contributions to the ...
Dyna-Mix appoints James Reszler GM.(People in the News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Dyna-Mix Custom Mixing appointed James Reszler vice president and general manager of its WV operations ....
Fatigue, stress and strain of rubber components.(Books)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Fatigue, stress and strain of rubber components. By J.T. Bauman. 240 pages. Price, $99.95. Hanser Gardner Publications, Cincinnati, OH (2008). This book covers the fatigue testing of specimens, curve fitting of equations to the test data, and the use of such equations in life ...
Wire and cable polymers.(Reports/Studies)
Mar 01, 2009 ... "Polymers in the European wire and cable industry" is a multi-client study that quantifies consumption of insulation and jacketing polymers in the whole EU27+3 European cables industry by country, by application and by polymer. A ...
Dust collectors.(Brochures)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Several in-depth technical papers describe the improved cleaning benefits available for reverse pulsejet baghouses used in dust collection applications. Patented technology eliminates ...