Articles from Rubber World (September 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Advancements in thermoplastic building.	Armstrong, Dean		638
Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, CA, a manufacturer of atomic force microscopes, announced its collaboration with the U.K.-based TARRC (Tun Abdul Razak Research Center) of the Malaysian Rubber Board to develop new capabilities for studying elastomers, including the effects of nanofillers using AFM.			60
Best Mfg. and DuPont team up to make gloves.			55
Bridgestone Aircraft Tire (China), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Aircraft Tire, opened a plant to retread aircraft tires.			21
Burning rubber.	Smith, Don R.		432
Business courses offered at meeting.			715
C.W. Brabender Instruments, South Hackensack, NJ, appointed AB Chemicals to join its team.			23
Cabot will expand its carbon black facility in the Tianjin Economic Technical Development Area in China.			50
Calendar.		Calendar	598
Cereplast.			26
Cleveland hosts Rubber Division.			5177
Continental Tire North America, Charlotte, NC, announced the official launch of Continental University at its Mount Vernon, IL, facility.			63
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			45
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			18
Davis Standard.			25
Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, and Solvay S.A., Brussels, Belgium, announced an agreement to create a joint venture for the construction of a hydrogen peroxide plant in Thailand.			51
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex and Sustainable Solutions, Wagoner, OK, have signed an agreement through which the companies will pool product development and marketing resources to serve new and existing applications using regenerated leather and other post-industrial waste.			73
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex.			13
Dr. Stephen Chen named UA Polymer Science dean.			422
DuPont Engineering Polymers.			41
Dynamically vulcanized alloy innerliners.	Tracey, Donald S.; Tsou, Andy H.		2212
Elastomers.			141
Ethanol-free silane.			155
Extrusion tooling.			193
ExxonMobil Chemical.			45
Fluoroelastomers.			36
Foreign Tire Sales, Union, NJ, announced a recall of about 255,000 Chinese-made, steel-belted radial tires that it imported into the United States.		Financial report	76
Forming mold.			82
Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, OH, completed the sale of its Engineered Products business to EPD, an entity sponsored by Carlyle Partners IV, for $1.475 billion.			39
High shear mixers.			208
Hydraulic crosshead.			63
Industrial weighing.			146
Japanese tire market.			68
Kraiburg TPE.			47
Leak testing.			104
Lehigh Technologies.			46
Mandrel release coating.			73
Meter, mix, dispense systems.			91
Meter/mix/dispensing.			97
Method for forming a pneumatic tire.			154
Method of computing energy loss generated in viscoelastic material and method for evaluating energy loss of golf bah by using method of computing energy loss.			105
Michelin N. America acquires Oliver Rubber.			69
Michelin North America.			62
Microban International Ltd., Huntersviile, NC, and Dow Reichhoid Specialty Latex, Research Triangle Park, NC, announced an agreement to combine Microban antimicrobial technology with patented PolySaf polymer technology from Dow Reichhold for gypsum wallboard used in residential and commercial construction.			80
Mold release products.			114
Multi-purpose extruder.			81
Naphthenie base oils.			66
No growth predicted for 2007 tire shipments.			709
NSF gives research grant to University of Akron.			75
Online viscometer.			173
Pirelli.			111
Polybutenes.			156
Polymer Group.			15
PU foam surfactants.			88
Resorcinol.			109
Rohm and Haas.			45
Roll compounds.			101
Rubber composition for a tire and tire using the same.			144
Rubber composition for a tire tread.			210
Rubber injection molding.			195
Rubber reclaim.			133
Sartomer.			20
Semi-permanent mold release.			126
Seven Malaysian manufacturers of nitrile gloves have filed their responses to the U.S. International Trade Commission to challenge claims of patent infringements leveled against them by U.S.-based Tillotson.			118
Silicone processing.			79
Solutia, St. Louis, MO, announced that its subsidiary, Flexsys SpA, has completed its acquisition of the rubber chemicals business of Chemetall GmbH.			73
Standards Testing Laboratories.			12
Talcs.			106
Technical courses scheduled.			763
Temperature controllers.			151
Testing accessories.			36
The Competition Bureau of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, announced that DuPont Performance Elastomers LLC pleaded guilty and was fined $4 million.			41
The Dow Jones U.S. Tire Index is up about 140% over the past 12 months.			34
The Italian vehicle manufacturer Fiat has given original equipment approval for the use of Continental tires.			20
Thermoplastic elastomer.			152
Tiebarless machine.			112
Tire conveying systems.			173
Tire retreading--the rationale and a review of technologies.	Bender, David L.		4997
Tire technology--recent advances and future trends.	Chandra, Arup K.		4697
Trends in tire design and the impact on reinforcing fillers in radial car tires.	Schwarz, David L.		3886
Ultrasonic flow meter.			69
Worldwide Rubber Statistics.			128