Articles from Rubber World (September 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2009 tire shipments revised to drop 16%.			606
Additives.			45
Advances in structure measurements of carbon black.	Joyce, George A.; Henry, William M.; Magee, Ricky W.		5270
Arkema to buy latex assets from Dow.			101
Arkema.			42
Automation systems.			73
Automotive TPEs.			128
Automotive TPVs.			102
BASF.			68
Bead unseat testing.	Edington, Guy		1847
Bridgestone.			87
Butyl nanocomposites with reduced air permeability: theory and practice.	Lohse, David J.		1598
C. Thomas Harvie, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's general counsel for more than 14 years, has announced plans to retire in October.			44
Calendar.		Calendar	778
Carbon black batching.			153
Clean room cabinet oven.			160
ContiTech (www.contitech.de) has proved that a large Chinese manufacturer produced fake ContiTech drive belts.			58
Cooper Tire and Rubber.			37
Cooper-Standard Automotive (www.cooperstandard. com), Novi, MI, announced that its parent company, Cooper-Standard Holdings, and its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada have received interim court approval of its $175 million debtor in possession financing.			67
Cytec Industries.			52
Diene-based TPU.			93
Dow Chemical (www.dow.com) will close the former Rohm & Haas chemical plant in Philadelphia's Bridesburg section.			34
Engel.			22
Flexsys America L.P., a subsidiary of Solutia (www.solutia.com), St. Louis, MO, has selected Americas International as its North American rubber chemical distributor.			85
Florida Tire Recycling (www.ftri.net), Port St. Lucie, FL, announced a partnership with Ready Rubber, a provider of sustainable specialty chemical solutions.			59
Fluid transfer hose reinforced with hybrid yarn.			71
Global tire market.			71
Hankook Tire America.			20
Harwick Standard Distribution.			36
Horizontal injection.			97
Huber Engineered Materials (www.hubermaterials. com), a division of J.M. Huber, announced construction of its new dental silica plant.			33
In recognition of its outstanding performance in delivery, quality, lean practices and customer support.			29
Ineos Technologies (www.ineos.com) announced that PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical in Xinjiang, China, has started up both of its Ineos Technologies licensed polymer units.			29
Irvin E. (Irv) Poston, who had a long and distinguished career at then General Motors and was responsible for numerous automotive plastics "firsts," has been named to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.			40
Lanxess cooperates with oil producer Nynas.			117
Laser sensor innovations improve tire manufacturing.	Pastorius, Walt; Sanden, Martin		873
Loss-in-weight feeding.			123
LSR production.			36
Lump detection system.			167
Magnum D'Or Resources.			63
Marketing Services of America (MSA) (www.msaplastik.com), Miami Beach, FL, has been appointed as a distributor by ExxonMobil Chemical for its broad portfolio of specialty elastomers in Latin America.			85
Miniature durometer.			114
Nano-composite and compositions manufactured thereof.			78
New silane coupling agents for NR/truck tire applications.	Jiang, Ping; Kounavis, John; Alfonso, Juan; Sloan, Wesley; Pohl, Eric; Stout, Michael		4391
Nonwoven composites and related products and methods.			94
Nova Chemicals.			35
Oxides extracted from vegetable matter and process therefor.			98
Ozone climate simulator.			109
Paro named chairman at HallStar.			220
Perfluoropolyether LIMS.			144
Pittsburgh hosts Rubber Division.			4747
Pneumatic conveyor.			143
Polymer modifiers.			89
PolyOne (www.polyone.com), Cleveland, OH, a provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced that PolyOne Distribution has been named the primary distributor of thermoplastic products for DuPont Engineering Polymers in North America.			85
Process for preparing a silica rubber blend.			93
Research marches on.	Smith, Don R.		354
Rubber calenders.			66
Rubber chemicals.			79
Rubber composition and tire comprising same.			165
Rubber glove demand to grow by 10%.			220
Rubber printing system.			107
SCG-Dow Group (www.dow.com), a joint venture of Dow Chemical and Siam Cement Group announced construction of a new world scale specialty elastomers plant in the Asia Industrial Estate in Rayong Province, Thailand.			122
Struktol Company of America (www.struktol.com), Stow, OH, and APV Engineered Coatings have announced a sales and marketing agreement.			44
Table-top testers.			138
Tire fuel efficiency rating system proposed.			114
Tokai Rubber Industries.			88
University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering.			147
Wacker Chemie AG (www.wacker.com), Munich, Germany, has reorganized its distribution structure for pyrogenic silica in Germany.			75
Wacker Dymatic Silicones (www.wacker.com), a joint venture between Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) and Dymatic Chemicals (Shunde, China), has commissioned a new silicone emulsion plant.			48
Water intensifier pump.			98
Worldwide Rubber Statistics 2009.			109
Yokohama Tire's.			21
Zumbach Electronics.			17