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Zeon: Improving long-term performance of HNBR compounds
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Zeon Corp. is seeking to enhance the long-term properties of hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR) to …
Compound optimisation: From formulation to application
Added: 17 Sep 2019
By Izaak Watson BSc (Hons) Rubber Technologist at Clwyd Compounders Ltd
Fundamental aspects of co…
Tires under the microscope
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Prof James Busfield and Lewis Tunnicliffe of the soft matter group at Queen Mary University of Lond…
Kiwa guiding TPE seals into drinking-water applications
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) are an established alternative to vulcanised rubbers in sealing app…
Chemical plant projects present increasing challenges for engineers
Added: 17 Sep 2019
The chemical industry is a booming sector for industrial plant manufacturers. Among other things, t…
Kumho Polychem advances semi-single site catalysts for production of new EPDMs
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Technical paper from Korean petrochemicals group shows how system can deliver high levels of cataly…
Plastics and rubber machinery – Best practice in resource efficiency
Added: 17 Sep 2019
For NPE 2015, VDMA has issued a brochure shows a number of case studies of what resource efficiency…
Where Industry 4.0 is an issue - and where it is not
Added: 17 Sep 2019
84 percent of German manufacturers and users believe that Industry 4.0 will provide a new frame wor…
TPEs to meet automotive trends around sustainability and innovation
Added: 17 Sep 2019
At DKT 2019, Thomas Koeppl of Hexpol TPE GmbH presented a paper highlighting how the company is dev…
Air peroxide system for crosslinking EPDM
Added: 17 Sep 2019
In a recent paper, Alfredo Defrancisci of Arkema France presented details of a new organic peroxide…
Varying fuel composition worldwide: What are the effects on seals?
Added: 17 Sep 2019
The global landscape of fuel compositions is undergoing drastic change with new fuel types like oxy…
Newly designed easy processing SSBR for optimum performance in rubber compounding
Added: 17 Sep 2019
A new family of easy processing sSBR provides “good hints” for developing rubber compounding strate…
Kuraray elastomers based on PMMA hard-blocks and an acrylic-based soft-block
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Highly controlled copolymerisation process is said to yield “exceptionally clean” products with min…
NISSO develops new polybutadienes for rubber formulations
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Nippon Soda (NISSO) is advancing the chemistry and materials science around its epoxylated polybuta…
Rodolfo advances calendering technology
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Rodolfo Comerio has announced that it is awaiting approval of a pending patent registered for the a…
Online monitoring of styrene butadiene copolymerisation
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Fluence Analytics has developed a real-time analytics system that provides continuous measurements …
ERJ Special Report – Sustainability
Added: 17 Sep 2019
This 20-page analysis features top-level comment from a broad range of decision-makers, opinion-for…
Industries call for higher EU budget for R&D programme
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Brussels – Some 93 European associations, representing key research & innovation stakeholders have …
IRC2020, new rubber centre for India
Added: 17 Sep 2019
London – The next International Rubber Conference (IRC2020) will be held in Chennai, India, organis…
Two-day production halt at Apollo Kerala plants
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Kochi, India – Apollo Tyres halted tire production at two of its plant in Kerala, south of India, f…
