Articles from Rubber World (January 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Americas Styrenics.			97
Antioxidant.			75
Bayer MaterialScience AG has entered into a distribution agreement for its carbon nanotubes, BayTubes, with Brenntag Schweizerhall AG.			37
Bayer MaterialScience plans to acquire the polyurethanes business of Dr. D.A. Delis AG in Athens, Greece.			58
Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany, and Dow Chemical have completed a license agreement that allows Dow to produce polyether polyols using Bayer's patented Impact technology.			34
Beaumont Technologies, Erie, PA, said to be a pioneer in advanced thermoset rubber and plastics injection molding flow-management technologies, announced the appointment of Rep International of Lyon, France, as the exclusive distributor of the patented MeltFlipper technologies to the thermoset rubber injection molding industry.			74
Bosch Rexroth.			25
Bridgestone changes senior management duties.			168
Bridgestone Firestone de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas Holding, announced it will close its Mexico City tire plant in the second half of 2008.			74
Bulk bag dischargers.			114
Calendar.		Calendar	784
China ascends as top tire importer to U.S.			49
Cooper Tire & Rubber.			17
Cooper Tire.			16
Davis Standard promotes in Extrusion Systems.			109
Design for TPV molding, grips and overmolding.			2329
Dow Chemical plans to expand its facilities at Correggio, Italy, in a move that will position the site as Dow's global research and development center for polyurethane systems formulation and application technology.			88
Dow Corning Surface and Interface Solutions Center.			27
Dow Polyurethanes, a business group of Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, announced that Dow will acquire the remaining shares of Pacific Plastics (Thailand) Ltd. (PPTL).			86
Dow, Chevron Phillips propose styrenics JV.			55
DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., has made an investment in Novomer.			83
DuPont.			30
Electrically-heated oven.			92
Engel North America, York, PA, has strengthened its midwest sales support team with the addition of two new representative companies, Miroeke Sales and Scott Equipment Sales.			49
Evolution of high tech golf balls.	Byers, John		733
Exousia Advanced Materials and Shield Industries jointly announced their successful release of Shield's BioShield industrial epoxy coatings.			33
ExxonMobil Chemical.			59
Fillers, surface modifiers.			77
Goodyear HQ to remain located in Akron, OH.			90
Goodyear Industrial Products LLC announced the acquisition of the Rubber and Plastics Division of Miller Products.			18
Goodyear Tire & Rubber plans to spend NT$300 million on new machinery at its factory in Taoyuan, Taiwan, by the end of the year.			45
Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, OH, developer of run-flat tire technology, is working with NASA Glenn Research Center to significantly evolve the technology and take its capabilities to the rest of the universe.			74
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			60
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			68
GPC/SEC testing system.			102
High tear interwoven belt fabric.			133
Independent testing laboratories directory.		Directory	3053
Injection Molding Machines, 4th Edition, A User's Guide.			85
Instrumentation, test equipment suppliers.		Directory	6448
Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd is expanding its reach to Iran via a joint venture to manufacture rubber bearings for use in construction of buildings.			91
Lanxess to acquire Petroflex S.A. of Brazil.			74
Liquid silicone rubber.			120
Measuring the effects of post-cure heat aging on compound dynamic properties.	Dick, John S.; Pawlowski, Henry A.; Kuykendall, Jack		4244
Method and apparatus for estimating tire/wheel performance by simulation.			129
Miniature compounder.			100
No reruns.	Smith, Don R.		424
Ohio Rubber & Plastics Group.			124
Para Tech Coatings.			19
Pendulum impact tester.			149
Physical testing of rubber.			1744
Pneumatic radial tire with belt reinforcing layer between carcass layer and belt layer.			148
Pneumatic tire including toriodally continuous cells and method of producing same.			122
PolyOne.			32
Prediction of dynamic mechanical properties for tire tread compounds.	Agrawal, S.L.; Bandyopadhyay, S.; Dasgupta, S.; Mukhopadhyay, R.		4646
Profile measurement.			72
RMA now sees slight growth in tire shipments.			577
Rotary rubber injection.			75
Rubber composition for breaker and pneumatic tire using the same.			134
Rubber mold design.			169
Rubber Red Book CD-ROM.			51
Rubber Red Book.			40
Rubber testing.			92
Rubber World ONLINE www.rubberworld.com.			25
Rubber World product news.			48
Rubber World.			54
Silica containing rubber composition.			235
Southern Rubber Group.			28
Spectrophotometers.			110
Strength vs. durability of rubber-metal bonds--factor effects from processing and chemistry.	Del Vecchio, R.J.; Ferro, Ernest, Jr.		3749
Supercooled rubbers.			131
Take a load off.	Walinskas, Karl		1781
Testing technologies.			74
The Blue Book CD-ROM.			47
The blue book--print edition & online edition.			35
The following grid lists the types of instrumentation and test equipment offered by suppliers.			2388
The Rubber Chemicals business unit of Lanxess is investing EUR 10 million in its plant in Antwerp, Belgium.			39
The Spotlight.			32
Tire Technology Expo 2008 held.			1578
Trelleborg's divestment of its Coventry, U.K., operations, including Trelleborg Automotive U.K., is complete.			23
Tube extrusion tooling.			91
Twin Cities Rubber Group.			36
Viscometers, rheometers.			47
West Michigan Rubber Group.			35
Xenon tester.			99