Your source for the latest rubber developments ...This Winter 2006 edition of Rubber World's Product News features a case study on page 4 describing how a tire company installed a cooler/stacker system from VMI VMI Virginia Military Institute VMI Vendor Managed Inventory VMI Vertical Motion Index VMI Valtakunnan Metsien Inventointi (Finnish: National Forest Inventory) VMI Video Module Interface Americas at its new production plant. The system is said to stack rubber strips with such speed and accuracy that the company is getting higher loads per pallet. Pallet stacks can be completely shrink wrapped for transport. Tire shipments are predicted to decrease by 4.5% in 2006, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Rubber Manufacturers Association. The decrease in tire shipments is said to reflect the overall slowdown in the U.S. economy during 2006. An International Profit Associates Small Business Research Board survey finds that small and medium-sized manufacturers are slightly less confident in their business prospects over the course of the next 12 months. A multiclient analysis completed by Robert Eller Associates reports that European and American 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 suppliers are following markets to China. Recent introductions to the rubber industry, highlight-ed on page 6, include laboratory testing software from Instron. Also featured are fluoroelastomer extrusions for hostile environments See: operational environment. from Pelmor Laboratories. A processing aid from Axel Axel: see Absalon. Plastics Research Laboratories that boosts EPDM/PP performance is also highlighted, along with an in-line die for silicone silicone, polymer in which atoms of silicon and oxygen alternate in a chain; various organic radicals, such as the methyl group, CH3, are bound to the silicon atoms. extrusion from Guill Tool & Engineering. In every issue of the Rubber World Product News, readers will find the latest information on a wide variety of products and services for the rubber industry, including machinery and equipment, chemicals and materials, instrumentation, hardware and software, and custom services. The final pages of the Product News are dedicated to brochures, available from companies by contacting them through their web sites which are listed at the bottom of each product release. As always, we welcome information from your company to be published in upcoming issues of the Product News. Press releases, artwork and brochures may be sent to Rubber World's offices or emailed to jill@rubberworld.com. Thank you for your loyal readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. , and we hope you enjoy this latest edition. Jill Rohrer Editor, Rubber World Product News |
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