The recent IRC2019 conference and exhibition in London included a poster presentation titled Design of Safer Rubber Accelerators by R.S. Virdi and B.W. Grover of Robinson Brothers Ltd, West Bromwich, UK.

This 20-page analysis features top-level comment from a broad range of decision-makers, opinion-formers and stakeholders on issues impacting the sustainability performance of the global tire & rubber industry. This includes a series of insights into the current status and progress of the sector in terms of reducing the impact of its activities and products on people and the environment.

Fluence Analytics has developed a real-time analytics system that provides continuous measurements of critical properties during industrial and lab-scale polymerisation reactions. The company recently wrapped up a joint project with Firestone for monitoring the anionic polymerization of styrene butadiene rubber. See a full report in the Technical Papers section of the ERJ homepage.

Nippon Soda (NISSO) is advancing the chemistry and materials science around its epoxylated polybutadienes, which allow the cross-linking reaction of 1,2-vinyl groups and the ring-opening reaction of epoxy groups

Highly controlled copolymerisation process is said to yield “exceptionally clean” products with minimal residual monomers or oligomers compared to using radical polymerisation.

A new family of easy processing sSBR provides “good hints” for developing rubber compounding strategies, according to a paper present by Fabio Bacchelli at this year’s DKT conference.

The results, he suggests, represent an excellent compromise between hysteresis, mixing and extrusion behaviour, in particular when used in combination with high performance batch grades.

The global landscape of fuel compositions is undergoing drastic change with new fuel types like oxymethylene ethers (OMEs), biodiesel or dimethyl ether (DME) already commonly applied . The trends suggest that FKM is the only appropriate choice of sealing material, according to this study by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies.

In a recent paper, Alfredo Defrancisci of Arkema France presented details of a new organic peroxide for curing EPDM profiles in hot-air ovens: offering advantages over sulphur vulcanisation