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Mitsui to launch new polyurethane elastomer Fortimo
Japan based chemicals manufacturer Mitsui Chemicals, Tokyo, announced the April 2015 launch of Fortimo, an elastomer using new aliphatic isocyanates, and Stabio, a polyisocyanate.Weiterlesen...
Materials Research Society appointed Parrillo to the board of directors
The Materials Research Society (MRS), Warrendale, USA, announced David J. Parrillo from Dow Chemicals as new member its board of directors, effective January 1, 2015.Weiterlesen...
Mitsui and Sinopec startup world’s largest EPT plant in China
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), Beijing, China, have started up one of the world‘s largest ethylene-propylene-diene-terpolymer (EPT) plants for a single train under their joint venture, Shanghai Sinopec Mitsui Elastomers, Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China. Production capacity is 75,000 metric tonnes/year. Weiterlesen...
Hexpol to lay off 61 workers at U.S. mixing plant
Swedish plastics compounder Hexpol issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice Monday stating it will lay off 61 workers at Robbins LLC‘s rubber compound mixing plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. This was reported by the Alabama website www.al.com.Weiterlesen...
Toyoda Gosei establishes JV for rubber hose production in India
Automotive suppliers Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Japan, Uno Minda from India and Toyota Tsusho Corporation, a Japanese trading company, are to establish a joint venture (JV) manufacturing company in India. The new company will supply brake hoses and other automotive rubber hoses to automakers.Weiterlesen...
DuPont to sell Neoprene business to Denka Performance Elastomer
DuPont Performance Polymers in Wilmington, U.S., and Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. (Denka), Japan, have signed a definitive agreement to sell the Neoprene polychloroprene business to Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, a new joint venture company owned 70 percent by Denka and 30 percent by Mitsui & Co., Ltd.Weiterlesen...
Lion Copolymer completes acquisition of Ashland Elastomers
Lion Copolymer Holdings LLC in Geismar, U.S., has completed its acquisition of Ashland Elastomers, LLC in Port Neches, Texas from Ashland Inc. The company will be renamed Lion Elastomers. With the acquisition, Lion will be a leading merchant provider of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) in the United States.Weiterlesen...
Development of an extremely fatigue-resistant Shock Absorber
An extremely fatigue resistant shock absorber was developed from basic mechanics principles using nonlinear elastic material models and finite element analysis. Prototypes were manufactured and tested to confirm the calculations and to find out the fatigue properties.Weiterlesen...
Establishing a Validation Method for the Analysis of Parent Rubbers in EPDM/SBR Blend-Vulcanizates in Metrology Laboratories
The aim of this work is to identify qualitatively and quantitatively EPDM/ SBR blend composition simply and speedy. A multi-technique scheme comprising of FT-IR spectroscopy, DSC calorimetry and 1H NMR spectroscopy was used.Weiterlesen...
Thermoplastic Vulcanizates based on Polyethylene and Styrene-Butadiene Rubber (Part III)
The paper deals with thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV) based on the cheapest and most widely used components, i.e. high-density polyethylene (PE-HD) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). Properties of uncured binary blends are not satisfactory, as reported before. Part III deals with blends prepared via dynamic vulcanization in Brabender Plasticorder mixer.Weiterlesen...