Jan 19, 2005 | Article
Cost saving is a universal headache for all the manufacturers and, of course rubber ones are concerned, the more so as rubber goods are mass-produced and must vie with plastics which are easy to...
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Dec 22, 2004 | Article
Titanates and zirconates are versatile species used as polymer additives to: * Enhance coupling of polymers and incompatible o Fillers, o Fibres, o Fire...
Dec 8, 2004 | Article
Anybody knows: * Bubbles of air in paint leading to unaesthetic defects after drying. * Water boiling over when cooking pasta. * Foaming of soap and detergent solutions… All these common...
Nov 24, 2004 | Article
Crumbs of end-of-life tyres represent roughly 20% of tyre wastes. Share of crumbs of industrial scraps are unknown but certainly inferior. Crumb is a friendly environmental way to recycle tyres and...
Nov 10, 2004 | Article
Tyres are produced at 250 million units in Europe each year that is to say more than 2 600 000 tonnes accounting for more than €14.000 M. Some are collected by the garages, the others are included...
Oct 27, 2004 | Article
Retreading of tyres, repairing of industrial rubber goods are the best recycling ways but are not always suitable because of the chemical and mechanical state of the end-of-life products. These are...
Sep 29, 2004 | Article
Mixing, degassing, storage Plastisols are almost always stored before processing. The plasticizer tends to swell the resin and the viscosity increases the more so as the temperature rises. A more...
Sep 15, 2004 | Article
Improving the impact strength of compounds is the role of an important group of additives. Impact modifiers compensate for inherent brittleness, or embrittlement occurring at sub-zero temperatures...
Sep 1, 2004 | Article
Certain mixtures can be explosive and it is necessary to take care (see Safety subchapter) to respect the addition order of the various ingredients defined by the suppliers of these ingredients and...
Aug 4, 2004 | Article
PVC is a performing but relatively stiff, brittle resin processed with the heavy machinery of thermoplastics. Its plasticization discovered in 1928 by The BF Goodrich Company opened the door to:...