Articles from Rubber World (April 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Abrasion-resistant sheet material.			84
AkzoNobel.			22
Alternative Rubber & Plastics (www.altrubber.com), Amherst, NY, has partnered with Hangzhou Keli Chemical.			28
Automotive TPVs.			97
BASF.			45
Bearing witness.	Smith, Don R.		398
Brazilian Association of Rubber Technology.			60
Bridgestone (www.bridgestone.com) will discontinue offering its tires to the AMA Supercross and Motocross series.			26
Calendar.		Calendar	754
Carbon black batching.			144
Carbon nanotubes from Arkema (www.arkema.com) are to be sold in the U.K.			20
Characterization of Polymers, Volume 2.			108
Chicago Rubber Group.			66
Connecticut Rubber Group.			45
Crosslinking peroxides.			30
Crown reinforcement for a radial tire.			158
David Weidman is ACC chair.			169
Diameter scanners.			115
Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, has reached agreements with Rohm and Haas and certain of its shareholders that permit Dow to close the acquisition of substantially altered financial terms resolving the litigation initiated by Rohm and Haas against Dow last January.			55
Dow starts up SSBR plant in Germany.			108
Dry ice blasting system.			56
Energy Rubber Group.			28
EPDM sponge product.			141
Excel Polymers LLC.			33
Falling ball viscometer.			145
Filtrona (www.filtronaextrusion.com) announced that its subsidiary, Filtrona Extrusion, has entered into a conditional agreement with Extrusion LLC, a subsidiary of Saw Mill Capital Partners, L.P., to sell all the issued and outstanding common stock of the Filtrona Extrusion Holding Companies to Saw Mill for an aggregate maximum consideration of $115 million on a cash and debt-free basis.			84
Firestone Building Products promotes Jannasch.			367
FKM micropowder effects on fuel vapor permeation.	Shell, James A.		2165
Flexsys America L.P., a subsidiary of Solutia (www. solutia.com), St. Louis, MO, is moving forward with its patent infringement case against Sinorgchem Ltd., Korea Kumho Petrochemical, Kumho Tire and Kumho Tire U.S.A. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.			142
Flint Group.			51
Fluoroelastomers.			55
Fortune.			28
Fred Krautz.			19
Gear pumps for the rubber industry.	Murphy, Bill		1246
Genencor (www.genencor.com), a division of Danisco A/S, announced the first transfer of BioIsoprene product to Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron, OH.			44
General Motors (www.gm.com) is expected to agree to buy back its former Saginaw Steering Gear business from Delphi.			31
Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer (www.sartomer.com), Exton, PA, has joined the Chemidex Plastics & Elastomers Cybrary, a free online search engine specifically for engineers.			33
Goodyear Tire & Rubber.			28
GPC/SEC system.			86
Guill Tool & Engineering (www.guildd.com), West Warwick, RI, has appointed 360 Control Technologies as its representative.			28
How to simultaneously offer sustainability and high performance.	Eustache, Rene-Paul; Le, Guillaume; Silagy, David; Malet, Frederic L.G.		2010
Hughes Polymer Additives.			35
Hydraulic press systems.			77
IISRP holds 50th AGM in New York.			293
Improving the performance of fiber reinforced pressurizable products.	Raterink, J.C.; Nooij, S.M.; Taniq; Koussios, S.		2080
Injection molding.			123
Kumho Tire.			11
Lanxess AG.			80
Lewis-Goetz (www.lewis-goetz.com), Pittsburgh, PA, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Transport Parts.			32
LMI Technologies.			12
Long fiber thermoplastics.			69
Long-standing cooperation partners Dieffenbacher and Fraunhofer ICT have intensified their collaboration in the development of innovative fiber-composite solutions, creating a research and development alliance that takes into account new and constantly developing technologies.			58
Low permeability elastomeric-metal phosphate nanocomposites.			94
Modified polymers and compositions containing the same.			192
MRPC.			14
Ohio Rubber Group.			54
Paper calls.			207
Paratherm.			16
Performance rubbers.			101
Pharmaceutical extrusion discussed.			290
Plasticizers.			51
Pneumatic tire and method of scrapping the same.			147
PolyOne, Zyvex develop polymer materials.			95
Processing aid.			91
Quality registrations.			55
Quebec Elastomers Group.			24
Rhodia.			17
RMA examines rubber recycling.			489
RMA predicts 7% drop in tire shipments.			850
Rubber granulator.			136
Rubberlite.			7
Sibur Holding (www.sibur.ru) is pulling out of a deal to acquire the debt of tire holding Amtel-Vredestein N.V. and has suspended talks with the group's creditors because Russia's Sberbank has not decided on its involvement in the transaction.			64
Specialty chemical producer Rhodia (www.rhodia.com) has completed its acquisition of the Mclntyre Group Ltd..			32
Steam pyrolysis as a process to enhance the hydro-gasification of carbonaceous materials.			170
Tensile tester line.			130
The introduction of fuel resistant ACM.	Kelley, Joshua R.; Manley, Paul E.; Tao, David D.		3390
The Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society (www.rubber.org) and The Tire Society have entered into an agreement for 2009 in which the administrative functions of The Tire Society will be evaluated for possible future support by the Rubber Division administrative staff.			102
Thermoplastic olefins.			122
Total Petrochemicals USA.			37
Trelleborg Wheel Systems (www.trelleborg.com) and GPX International Tire have entered into a strategic alliance under which Trelleborg will become the exclusive distributor of Galaxy brand farm, forestry, agri-industrial and OTR tires in Europe.			70
VMI wins award for innovation, excellence.			113
Wacker Chemie AG.			94
West Michigan Rubber Group.			38
Wisdom Adhesives.			16