Thermoplastic Elastomers Now Comprise around 20% of the Elastomeric Gasket Market in the USA.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50216) has announced the addition of TPE TPE Thermoplastic Elastomer TPE Terminal de Paiement Electronique (French) TPE Total Power Exchange TPE Twisted Pair Ethernet TPE Tampines Expressway (Singapore) TPE Therapeutic Plasma Exchange 2006 to their offering. Thermoplastic elastomers are growing in importance. The Freedonia Group forecasts that demand for TPEs will expand 6.4% a year to 2.15 million tons in 2006. This important fast-growing area offers significant business opportunities, ready for commercial exploitation. Automotive and medical applications of TPEs are increasing. They now comprise around 20% of the elastomeric gasket market in the USA, and are found in footwear, personal care products, packaging and sports applications, among others. Overmoulding is a key use of TPEs and there are developments in materials and processing techniques to facilitate the simultaneous moulding process. TPEs can enhance appearance and feel compared to conventional rubbers. Now in its ninth year, the international TPE conference is firmly established as Europe's premier event for the thermoplastic elastomers industry. These proceedings focus on the latest TPE materials, performance, processing and applications. Topics Covered inside Report: SESSION 1. COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF TPEs Paper 1 Implications of Asian market shifts and new technologies on TPE demand and intra-TPE competition Robert Eller, Robert Eller Associates, Inc., USA Paper 2 Novel developments in thermoplastic elastomers for overmoulding applications John Simons, GLS GLS - Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. International, The Netherlands & Dr Krishna Venkataswamy, Dr Jiren Gu & Joe Gerkhardt, GLS Corporation, USA SESSION 2. STYRENIC TPEs Paper 3 Innovative SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. additive for high flow and high melt strength TPEs Emmanuel Colchen, KRATON Polymers, France, Xavier Muyldermans & Emmanuelle Coignoul, KRATON Polymers Research, Belgium Paper 4 HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) based TPE for higher temperature resistance Dr Markus Beitzel, KRAIBURG TPE GmbH, Germany Paper 5 New developing grades of HSBC with crosslinkable hard blocks Mizuho Maeda, Kuraray Europe GmbH, Germany Paper 6 Performance characteristics of a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer Koji Noda, Kaneka Belgium NV, Belgium, Katsuhiko Kimura, Ryuji Fukuda & Makoto Tawada, Kaneka Corporation, Japan SESSION 3. TPVS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS Paper 7 How TPV TPV Temporary Protection Visa (Australia) TPV Terminal Punto Venta TPV Third-Party Verification TPV Thermophotovoltaic TPV Thermoplastic Vulcanizate (thermoplastic elastomer) TPV Total Payment Volume out-performs EPDM EPDM Ethylene-Propylene-Diene-Monomer EPDM Enterprise Product Data Management EPDM Ethylene Propylene Dimonomer (industrial/commercial piping/plumbing components) EPDM Engineering Product Data Management in acoustic properties for automotive sealing Rob Janisch, Shawn Jyawook, Jim Browell, Mark Steward & Ralph Richardson, JYCO Sealing Technologies, USA Paper 8 TPV for automotive sealing applications Yuichi Ito, Hideyo Tsutaya, Takuo Asami, Tadashi Imai, Kimihiko Kamo, Hayato Kurita & Hidetake Nakano, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Japan SESSION 4. TPV DEVELOPMENTS Paper 9 Crosslink density of dynamically vulcanized vul·ca·nize tr.v. vul·ca·nized, vul·ca·niz·ing, vul·ca·niz·es To improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat polyolefin blends (TPV) based on EPDM/PP Norbert Vennemann, Klaus Bokamp & Dirk Broker, University of Applied Sciences Osnabruck, Germany SESSION 5. THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE (TPU TPU - Text Processing Utility ) Paper 10 Novel thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) for high performance aesthetics Dennis H.W. Feijen, Merquinsa Mercados Quimicos S.L., Spain Paper 11 Expanded thermoplastic polyurethane technology Bart Van Edom, Huntsman Polyurethanes, Belgium SESSION 6. COPOLYESTER TPE Paper 12 A new non halogenated halogenated pertaining to a substance to which a halogen is added. halogenated salicylanilides see rafoxanide, clioxanide. flame retardant COPE Dr Dirk Zierer, Ticona GmbH, Germany & Ken Fletcher, Ticona LLC, USA SESSION 7. TPE ADDITIVES AND FINISHING Paper 13 Advances for siliceous siliceous relating to or made of silica or a silicate. mineral products within TPE systems Julian Danvers, World Minerals, France & Roger Rothon, Rothon Consultants, UK Paper 14 Overview of talc properties in SEBS compounds Gilles Meli & Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Lejour, Rio Tinto Minerals, France, Gert Joly & Jaak Moerenhout, KRATON Polymers Research, Belgium Paper 15 Advanced laser welding of TPE using NIR-absorbers Matthias Hopfner, ALLOD Al´lod n. 1. See Allodium. Werkstoff GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, Dr Rolf Klein & Dr Gareth McGrath, Gentex Corporation, UK SESSION 8. PROCESSING TPEs Paper 16 Latest developments in multicomponent molding thermoplastic Elastomers Charles Page, PolyOne Th. Bergmann GmbH, Germany Paper 17 Improving the injection moulding process with special screw design Jan Brus, Kluin Wijhe BV, The Netherlands For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50216 |
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