Another casualty.The news that Teknor Apex was phasing out its rubber division was a surprise. The company said that the industry-wide trends of off-shore manufacturing and the introduction of new materials replacing rubber in applications, coupled with the high cost of oil, had the division operating at a loss for some time. The company said they saw no opportunity to turn this part of their business around. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have hard to look at this as just another casualty in the globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of markets. Teknor has been a solid contributor to the rubber industry for over 75 years. They have been active in the national associations, as well at the local robber group levels, with dedicated personnel and support. I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in sure this was not an easy decision for company president Jonathan Fain fain adv. 1. Happily; gladly: "I would fain improve every opportunity to wonder and worship, as a sunflower welcomes the light" Henry David Thoreau. 2. and his managers to make. The thermoplastic elastomer Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), sometimes referred to as thermoplastic rubbers, are a class of copolymers or a physical mix of polymers (usually a plastic and a rubber) which consist of materials with both thermoplastic and elastomeric properties. business of Teknor Apex was not part of the robber division and is not affected by the closure. While I'm on the subject of casualties, I want to give you a heads-up about a change you'll find in the magazine as you go through this issue. As you peruse pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- the Suppliers Showcase and Literature sections along with the advertisements, you will notice there are no more circle numbers. The circle numbers represented a number on the reader service cards that were bound into the magazine, usually pages 9 and 10 and the corresponding two pages in the back of the magazine, that would change depending on the number of pages in the issue. But technological advances and the accepted reliance of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and e-mail have made us replace what used to be a useful tool. Readers will note that the circle numbers have been replaced with an e-mail contact or the company's web address for quicker access to the information they are seeking. This wasn't an easy decision for us to make, either. The reader service cards made this magazine the largest inquiry producing publication in the rubber industry. We also used the reader service inquiries editorially, as we could monitor the interest in various products, materials and machinery by how many requests were made by the readers. One inquiry I won't miss is the call from a reader complaining that we left four pages out of their issue. The cards were never numbered, because they weren't pages per se, but the post office officials made us count them anyway. |
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