The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) announced grants totaling over $2.25 million for rubber recycling efforts in the state of Tennessee from the states’ Tire Environmental Act Program
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The November 2023 issue of Rubber World Magazine is now available online. Click here to read
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Performance of inorganic fillers in a latex wall coating is evaluated. Material performance properties analyzed include reflectance, emittance, tensile and
tear.
Challenges to producing nitrosamine and nitrosatable safe natural latex products are described by the author.
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Improving the balance between wet grip, rolling and wear resistance using performance hydrocarbon resins as an alternative to treated distillate aromatic extracted oil in tire tread compounds is examined.
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This follow-up to the 2023 International Elastomer Conference and Expo, held last month in Cleveland, Ohio, and published for the Rubber Division, ACS
by Lippincott & Peto, Inc., includes photographs and summaries of IEC events, including the Rubber Division, ACS Service Award recipients, 2023 scholarship winners, the Experience Elastomers Student Outreach Program, nomination information for the Rubber Division, ACS 2025 Science & Technology Awards, 2023 exhibitors, and details on the Rubber Division, ACS Spring Technical Meeting.
Metallurgical grade silicon metal (SiME) is essential to the production of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) silicone rubber, a material that is indispensable to modern life. As this article will show, metallurgical grade SiME, and not simply silicon, belongs on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Critical Materials List because of its importance to national security. Currently, the DOE’s Critical Materials List includes “silicon,” a term that is overly broad because it also includes elemental silicon and polysilicon.
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Patents as compiled by the editors of Rubber World Magazine for November 2023 Tire with intrinsic sealant containing intrinsic cellular
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Rubber Division, ACS annually honors the best of the best with the most prestigious awards in our industry – the Science & Technology Awards. The 2024 winners will accept these awards and be celebrated at a banquet hosted by Rubber Division, ACS and sponsored by Alpha Technologies on May 1, 2024 during the Rubber Division, ACS Spring Technical Meeting in Columbus, OH. Each Science & Technology Award Winner will also give a presentation in the technical session following the banquet.
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Enviro wins the Tyre Pyrolysis Award category at this year’s Recircle Awards. The award was established by several prominent actors in the rubber and tire industry and aims to recognize valuable contributions that promote a circular economy on a global scale. This is the third consecutive year Enviro has been recognized at the Recircle Awards.
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