Custom mixing and services directories for 2026
The March issue of Rubber World focuses on Custom Mixing and Compound and as part of this coverage we are
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Tech Service
A new low CO2 reinforcing filler
Ferro-Alloy Resources (FAR), a London, U.K. listed mining company with operations in Kazakhstan, recently announced plans to produce a new type of reinforcing filler as a carbon black substitute (CBS). When partially substituted for carbon black in a typical rubber formulation for passenger tire side-walls, there was no significant deterioration of performance in a battery of tests that were conducted, and there were several advantages. Moreover, there is a very significant reduction in CO2e emissions in the production of this material compared with the production of carbon black.
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Advanced perfluoroelastomers: The preferred sealing solution for oil and gas
The technology for sealing has considerably advanced since it was first developed in the late 1800s. It is crucial to
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Streamlining medical device assembly: The advantages of engineered silicone swelling fluids
In the ever-evolving world of manufacturing and industry, companies are constantly seeking innovative solutions to improve their processes, increase efficiency and reduce costs. One such breakthrough is the advent of engineered swelling fluids, a revolutionary technology that offers a myriad of benefits to various
industries, especially medical device manufacturing.
Metallurgical grade silicon metal and silicone rubber: A matter of national security
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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Controls help tire cord manufacturer improve performance of wire draw system
Global distributor Wesco and Siemens have teamed up with a
local integrator to enable a major Tennessee tire manufacturer to
achieve consistent tension and save money. As Chad Garner, a
Nashville based application engineer with distributor Wesco,
related: “We were presented with a significant challenge by one
of our great customers: a tire manufacturer in the area. They
needed to upgrade their multiple wire drawing machines for tire
cord production in the plant.”
Scalable rubber devulcanization manufacturing process developed
Rubbintec Inc. has developed and patented an innovative and scalable rubber “devulcanization” manufacturing process that cleanly and efficiently recovers high quality rubber from waste tires on an industrial scale. The recovered rubber can easily be revulcanized to make new rubber products, such as rubber mats, conveyor belts, footwear soles, rubber flooring, liners, membranes, field covers, railway sleeper pads, railway sleepers and tire treads, to name a few. A certain percentage of the devulcanized material can also be added to a tire manufacturer’s rubber mix, which would assist tire manufacturers to be part of the circular economy and to make their production more sustainable. The selling price is said to be less than virgin rubber. Together with its collaborator, Polylema, production of asphalt modifiers that can substitute for SBS, at a lower cost, will also take place.
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Emissions control solutions for carbon black production exhaust gas
by Ernesto Vera-Castañeda, DuPont Clean Technologies Across the globe, governments and communities are focused on reducing pollutants that haveadverse environmental
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