Rapra hosts rubber bonding conference.Rubber Bonding 2006, organized by Rapra Technology Ltd., will be held February 21-22 at the Holiday Inn City Center in Dusseldorf, Germany. Experts from North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe will present the latest adhesives and bonding techniques, according to Rapra. Session 1 on rubber to metal bonding will include the following presentations: "Comparisons and contrasts in rubber-metal bonding using eight polymer types," R.J. Del Vecchio, Technical Consulting Services, and Ernest Ferro, Jr., Corry Rubber; "High-performance rubber-to-metal adhesives designed for severe environments," Thad Plasczynski, David Kistner, Stefan Dehnicke, Bernhard Krtsch and Guillaume Carre, Rohm & Haas; and "Pipeline interface failure," Marek Gnatowski, Polymer Engineering Ltd., Canada. Session 2 on bonding thermoplastic elastomers will include the following presentations: "Applying generic PSAs to TPEs," Norman Mills, Boss Rubber Technologies, Australia; and "Novel thermoplastic A polymer material that turns to liquid when heated and becomes solid when cooled. There are more than 40 types of thermoplastics, including acrylic, polypropylene, polycarbonate and polyethylene. vulcanizates that exhibit excellent adhesion to engineering thermoplastics through melt processing," Justin Crafton, Gary Lawrence and Rai Mohan, Advanced Elastomer elastomer (ĭlăs`təmər), substance having to some extent the elastic properties of natural rubber. The term is sometimes used technically to distinguish synthetic rubbers and rubberlike plastics from natural rubber. Systems. Session 3 on bonding anti-vibration systems will include the following presentations: "Rubber-to-substrate bonding agents for antivibration systems with particular reference to bonding performance under new test criteria," Torsten Wiss and Wolfgang Weimar, Henkel, Germany; and "One-component bonding agents--technology for anti-vibration automotive parts production," Aissa Benarous, Chemical Innovations Ltd., U.K. Session 4 on innovative rubber bonding systems will include the following presentations: "New chemicalfree technology for rubber bonding with special UV-light and no primer use," Emil Schmid, Tack-Service, Germany; and "Tacky tape--a new approach to dry adhesive bonding," Ewen Kellar, TWI Ltd., and Peter Bain and Giovanni Manfre, De-Bonding Ltd., U.K. Session 5 on rubber-to-cord adhesion will include the following presentations: "Keynote address: Tire cord adhesion," William van Ooij, University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2] ; "Study on cord/rubber interface at elevated temperatures by new fatigue method," Masoud Jamshidi and Faramarz AfsharTaromi, Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), formerly named Tehran Polytechnic and Niroo Engineering Consultants, Iran; and "Reactive impregnation impregnation /im·preg·na·tion/ (im?preg-na´shun) 1. fertilization. 2. saturation (1). impregnation 1. the act of fertilizing or rendering pregnant. 2. saturation. of glass cords," Chris Stevens and R. Knowles, NGF NGF abbr. nerve growth factor NGF nerve growth factor. Europe Ltd.; P. Martin, NGF Canada Ltd.; and M. Akiyama, Nippon Sheet and Glass, Japan. Session 6 on applications of rubber bonding will include the following presentation: "Automotive bonding applications," Christoph Paulo, Rhodia Silicones, France. The registration fee for this course is EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 1,050, and EUR 850 per delegate for companies sending more than one delegate. Further information is available from Sharon Garrington, tel.: +44 (0) 1939 250383; fax: +44 (0) 1939 251118. |
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