Articles from Rubber World (September 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Amtel-Vredestein N.V.			58
Apparatus for resin-impregnation of fibers for filament winding.			105
Are your old tires safe?	Byers, John		813
BPS Engineering LLC.			110
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC (www.bridgestone-firestone.com), Nashville, TN, announced that its Potenza RE050A tires are original equipment.			28
Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire.			23
Bridgestone Metalpha promotes Bright.			149
Bridgestone.			56
Bulk bag/drum filler.			139
Calendar.		Calendar	587
Chromalox.			35
Connecticut Rubber Group.			22
Cooper Tire & Rubber (www.coopertire.com), Findlay, OH, has liquidated its investment in Kumho Tire.			47
Cyclo olefin polymer.			97
Cytec Industries elects Fleming president, CEO.			149
Delta-Energy, LLC.			101
Dover Chemical.			23
Elastomers.			119
Electric batch oven.			138
Eliokem.			56
EPDM Roofing Association.			23
ExxonMobil produces specialty tire materials.			143
Fitz Chem (www.fitzchem.com), Itasca, IL, was recognized for its performance.			25
Franklynn Industries (www.franklynnusa.com) announced that Lintech International LLC, Macon, GA, has agreed to represent Franklynn's line of rubber mold.			30
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			30
GreenMan Technologies (www.greenman.biz), Des Moines, IA, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Iowa Association of School Boards have partnered on a scrap tire program to reuse 500,000 pounds of recycled rubber as part of the Iowa Safe School Playground Initiative.			100
HallStar.			12
Hercules Tire.			56
Hot feed extruders.			69
Improved peroxide curing efficiency of EPDM with VNB as third monomer in an engine mount formulation--part 2.	Dees, Michiel; van Duin, Martin		3686
Increasing fuel economy and durability in truck tires.	Datta, R.; Parker, S.; Van der Made, M.; Pierik, B.; Huntink, N.; Aramid, Teijin		4521
Instrumentation.			63
Invensys Process Systems (www.invensys.com), London, U.K., a global sofware and consulting firm, has signed a five-year, more than $20 million contract to provide comprehensive industrial automation services and solutions to Kraton Polymers, a producer of styrenic block copolymers with facilities in the U.S., Germany, France, the Netherlands, Brazil, China and Japan.			76
Lanxess (www.lanxess.com), Leverkusen, Germany, announced that its material testing laboratory for plastics at the Wuxi site in China has been accredited to ISO 17025.			37
Lavelle Industries.			30
Louisville hosts Rubber Division.		Calendar	3244
Manufacturing (R&D) tax credit studies--how to choose the right consulting firm.	Solanji, Karim; Lamber, Mark		1164
Melt index determination.			132
Method for monitoring tire deformations and monitoring system therefor.			157
Michelin (www.michelin.com) and China Coal Pingshuo signed a three-year renewable contract.			42
Mid-Atlantic Rubber & Plastics Group.			73
Mitsui Elastomers Singapore Pte. Ltd. (www.mitsuichem.com), owned 100% by Mitsui Chemicals, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a production plant for Tafmer (alpha-olefin copolymer).			50
Mountain State Packaging.			23
Nanofiber matrices.			109
New way to educate.	Smith, Don R.		452
NLGI.			22
Pirelli (www.us.pirelli.com) signed a letter of intent with Russian Technologies to set up a joint venture building a new tire-building facility in Tol'yatti, Russia.			52
Polymerization processes.			95
PolyOne.			17
Portage Precision Polymers.			26
Reduce cure time without damaging the rubber compound during injection molding.	Demin, Stephane		2717
Rheometer curing cells.			136
RMA predicts 4% decline in tire shipments for '08.			670
Rosehill Polymers.			13
Rubber composition and pneumatic tire using the same.			118
Rubber composition for inner liner.			118
Rubber World Industries, Lanxess sign contract.			107
Self-supporting pneumatic tire with a partial inner liner.			237
Shearographic analysis of tire aging.	Waddell, Walter H.; Napier, R. Christopher; Tracey, Donald S.; Rouckhout, Dirk F.		3819
Silica systems.			61
Silicone elastomers.			120
Site closures announced by Dow Reichhold Latex.			140
Smithers Scientific Services.			23
SNS Nano Fiber Technology, LLC (www.snsnano.com), Uniontown, OH, formed from a partnership of Struktol Company of America and the University of Akron.			32
Standard/custom presses.			127
Stepan (www.stepan.com), Northfield, IL, announced the sale of select product lines within its urethane system business to Bayer MaterialScienee LLC.			36
Tenneco.			59
The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers.			67
The University of Akron's College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of its polymer engineering program.			69
Thermoplastic and Rubber Compounds.			96
Thermoset SMC products.			125
Tire fabric treating unit.			110
Tire otis.			66
Tire rubber compounding.			81
Tires.			44
Tirex (www.tirex-tcs.com), Stratford, CT, owner of the green, patented tire recycling technology, the TCS System, announced it progress in its recent restructuring, undertaken to facilitate the company's return to being quoted on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB), which the company believes will increase its opportunities to obtain capital financing of its TCS facilities.			125
Trostel.			26
University of Akron.			36
West Michigan Rubber Group.			101
Yokohama Rubber.			75