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Akron, OH – The Rubber Division, ACS announced that limited exhibit space is still available at the 2022 International Elastomer Conference Expo. This year’s expo is going to be one you don’t want to miss. The floor plan features a variety of booth sizes and for the first time on an even-year expo several 400 sq. ft. spaces and larger have been sold! Our expo is the premier place where our industry’s customers and suppliers come together. It features a wide variety of companies, such as equipment manufacturers, injection molders, extruders, custom mixers, processing equipment, hydraulic presses, vacuum molding, testing labs, distributors, suppliers, and many more in the industry.

– Hankook Tire & Technology (Hankook Tire) announced the opening of Hankook Technoring, a new proving ground in Taean, South Korea. The largest proving ground in Asia, it will serve as a state-of-the-art R&D facility for Hankook’s most advanced products to come.

To meet growing demand for silicone rubber, Wacker Chemie AG is accelerating the expansion of its production capacities. Investment projects to this end are either in the planning stage or are nearing completion. Significant capacity expansions for liquid silicone rubber (LSR) will be available in the second half of this year, and will come into full effect in 2023. Increasing production volumes for high consistency rubber (HCR) are also scheduled. With expansion measures at several other sites, WACKER will gradually increase its capacities for HCR and LSR grades significantly in the next few years. Over € 100 million have been earmarked for this capacity boost.

A boundary-pushing approach to hacking carbon reduction challenges has been established by AkzoNobel and partners from across the extended value chain following the company’s first ever global Collaborative Sustainability Challenge.

Mercedes-Benz has chosen Continental tire technology for the C-Class, too. With the PremiumContact 6 and EcoContact 6, the automobile manufacturer is factory-fitting its current model series with not one but two premium tire models. The PremiumContact 6 (18″) and EcoContact 6 (17″) have both been granted original equipment approval

At this year’s Tire Technology Expo in Hannover, Germany, VMI launches the VMI REVOLUTE. The VMI REVOLUTE automatic bead apex assembly system, designed to complement VMI’s existing bead apexing solution, speeds production time per item (almost double that of the next best performing VMI system) and opens up new options for tire design and performance (higher apex than any other on the market, greater variety of compounds), whilst delivering increased levels of automation.

In two separate incidents on consecutive days in November 2021, three workers at a southern Illinois tire plant suffered severe injuries in incidents associated with a mixer containing a combustible dust and a flammable gas, guarding moving equipment and the failure to implement and enforce procedures to control the unintentional energization of equipment during servicing.

Akron, OH – The Rubber Division, ACS annually honors the best of the best with the most prestigious awards in our industry with their Science & Technology Awards. Winners are celebrated at a banquet that takes place during our spring technical meeting and each winner gives a presentation in the afternoon technical session following the banquet. The Rubber Division is accepting nominations for the awards listed below.

Yokohama Tire Corporation announced it will implement a price increase on its consumer replacement tires and commercial truck tires sold in the U.S., effective July 1. The increase is in response to the unparalleled rise in costs associated with materials and operations.”

Call for Abstracts for the 2022 International Elastomer Conference, Technical Meeting & Student Symposium has been extended to May 25th. The Rubber Division, ACS invites your submissions for inclusion in the International Elastomer Conference Technical Meeting & Student Symposium October 11-13, 2022 in Knoxville, TN. Join the leading researchers and innovators in the rubber/elastomer industry and share your expertise.