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Article: EP elastomers to be impacted by new technologies.
- Article from:
- Rubber World
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Since they were commercialized in the early 1960s, EP elastomers - EPM and EP(D)M - have experienced no sudden breathtaking, revolutionary developments. Rather, product portfolios have slowly evolved, driven both by improved technology and market demands, gradually expanding the range of performance properties of EP elastomers. Technological changes have been incremental, not revolutionary. Meanwhile, other polyolefins technologies have been developing at an accelerated pace, some resulting in commercialization of elastomeric products that can compete against EP elastomers in a number of applications.
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