A weekly look at new products, innovations

Editor's Note: Each week, Rubber & Plastics News will take a look at some of the rubber industry's new products and innovations on www.rubbernews.com. Does your company have a new product or new innovation? To be considered for inclusion in this recurring feature, email [email protected]

Smithers Rapra has released a Recycling and Reuse of Waste Rubberbook.

Smithers said this comprehensive review, with extensive up-to-date referencing, covers all aspects of rubber recycling, from its world market to the many novel technologies and processes that have been developed to reuse the material to manufacture added-value products.

One feature of the publication is describing the techniques used to devulcanize waste rubber so it can be reprocessed into high specification products, Smithers said. Additionally, the production of rubber crumb from waste rubber products and its use to manufacture a wide range of products also are covered, along with testing methods and quality protocols essential to ensuring rubber recycling can take its place in today's quality conscious world. Using waste rubber to generate energy and manufacture new materials, such as fuel oils and recovered carbon black also is covered.

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Elastocon TPE Technologies Inc. has released new STK grades for two-shot molding formulated as alternative to silicone gaskets.

Elastocon said the new grades were developed with high flow properties in a wide range of hardnesses—40 Shore A to 90 Shore A. The results are large or small products with improved, and less costly, benefits than silicone or other materials, Elastocon added. It also eliminates the need to physically or technically insert one part into another.

Suggested applications from Elastocon include seals or gaskets for lighting assemblies as well as buttons or knobs for appliances.

Special properties and benefits of the new TPEs include, according to Elastocon, include: high flow properties for use in complex parts; high impact resistance; good surface finish with excellent high impact resistance; resistant to most household cleaning products; and easily overmolds onto numerous substrates, among them PC, ABS, PC/ABS, acrylic, PBT, PS, PP, PE, copolyester and polyamides.

For more information on the new line of TPEs, visit www.elastocontpe.com.

Mahr Federal Inc., a member of the Mahr Group, has added wireless data capability to portable and bench gages.

Mahr Federal's line of mechanical comparative gages can be configured for wireless data transmission, the company said, with the addition of a MarCator 1086 or 1087 wireless digital indicator. The line includes a wide array of snap gages, ID & OD gages, fixed and adjustable bore gages, as well as depth and comparator stands.

Through the use of a MarConnect i-stick USB receiver and MarCom data management software, Mahr Federal said users can create simple and easy-to-use wireless gaging network applications. Each i-stick wireless receiver supports up to eight digital indicators with a range of up to 12 meters. MarCom software sends data to Excel spread sheets, text files or any MS application. Additionally, a virtual interface allows for integration of the data into third party SPC or machine tool compensation programs.

The combination of Mahr Federal's high performance comparative gages with an economical, user-transparent wireless data collection system provides the easiest way to upgrade and implement data collection for existing gages or new gaging requirements, Mahr Federal said. The delays and errors associated with manually collecting and recording data are eliminated, and the measuring process can run at its maximum speed and with the most secure collection format, the company claimed.

For more information, visit www.mahrfederal.com.