Articles from Rubber World (July 1, 2005)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A specialist rubber manufacturing business has been set up in South Wales, U.K., with the help of a 475,000 [pounds sterling] funding package, safeguarding 16 jobs.			100
ACI Global (formerly Par Advance Technologies), London, U.K., has completed the acquisition of Green Machine Investments Ltd. by issuing the balance of the total of 315 million shares of common stock agreed to be issued in exchange for all of the shares in Green Machine Investments Ltd.			124
Acme-Hardesty.			21
Adhesive cartridge system.			98
Adhesives.			29
Air spring heat sink.	Samples, Bob		64
American Quality Assessors, LLC, audited the Tallapoosa, GA, custom mixing facility of Robbins LLC.			34
Amorphous silica particles comprising boron.	Samples, Bob		57
Anisotropic conductive sheet.	Samples, Bob		61
Anti-caking/carrier aids.			79
Antimicrobial articles and compositions made from non-silicone vulcanized rubber.	Samples, Bob		68
Auxiliary equipment.		Directory	196
BASF AG plans to expand its Pharma Solutions business by acquiring the Swiss fine chemicals company Orgamol S.A.			61
BASF Coatings.			25
BASF has acquired Huntsman's global toluene diisocyanate (TDI) business.			43
BASF signed an agreement with Akzo Nobel for BASF to acquire the shares in BASF Akzo Nobel (BAN).			46
BASF-YPC Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture between BASF and Sinopec, has started commercial production at a steam cracker, as well as nine downstream plants at its Nanjing site in China as planned.			72
Bayer and Shell complete polyols license agreement.			89
Bayer MaterialScience AG.			75
Belt conveyor oven.			106
BP and Nova Chemicals have signed binding agreements to merge their European styrenic polymers businesses into a 50:50 joint venture.			43
Bridgestone brand Turanza EL[400.sub.02] tires are original equipment on the 2005 Volkswagen Jetta.			36
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, has expanded its Firestone Transforce commercial light truck tire line.			32
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories.			9
Cabot, Boston, MA, has received notification from the European Commission.			26
Cabot, Boston, MA, plans to build a specialty carbon black unit at its plant in the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area.			83
Calendar.		Calendar	582
Cartridge dust collectors.			117
Cascade Gasket and Manufacturing.			27
Celanese.			39
Coatings extruder.			126
Coatings Research Institute, Eastern Michigan University.			71
Computer modeling of wire and cable extrusion.	McCaslin, E. Alan		3612
Conformal coatings enhance product surface.	Hardy, Alan		939
Connecticut Rubber Group.			196
Continental Tire North America.			80
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			27
Crain Communication Ltd.			135
Crompton, Great Lakes Chemical finalize merger.			69
Crompton, Middlebury, CT, has completed the divestiture of its Refined Products business to Sun Capital Partners Group.			51
Crosslinkable elastomer composition.	Samples, Bob		64
Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, will construct a facility in China for manufacturing the standard monomer methyl methacrylate (MMA), as well as various methacrylate specialties.			171
Desenco announced the signing of a lifetime strategic supplier contract with Parker Hannifin Composite Sealing Systems.			20
Dow Chemical has completed the acquisition of Pacific Epoxy Ltd., a manufacturer of converted epoxy resin in Korea, from Saehan Industries.			51
Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, reaffirmed its commitment to leadership in the specialty elastomers marketplace following the formal dissolution of the DuPont-Dow Elastomers (DDE) nine-year joint venture.			76
Dow, Midland, MI, announced that it has ended force majeure for vinyl acetate monomer at the Texas City, TX, plant, which is owned by Union Carbide, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow.			90
Elastomeric rubbers.			108
Electron beam processing of elastomers.	Drobny, Jiri George		2988
Erie Plastics.			8
Extrusion systems.			145
Extrusion systems.			104
Fitz Chem.			7
Foamex International.			37
Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer, Exton, PA, has appointed Lipscomb Chemical.			18
Goodyear chooses Copeland to lead South Pacific Tyres.			163
Goodyear sells Wingtack business to Sartomer.			96
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			116
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			15
Guill Tool & Engineering.			12
High damping elastomer composition.	Samples, Bob		66
Indian Petrochemicals Ltd., a Reliance Industries Ltd. Group company, has joined the International Rubber Study Group.			20
Infrared chamber heater.			148
Injection molding press.			90
Injection/compression.			87
ITWC.			26
KVP.			8
Laser line sensor system.			206
Lauren Manufacturing.			7
Lianda announced a 60% increase in capacity at Yaxing Chemical Group in Weifang, China.			19
Liquid injection molding.			135
Machinery and equipment suppliers.		Directory	11516
Menasha, Neenah, WI, has signed an agreement to sell Poly Hi Solidur.			34
Method for preparing graft copolymer of methylmethacrylate-butadiene-styrene having superior anti-stress whitening properties.	Samples, Bob		56
Molds.			90
New machinery suppliers.		Directory	4385
Nicholas Plastics.			15
Obituaries.			11
Ohio Rubber & Plastics Group.			30
Philadelphia Rubber Group.			72
Pipe extrusion system.			112
Plymouth Rubber, Canton, MA, has voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11.			34
Presses.			80
Process aid additive.			135
Process and apparatus for improving and controlling the vulcanization of natural and synthetic rubber compounds.	Samples, Bob		67
PTPN II Tanjung Morawa.			29
Rapra Technology hosts TPE 2005.			762
Reactive Polymers Fundamentals and Applications.			55
Rebuilding in-house capabilities.			2429
Regloplas.			8
Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, is investing EUR 2.8 million in the engineering of a new production facility for polymer-bound chemicals (Rhenogran) as part of its joint venture in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao.			84
Rotation shaft seal.	Samples, Bob		125
Rotors.			65
Rubber consumption to grow 4%.			593
Rubber Handbook for Molded, Extruded, Lathe Cut and Cellular Products, 6th Edition.			99
Rubber injection molding.			114
Rubber machinery.			89
Rubber strip lagging.			118
Shares of Michelin & Cie, the world's largest tiremaker, fell more than 3% after Formula One cars using the company's tires pulled out of the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on safety concerns.			116
Shock absorbing trailer hitch.	Samples, Bob		45
Silanes.			79