Session: Contributed Session on Polymers and Adhesives (Spring 185th Technical Meeting)

Contributed Session on Polymers and Adhesives

Monday, March 24, 2014: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Chair:

C. Jeffrey Lin, Ph.D., Momentive Performance Materials Inc.

8:30 AM

HT-ACM & XT-ACM Heat and Fluid Resistant Acrylic Rubber

Hans-Martin Issel, Managing Director, Unimatec Chemicals America, Inc., Novi, MI and Konstantin Zoumis, Technical Director, UCE, Unimatec Chemicals Europe, Weinheim, Germany

9:00 AM

Chemical Aspects in Aging of NBR and HNBR-Materials

Ulrich Giese, Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie e. V., Hannover, Germany

9:30 AM

Break

9:45 AM

Using Dithiodicaprolactam Accelerator to Reduce Reversion and Improve Heat Aging Properties in Natural Rubber, Polybutadiene and Other Unsaturated Polymers

Steven Monthey, Rhein Chemie Corporation, Rhein Chemie Corp., Chardon, OH

10:15 AM

An Engineer's Guide to Selecting Rubber-to-Substrate Adhesives

Emmanuel Pitia, PhD, Lord Corporation, Lord Corporation, Erie, PA

11:00 AM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER ADDRESS-Sustainable Development - A Major Challenge to the Rubber Industry

P.K. Mohamed, Global R&D - CV, Apollo Tyres Ltd., Chennai, India