Session: Wednesday Afternoon Session B: New Commercial Developments (Fall 178th Technical Meeting)

Wednesday Afternoon Session B: New Commercial Developments

Wednesday, October 13, 2010: 1:00 PM-5:35 PM

Chair:

R. Christopher Napier, ExxonMobil Chemical Co.

1:00 PM

Improvements in Tire Productivity and Performance with Agilon™ Performance Silicas

Timothy A. Okel, PPG Industries, Inc., Monroeville, PA

1:20 PM

Introducing A New Ultra Low Viscosity Therban (HNBR)

Kevin Kulbaba, Dr., Technical Rubber Products, Center of Excellence Therban, LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, Germany, Matthias Soddemann, Dr., Soddemann, LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, Germany, Julia Müller, Dr., Müller, LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, Germany and Claus Wrana, Dr., Wrana, LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, Germany

1:40 PM

USV- the Ultra Speed Vulcanization Process for Rubber Molded Parts

Peter Lipp, Engineer, YellowBox Technologies, LLC, Union, KY

2:00 PM

Polymer Process Aid for Butyl Rubber with Recycled Content

Hari Chandrasekaran and Chandrasekaran Pillai, Quantum Polymer Composites, LLC, Pepper Pike, OH

2:20 PM

PAPER WITHDRAWN BY AUTHOR

2:40 PM

Break

3:00 PM

The Advantages of Robotic Fiber Positioning for Flexible Fiber Reinforced Rubber Products

Rob Barendse and Dimitrios Iakovou, Taniq BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands

3:20 PM

Trends Driving Synthetic Rubber Feedstock Markets

William Hyde, CMAI, Houston, TX

3:40 PM

Improvement of Dynamic Properties by Addition of Special Low Surface Silica

Gerd Schmaucks, Elkem AS, Oslo, Norway

4:00 PM

New Polymer Technology for Hydrogenated Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber

Tomonori Nakashima, Research & Development Center, ZEON CORPORATION, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan

4:20 PM

Selective Crosslinking of FKM for Optimized Properties

Claus Wrana, Stefan Kelbch, Martin Mezger, Olaf Isenberg-Schulz and Stefan Augst, Lanxess AG, Leverkusen, Germany

4:40 PM

Novel Peroxide Curable Butyl Rubber with Fillers

Lisa Knight, PhD, Lorenzo Ferrari, MBA, MSc, Treena Crockett, BScH and Sarah Chadder, BScH, LANXESS, London, ON, Canada

5:00 PM

New Generation HIPEX®: Heat and Chemical Resistant TPEs

John Chiao, Quality and Product Development, Kraiburg TPE Corporation, Duluth, GA