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Jim Finn,
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President Akron Dispersions

"The International Latex Conference has grown to be the most significant latex industry event held in the United States. If someone wants to know about the latex industry, this is the place to meet and talk with your colleagues throughout the latex industry. This will be our strongest, most relevant conference yet. I’m looking forward to this year’s conference. I hope to see you there."

Speakers from world-renown companies will cover the following topics:

• New approaches combining a simplified glove processing with new product features and cost saving options
• Understanding the influence of polymer structure, catalyst and other essential additives on the cured binder system in the application of waterborne binder systems to non-woven substrates
• A case study involving manufacturing process improvements of a hydroquinone type antioxidant for improved dispersability in synthetic latex
• Using the dip molding process, certain surfactant additives to on-line leaching has the potential for reducing ions and metal content in nitrile films
• The use of smectite clay (also known as bentonite clay) as a suspending agent in an aqueous dispersion with high solid contents that must be easily poured or pumped
• The effect of cure temperature, time and film thickness on the properties of guayule products
• What major changes in the global petrochemical markets may occur in the near term as global supply patterns shift
• Is the demand for natural rubber latex expanding? What part of the industry will dominate the market in the near future?
• Vytex, a new natural rubber latex product that works in existing manufacturing environments with similar or superior performance characteristics when compared to untreated NRL or synthetic products
• High-Performance Stereospecific Elastomers From Bioreactors

• The University of Akron Study: Natural rubber biosynthesis proceeds via a carbocationic polymerization.
  University researchers will present the first results of the consumption of reactants and polymer formation monitored using Real-Time Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR).
• Lehigh University Study: Film formation from reactive latex blends.
  The influence of latex blend composition was studied by varying the fraction of acetoacetoxy-functional polymer in the blends before casting the films. University researches will show how crosslink density can increase with increasing acetocetoxy functionality.
• Lehigh University Study: Determination of monomor droplet size distributions in miniemulsions
  In this work, the droplet size and size distribution of miniemulsions have been characterized using, with adaptation, particle sizing techniques. University researchers will review a combination of techniques that should be employed to fully observe the DSD (droplet size distribution).

If you are interested in exhibiting at the 2008 conference or sponsoring an event, please contact Don Sector at 330-865-6107, dsector@crain.com.

A Special 10 year Anniversary CD of all the International Latex Conference Papers presented from 1998 to 2007 is now available. Price is $250 (includes postage/handling). To review the paper titles or Order a CD Click Here.

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