Articles from Rubber World (September 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2.2% increase in tire shipments predicted.			495
2005 Annual Book of ASTM Standards--Section 9--Rubber.			51
A federal grand jury indicted two former executives at German chemical maker Bayer AG for allegedly taking part in an international price-fixing scheme that drove up the costs of rubber chemicals used to make shoes, tires and other products.			134
A recently secured order has enabled Chronos Richardson, Nottingham, U.K., to further extend its 15-year business relationship with Empresa Industrial de Barracha S.A., Marinha Grande, Portugal.			170
Adhesion between rubber components.	Samples, Bob		47
Advanced Polymer Alloys, Wilmington, DE, a division of Ferro, announced that TPE Solutions, a Shirley, MA-based distributor of thermoplastic elastomers, has joined the APA worldwide distribution network.			43
American Tire Distributors, Charlotte, NC, has acquired 100% of the stock of Wholesale Tire Distributors of Wyoming and Wholesale Tire Distributors of Idaho.			45
Ashland Specialty Chemical's Thermoset Resins.			15
Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association.			51
BASF Coatings and the Elastogran Group have signed an agreement on long-term and far-reaching cooperation in the coating of wood trim parts for the automotive industry.			76
BASF/Degussa partner to sell PUR catalysts.			64
Batch inclusion bags.			96
Between-rails roadway for road-rail crossings.	Samples, Bob		63
Bridgestone.			50
Calendar.		Calendar	581
Carbon blacks.			72
Coating application systems.			58
Columbian Chemicals received approval from the Phelps Dodge board of directors to proceed with plans to build a greenfield carbon black manufacturing facility in the Camacari Pole, a chemical complex in the Bahia state of Brazil.			69
Control Equipment, Strongsville, OH, Demag Plastics Group's machine sales representative for parts of the midwest, has merged with The Solution Group, Willoughby, OH.			34
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			11
Correction.		Correction Notice	146
Davis-Standard, LLC, announced the acquisition of Merritt Extruder of Hamden, CT.			47
Deflashing machines.			91
Division awards Place scholarship to Blue.			196
Dow Corning.			12
Dual shaft mixer system.			158
Dust collectors.			111
Dynamic testing using oscillatory shear and dynamic compression.	Bradnick, Gary		3003
Dynatek Dalta.			10
Dynatek Dalta.			9
Eastbank Trading.			19
Effects of aspect ratio on tire performance.	Ghoreishi, Mir Hamid Reza		1985
Eight-component blends.			136
Elastomeric spring assembly for a railcar and method of making same.	Samples, Bob		17
Electrically conductive thermoplastic elastomer composite.	Samples, Bob		67
Eurotherm.			11
Extrusion crossheads.			125
Floor covering of an elastically deformable material.	Samples, Bob		34
Foamex International.			48
Focus Management Group USA, Tampa, FL, has been appointed financial advisor to Plymouth Rubber in its bankruptcy proceedings.			37
Gasket, seal sales to reach $8.6 billion.			62
Goodyear completes sale of Wingtack to Sartomer.			123
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			12
Graco, Minneapolis, MN, is combining its reaction injection molding business at Gusmer, Lakewood, NJ, with the RIM business of Liquid Control's Decker Industries, Palm City, FL.			33
Grey House Publishing and Impact Publishing, Manchester, VT, have purchased the Rauch Guides.			23
Hankook Tire, Seoul, South Korea, will supply tires to General Motors.			15
Implantable device for injecting medical substances.	Samples, Bob		62
Improving thermal conductivity and service life in bladder compounds.	Edwards, Charles		4446
Injection molding tools.			79
Kanebo Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, announced it will quit the polyester resin business by selling its resin manufacturing subsidiary to Mitsubishi Chemical.			32
Lauren International.			9
Liotta receives ASTM Award.			122
Liquid silicone rubber.			82
Load/deflection machine.			165
Magnetorheological nanocomposite elastomer for releasable attachment applications.	Samples, Bob		86
Many benefits with Rubber Division membership.			188
Method for processing elastomers.	Samples, Bob		44
Michelin announced it is looking to invest in a factory in Egypt, following the failure of its attempts to purchase the country's public Transport and Engineering, Trenco.			68
Milacron.			11
Molding process.			81
Moll Industries.			17
Neopan Bartar, Mashad, Iran, has ratified a contract concerning the delivery of a complete MDF plant from the Siempelkamp Group.			96
Obituaries.		Obituary	23
OM Group.			17
One-part solvent-based adhesive for bonding polymer materials.	Samples, Bob		49
Paper call.			68
Pittsburgh hosts Rubber Division.			3932
Pneumatic tire including belt cushion section and having conductive path between belt layer and carcass and method of making same.	Samples, Bob		69
Polymer Group, North Charleston, SC, has ruled out the possibility of a sale of the company, but the specialty textile manufacturer is still weighing other options as part of an effort to boost shareholder value.			52
Polyurethane recycling.			109
Preformers.			88
Preparation of starch reinforced rubber and use thereof in tires.	Samples, Bob		61
Process advantages by improved rotor cooling--part 1.	Keuter, Harald		1975
Production, classification and properties of natural rubber--part 2.	Waddell, Walter H.		6305
Rhein Chemie/Lanxess begins U.S. restructuring.			88
Rogers.			20
Scorch-resistant peroxide.			148
Shape design process of engineering products and pneumatic tire designed using the present design process.	Samples, Bob		46
Silicone foam products.			129
Silmix.			8
Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC, Alpharetta, GA, will build the previously announced world-scale sulfone polymers production unit at its plant site in Marietta, OH.			61
Thermoplastic PUs.			129
Thermoplastic vulcanizates.			100
Tire release agents.			112
Tire shipments.			88
Tire with silica reinforced carcass ply and/or circumferential carcass belt of a natural rubber-rich, silica reinforcement-rich, rubber composition.	Samples, Bob		48
Vinyl frame manufacturer HT Troplast, Frankfurt, Germany, plans to sell its rubber foam unit.			25
Watch your price increase.	Smith, Don R.		368
West Pharmaceutical Services.			13
Westlake Chemical.			9
Wilbert Plastics Services.			14
Wiper blade for windows of motor vehicles.	Samples, Bob		61
Worth noting.			60