Devulcanization process patented by Goodyear.Devulcanization process patented by Goodyear Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron Akron (ăk`rən), city (1990 pop. 223,019), seat of Summit co., NE Ohio, on the Little Cuyahoga River; inc. 1865. Once the heart of the nation's rubber industry, Akron still contains the headquarters of some rubber corporations and chemical and , OH, has patented a process for devulcanizing cured rubber products. "The recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. of cured rubber has proven to be very challenging because once vulcanized vul·ca·nize tr.v. vul·ca·nized, vul·ca·niz·ing, vul·ca·niz·es To improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat , rubber cannot be easily melted melt v. melt·ed, melt·ing, melts v.intr. 1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat. 2. and reformed into other products," said Larry Hunt, who discovered the process with co-inventor Ron Kovalak. Goodyear's process preserves the rubber's chemical composition and molecular weight, leaving the rubber suitable for recompounding and recuring into new products. |
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