Articles from Rubber World (April 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A study in the dynamic response of GPCO having an ultra-low [T.sub.g].	Harber, Samuel C.		3828
Adhesion promoters.			146
Advances in CM technology for thermoset applications.	Laakso, Ray		6441
Allied Waste Industries has designated Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire and Bridgestone Bandag as its preferred suppliers.			35
An interview with Tony Frencham: Dow Footwear Solutions seeks market intimacy.		Interview	1453
Analyzing tire rubbers in the DMA 8000.	Menard, Kevin P.		784
Antioxidants.			103
Automatic batching.			90
Automatic control and monitoring system for splice overlapping tolerance in textile ply.			189
Automotive thermosets.			106
Bag filling technology.			87
Bayer.			24
Belt imports slowing.			49
Black and Old or Black and Gold? Rubber in the Americas.			4518
Bridgestone Firestone.			26
Calendar.		Calendar	755
Chemtura (www.chemtura.com), Middlebury, CT, has acquired the stock of Baxenden Chemicals Ltd., owned by Croda International, in an all-cash transaction for GBP 13 million, increasing its ownership to 100%.			58
Chloroprene rubber.			32
Compounding line.			141
Conjugated diolefin (co)polymer rubber.			61
Connecticut Rubber Group.			30
Continental said that CFO Alan Hippe will take over the reins of the PLT Tire division from Manfred Wennemer, who previously headed this division in addition to chairing the Continental AG executive board.			76
Cooper Tire.			30
Core-shell particles synthesized through controlled free radical polymerization.			202
Custom mixing.			39
Davis-Standard.			34
Designing TPV tubes, ducts and bellows.			2259
DeWal Industries.			14
Dow Corning.			10
Dow Polyurethanes expands capacity.			51
DuPont (www.automotive.dupont.com), Wilmington, DE, announced that its reinforced Zytel nylon resin has replaced steel in exhaust system parts on all Volkswagen vehicles.			31
Education money.	Smith, Don R.		398
Effective this month, Bayer MaterialScience (www.bayermaterialscience.com), Leverkusen, Germany.			29
Excel Polymers.			14
Fluorochemical technology.			67
Gas-fired walk-in oven.			158
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			27
Goodyear, Pacific Gas & Electric sign contract.			71
H.M. Royal (www.hmroyal.com), Trenton, NJ, has been appointed by Elkem Materials, Pittsburgh, PA, as their exclusive distributor in the United States for Elkem's Sidistar to the non-tire rubber industry.			61
HNBR: fulfilling requirements of auto and heavy duty vehicle applications.	Nasreddine, Victor; Pazur, Richard J.		4027
Invista (www.invista.com) has signed a technology licensing agreement with Sichuan Tianhua Fubang Chemical.			23
Johnson Rubber.			34
Kramer is CFO for Lanxess China.			207
Laboratory shear mixer.			99
Lanxess.			82
Lehigh Technologies (www.lehightechnologies.com), Naples, FL, a manufacturer of ultra-fine engineered rubber powder, and Malcolm Pirnie, an environmental engineering firm, announced the results of a study on the environmental benefits that accrue by using recycled rubber powder as a complement to virgin natural and synthetic rubber in tire manufacturing.			107
Linear position sensors.			83
Materials testing accessories.			47
Mid-Atlantic Rubber & Plastics Group.			101
Mold release coating.			144
Multipurpose extruder.			78
New England Rubber & Plastics Group.			35
Nova Chemicals.			16
Ohio Rubber Group.			92
Oligomers/monomers.			79
Paper calls.			644
Parts measuring system.			144
Performance Fibers (www.performancefibers.com), Richmond, VA, has completed its acquisition of Invista's North America tire cord and polyester industrial filament businesses, including four plants in the U.S. and Mexico that manufacture industrial polyester, nylon 6 and tire cord fabric.			48
PMA meets in San Antonio, TX.			692
Polymer cure system.			97
Polymer modifiers.			68
Polymer stabilizers.			49
Powder rubber subjected to treatment of making unevenness on surface thereof and rubber composition using the same and tire.			148
Prepreg, production process thereof and molded article.			128
RMA predicts no growth for tire shipments.			594
Rubber products.			103
Sartomer.			41
Schoff is 2008 Tess award winner.			163
Self-repairing materials.			108
Smithers Group.			40
The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association announced a global multi-year partnership with Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire and Bridgestone Firestone Canada.			47
The Zero Defects Option.			85
Thermoplastic elastomer.			147
Thermoset polyesters.			101
Tire breaker strip application method and tire fabricated therefrom.			107
U.S. auto market for AEs to reach 14,000 mt.			217
Urethanes.			84
Vystar begins NR latex evaluation trials.			74
West Michigan Rubber Group.			53
Yokohama Rubber (www.yrc.co.jp), Tokyo, Japan, announced that the Tokyo Customs Office accepted the company's application for import injunction of counterfeit products of its "DNA S. drive" high-performance tires for passenger cars due to a charge that the counterfeit products infringing Yokohama Rubber's design rights were sold in Japan.			70