Articles from Rubber World (February 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Akrochem.			11
American Tire.			35
Apollo Tyres.			25
Apollo Tyres.			27
Avon Rubber plc's protection business (www.avonrubber.com), Cadillac, MI, has been awarded a $1.1 million research and development contract with the U.S. Government.			33
Black reinforcing agents.			87
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire (www. bridgestone-firestone.com), Nashville, TN, announced that Bridgestone brand Dueler H/L 400 tires are original equipment.			30
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC.			84
Bridgestone increases Thai plant production.			87
Calendar.		Calendar	631
Cannon USA (www.cannonusa.com), Grand Rapids, MI, the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Cannon Group, and ESCO (Edge-Sweets) signed an agreement of reciprocal product's distribution within the U.S. and Canada.			89
Carbon black.			92
Chem Polymer U.S. (www.chempolymer.com), a manufacturer of engineering thermoplastics used in making components for automobiles and industrial products, is closing its Fort Myers, FL, compounding plant.			51
Chemtura names Wedinger chief business officer.			56
Co-Rotating Twin Screw Extruders.			83
Continental AG.			27
Cooper Tire & Rubber (www.coopertire.com), Findlay, OH, announced it will partner with Professional Bull Riders (PBR).			45
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			35
Cooper Tire and Rubber.			19
Custom extrusions.			91
Design a seal.			2348
Diaphragm pumps.			137
Dow Corning.			50
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex.			21
Elastomer compounds.			58
Everything clean?	Eberhard, Dieter		677
ExxonMobil Chemical.			69
Flame retardants.			75
FT-IR microscopes.			69
Fuel and oil resistance achieved in a 100% F-LSR.	Pagliani, Marco; Bravais, Emmanuel; Tonge, Lauren		2182
Gas-heated walk-in oven.			143
Goodyear cuts back production in France.			67
Goodyear names Kihn chief technical officer.			353
Green Rubber.			15
HallStar expanding expertise in ester chemistry: an interview with John J. Paro.		Interview	1661
Hankook Tire (www.hankooktireusa.com), Seoul, South Korea, is supplying 70,000 tires for Volkswagen AG's Tiguan compact sport utility vehicles.			30
High performance silicas.			118
Hot set determination.			159
Hydrocarbon rubber.			48
Impact testing system.			88
IRSG predicts slower growth in rubber consumption.			1062
Kum Yang Ltd., based in Seoul, South Korea, and represented in the U.S. and Canada by Rit-Chem (www.rit-chem.com), now offers flame retardants for the rubber and plastic industry.			39
Lanxess (www.lanxess.com) has named Comercial Vicsol as its newest distributor of polybutadiene rubber products.			45
Lightweight composites.			130
Low Mooney viscosity HNBR polymers with high acrylonitrile content.	Nasreddine, Victor; Dato, John; Mezger, Martin; Schaefer, Dirk; Wassen, Juergen		3062
Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments (www.malvern.com) has acquired Viscotek, a provider of chromatography solutions for the characterization of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins.			35
Nova Chemicals.			21
Nynas.			13
Ohio Rubber & Plastics Group.			34
Pelletized carbon black.			76
Performance additive.			160
Pigments.			83
Pneumatic rubber tire having annular rubber strip containing electrically conductive element bonded to its inner surface.			259
PolyOne (www.polyone.com), Cleveland, OH, a global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, has reorganized its Polymer Coating Systems into two business units.			81
Polyurethanes seminar planned.			904
Recycling carrot.	Smith, Don R.		466
Ross Mixing.			12
Sartomer.			40
Southern Rubber Group.			28
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (www.lanxess.com) is to relocate production of rubber chemicals from Thane (Indian state of Maharastra) to Jhagadia in the state of Gujarat.			84
Spectroscopy.			69
Stabilization of millable polyurethane rubber.	Jablonowski, Tom; Ahnemiller, Jim		3697
Synthetic branched polyisoprenes and process for obtaining them.			186
Technical seminars scheduled.			734
The Thermoplastic Elastomer Division of Teknor Apex (www.teknorapex.com), Pawtucket, RI, has appointed Channel Prime Alliance, Des Moines, IA.			32
Three $5,000 UG scholarships offered.			82
Total Petrochemicals USA (www.totalpetrochemicalsusa.com), Houston, TX, combined its polyethylene and polypropylene business units.			22
Total Petrochemicals USA.			42
Trelleborg Industrial Products.			43
Twin Cities Rubber Group.			36
Uniroyal Tire (www.uniroyal.com), Greenville, SC, announced its partnership with consumer advocate and family savings expert Kimberly Danger.			41
Use of sulfur containing initiators for anionic polymerization of monomers.			141
Veyance Technologies forms Chinese JV.			56
Visual inspection.			157
Vulcanizing agents based on organic sulfur-nitrogen compounds for unsaturated rubbers and mixtures of these.			270
Waterproof sheet in-situ application machine.			168
West Michigan Rubber Group.			35
Yokohama Rubber (www.yrc.co.jp), Tokyo, Japan, signed a contract with Idiada Automotive Technology SA, a Spanish company, to allow Yokohama Rubber to preferentially use Idiada's new test track under construction with its scheduled start of operation for April 2008.			96
Yokohama Tire (www.yokohamatire.com) announced that Yokohama tires are standard equipment on all trim levels.			22
Yokohama Tire.			14