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Goodyear sells off its specialty modifiers. (Your Business in Brief).


The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio, has sold its Eliokem specialty chemicals business (headquartered in France) to private investment firm Littlejohn & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Eliokem has a broad product portfolio that includes Chemigum NBR and Sunigum elastomers used as plastics modifiers.

Chemigum NBR elastomers are copolymers of acrylonitrile and butadiene used to add permanent flexibility to PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 and CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises.

CPE - Customer Premises Equipment
 blends. NBR offers good resistance to fuels, fats, and oils, Sunigum is a precrosslinked acrylate terpolymer with functional carboxylic car·box·yl  
n.
The univalent radical, COOH, the functional group characteristic of all organic acids.



[carb(o)- + ox(y)- + -yl.
 groups that make it compatible with a wide range of polar resins, including PVC, CPE, TPU, ABS, copolyester TPEs, EVA Eva

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 and EMA. This elastomer allows users to make softer grades of TPEs with superior weatherability.
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Publication:Plastics Technology
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2002
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