February 2025
The February issue of Rubber World Magazine is now available online. This issue focuses on Carbon Black, Silica and Reinforcing
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APDS: Novel additives for improving NR compounds with surface modified carbon black
Aminophenyl disulfides (APDS) are easier to handle and benefit even higher performance elastomers in combination with surface modified carbon blacks.
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Sustainable carbon black
A method for producing a more sustainable carbon black (sCB) by producing it from a circular raw material instead of a finite raw material is presented. The method utilizes tire pyrolysis oil produced from end-of-life tires, said to be an attractive alternative feedstock source versus traditional petroleum products.
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Truck tire tread compound development using low hysteresis carbon black
Performance properties of a surface treated low hysteresis carbon black (Continext-LH) compound in a natural rubber tread formulation are compared with those of a conventional N234 low hysteresis version and show that the new material had significantly improved rolling resistance and directional improvement in damage resistance without negative effects or trade-offs in wet traction and wear resistance.
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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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Patents for February 2025
Patents as compiled by the editors of Rubber World Magazine for February. Polyolefin Elastomer in Multi-Packaging CarrierU.S. Patent: 12,031,018Issued: July
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January 2025
The January 2025 issue of Rubber World is now available online. In this issue we cover the following topics for Testing
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Reverse engineering mechanical properties of elastomers
Re-engineering vibration isolation components using the free oscillation Dynamic Yerzley Oscillograph offers improvements in the performance of vibration sensitive systems.
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DeMattia fatigue test with automatic storage and AI analysis
An innovative system combines the DeMattia test method with advanced data acquisition, AI driven analysis and an environmental chamber to simulate various thermal conditions.
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Time-temperature superposition test parameters are used to determine the accuracy of fit
Optimized test parameters are used to determine the accuracy of fit for various filled and unfilled compounds
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