101 Creating a Green EPDM Compound

Thursday, October 11, 2012: 3:15 PM
Room 202-201 (Duke Energy Center)
Brandon Borzi, Rhein Chemie Corporation, Chardon, OH
With consumer demand pushing for eco-friendly green compounds, the rubber industry is looking for new source of products that are produced from renewable resources. This paper will show how the use of green EPDM and other chemicals containing renewable resources can be used to create EPDM compounds that are both practical to use in everyday production, and provides a renewable content greater than 50% of a product’s total volume.