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Specialty Additives Leader, Addivant,to Exhibit at Chinaplas 2013

Specialty Additives Leader, Addivant,to Exhibit at Chinaplas 2013

Addivant™ USA, LLC, the global leader in specialty additives with regional headquarters in Shanghai, China, will exhibit in Hall 11.2, stand M25 and host a technical seminar for customers during Chinaplas 2013. [More]
New ASU Effort to Use Biomaterials for Rubber Production in a More Environmentally Sustainable Manner

New ASU Effort to Use Biomaterials for Rubber Production in a More Environmentally Sustainable Manner

ASU engineer Amy Landis has a pivotal role in a new potentially far-reaching effort to use biomaterial to produce rubber in a more environmentally and economically sustainable way. [More]
New Global Market Research Report on Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber

New Global Market Research Report on Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) Market for Tire, Polymer Modification, Footwear & Others - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012 - 2018" report to their offering. [More]
Bluestar Silicones Unveils SILCOLAPSE Foam Control Additives at Plastics Recycling Conference

Bluestar Silicones Unveils SILCOLAPSE Foam Control Additives at Plastics Recycling Conference

Bluestar Silicones will showcase its domestically-produced line of SILCOLAPSE® brand foam control additives at the Plastics Recycling Conference at the Sheraton New Orleans, March 19-20. Bluestar Silicones' technical experts will be on-hand at booth #800 to demonstrate the foam additives' knock-down capabilities in plastics and recycling wash systems. [More]
Novel Silicone Rubber with Strength and Bounce-Ability

Novel Silicone Rubber with Strength and Bounce-Ability

If anything bothers University of Virginia physicist Lou Bloomfield, it’s a wobbly table. So much so that he actually invented a material to eliminate the problem. The material, a type of silicone rubber that is both rigid and fluid – a “viscoelastic” solid – can be placed under a table leg where it conforms to the shape of the leg bottom and the floor surface, perfectly filling the gap. [More]
Raven Industries Installs New Reclaim Production Line to Capture and Recycle Excess Polymer Material

Raven Industries Installs New Reclaim Production Line to Capture and Recycle Excess Polymer Material

Raven Industries Engineered Films Division announces the installation of a new reclaim production line designed to capture and recycle excess polymer material from internal manufacturing processes. [More]
New Report on U.S. Resin & Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing Industry Market

New Report on U.S. Resin & Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing Industry Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 U.S. Resin & Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing Industry-Industry & Market Report" report to their offering. [More]
RTP Company Commences Nylon Bondable Santoprene TPV Compound Production

RTP Company Commences Nylon Bondable Santoprene TPV Compound Production

Global custom engineered thermoplastics compounder RTP Company has licensed manufacturing rights from ExxonMobil Chemical for their patented Santoprene* TPV (thermoplastic vulcanizate) nylon bondable thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) product line. RTP Company has begun producing the products using the same Santoprene TPV technology to provide current users a seamless supply transition and will also develop new markets and applications. [More]
Dow Corning’s QP1Silicone Elastomers for Medical Applications

Dow Corning’s QP1Silicone Elastomers for Medical Applications

Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation for the healthcare industry, today announced here at MD&M West (Hall D, Booth #1751)Dow Corning®QP1Silicone Elastomers, a new silicone technology for the company’s high consistency rubber (HCR) product line. [More]
Dow Corning to Introduce New Silicone Rubber Insulation at Subsea Tieback Forum

Dow Corning to Introduce New Silicone Rubber Insulation at Subsea Tieback Forum

At the 2013 Subsea Tieback Forum & Exhibition, Dow Corning Corporation – a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation – will launch Dow Corning® XTI-1003 RTV Silicone Rubber Insulation, a solid, non-syntactic advanced thermal insulation solution for high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) equipment used in deepwater production infrastructure and tiebacks. [More]
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