This paper will present an overview of curatives that are more eco-friendly but still appropriate and effective for various compound applications. Specifically, the area of reducing or eliminating carcinogenic nitrosamine-generating curatives will be explored.

This paper will describe the phenomenology of the interaction of tread enhancement additives with these polymer systems and characterize the magnitude of performance improvements.

Conveyor belts are commonly used for transporting a wide variety of materials. However, market drivers are progressively demanding larger size, higher strength and total length up to several kilometers, to increase transport volume and enhance
transport efficiency.

This report summarizes new Nordel EPDM product developments for dense weatherstrip applications; an efficient Design of Experiment-based formulation approach for developing compounds with balanced processability and physical properties; and Nordel EPDM technical solutions for automotive dense weatherstrip applications.

It is a challenging task for many of the thermoset EPDM rubber product manufacturers to meet the continuing increase in CUTR requirements and other more stringent design criteria for auto parts, such as under-the-hood coolant hose, wire and cable, and others

For the rubber industry, there currently are 346 ASTM International standards and 441 ISO standards in use globally. This paper will review the scope of these ASTM International and ISO standards used throughout the rubber world, briefly comparing them by categories such as rubber processing tests, chemical tests, physical tests of vulcanizates, specifications for compounding materials and a variety of product tests including automotive products, hose and latex, among others.

Rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz) produces natural rubber (cis-1,4,-polyisoprene), almost identical to rubber from the tropical rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), in root latex vessels (laticifers). Cost-effective field production is not yet possible because of low rubber content, slow growth rates, poor competition with weeds and short season when crops are established by economical direct seeding instead of expensive transplants.

The purpose of this study is to better understand the potential three routes (compound changes) to improve wet and dry traction of a model tire tread compound.

Precipitated silica use can improve the in-service performance of passenger car radial tires by increasing the wet traction, reducing rolling resistance, and maintaining tread wear life if dispersed to a similar degree as carbon black.