Articles from Rubber World (April 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
3-D Service's Air Compression Division.			12
Acton International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air-Boss of America, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, has been awarded a $2.8 million contract to supply nuclear biological and chemical protective gloves to the U.S. military.			47
Air Compressor Division of 3-D Services.			15
Akron Rubber Group.			57
An Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers, Second Edition.			60
Automated accurate rubber strip stacking--part 2.	Slone, Michael G.		1154
Awards announced.			164
Blue Ridge Rubber Group.			33
Bosch Rexroth AG.			13
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories.			16
Calendar.		Calendar	744
Caprolactones.			42
Carbon black batching system.			39
Carbon black.			37
Carbon blacks.			111
Chicago Rubber Group.			32
Connecticut Rubber Group.			176
Continental AG offers $275 million to buy Phoenix AG.			78
Cooper Tire & Rubber, Findlay, OH, and its subsidiary Mickey Thompson Performance Tires and Wheels, announced a sponsorship and supply agreement.			23
Cooper Tire may sell its automotive business group.			90
Crompton's Urethanes.			28
Crompton, Middlebury, CT, entered into a plea agreement with the United States of America with respect to a criminal antitrust investigation of the company by the U.S. Department of Justice.			187
Crosslinking and reinforcement of silica/silane-filled rubber compounds.	Luginsland, Hans-Detlef		3771
Crown reinforcement for radial tire.	Samples, Bob		64
Cryogenic flash removal.			160
Degussa AG's Coatings & Colorants Business Unit.			31
Degussa appoints Rhein Chemie exclusive distributor.			80
Demag Plastics Group is now represented by Pacific Plastic Systems in parts of the southwest U.S. and the border area with Mexico.			51
Dieffenbacher Automation.			31
Dry material dispensing.			63
DuPont Engineering Polymers.			14
Eagle-Picher Automotive.			21
Eight reel rewinder.			127
Elastomer additives.			70
Electric belt conveyor oven.			187
Eliokem.			51
Energy Rubber Group.			24
Engineered Plastic Components.			12
Extreme makeover.	Smith, Don R.		365
Firestone Building Products.			12
Firestone Building Products.			13
Firestone Building Products.			26
FMC Lithium.			42
Gearless drives.			69
Glass run including fine lubricant powder for reducing noise.	Samples, Bob		53
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe, Brussels, Belgium, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron. OH, announced a ten-year business transformation outsourcing program worth an estimated 50 million euros in cost savings in the first two years alone.			66
Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, OH, plans to acquire the remainder of Sava Tires d.o.o., a joint venture tire manufacturing company in Kranj, Slovenia.			74
Great Lakes Chemical, Indianapolis, IN, and Laurel Industries, a part of the chemicals operations (OxyChem) of Occidental Petroleum, will combine their antimony businesses as part of a joint venture to develop, produce and market antimony-based flame retardants, synergists and catalysts.			63
Heitmann chosen to lead Lanxess.			409
HXNBR for oil well specialties and roll applications.	Campomizzi, Ezio C.		2749
Hydrogenated styrene TPEs.			174
Icon Polymer Group.			22
Increase in tread rubber shipments.			77
Industrial urethane adhesive.			77
Infrared heater systems.			188
International Specialty Products.			69
L. Michael Burke, Jr., and Trocia Clasp, graduate students at the University of Akron, were awarded Student Presentation Awards.			31
Library offers many resources.			133
Liquid silicone products.			143
Low-profile tensioner for a conveyor belt scraper.	Samples, Bob		20
Mold-making compounds.			35
New fiscal health achieved by Division.	Laursen, Christopher		339
Pneumatic tire having hollow particles in base rubber.	Samples, Bob		41
Pneumatic tire.	Samples, Bob		53
Polymer solutions.			121
Polyurethane additives.			41
Portable co-extruder.			142
Power transmission belt having high modulus adhesive rubber member.	Samples, Bob		60
Precision Roll Grinders.			31
Preferred Rubber Compounding.			31
Premier Material Concepts.			30
R.T. Vanderbilt.			12
Racing tire tread rubber composition.	Samples, Bob		43
Rhein Chemic.			19
Rubber Division meets in Michigan.		Calendar	1774
Rubber manufacturing.			111
Rubber nanocomposites via solution and melt intercalation.	Pannikottu, Abraham		4227
Semi-permanent releases.			140
Silicone-enhanced PU.			160
Stoner.			15
Sumimoto Rubber Industries.			23
Switch from RSS to TSR slowing.			588
Synthetic rubber elastomers as replacements for NR latex.	Samples, Bob		57
Tire having improved endurance.	Samples, Bob		47
USM Hudson International.			17
Water-based mold release.			139
Watertight connector and a method for mounting it.	Samples, Bob		26
Wisconsin Rubber Group.			25
Yokohama Rubber Ltd.			77