To meet the market demands there are many technical developments in hand by TPE manufacturers and compounders such as greater thermal, oxidative and weathering stability; softer grades of premium TPEs; improved properties such as resilience, oil resistance, flammability, smoke emission, fogging, adhesion and transparency; foamable grades; and improved co-processibility. New types of dynamically vulcanized TPEs with improved properties, melt mixing as a low cost route to new types of TPE, and metallocene catalysed polyolefin materials are examples of developments pushing the boundaries even further.
Paper 1 The thermoplastic elastomer scene in 2004
Mr. Barry Statham, Polymer Consultant, UK
SESSION 2: ADVANCES IN THERMOPLASTICS VULCANISATES
Paper 2 Changing the game in TPVs, formulating advantages
Dr. Gary Williams, Du Pont Dow Elastomers, USA
Paper 3 New thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) with improved UV resistance and fogging properties
Mr. Alberto Dozeman, Yundong Wang, Hua Cai & Ryszard Brzoskowski, DSM Thermoplastic Elastomers, The Netherlands
Paper 4 New thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) with improved processibility for injection moulding applications
Dr. Jan-Tom Fernhout, Yundong Wang, Hua Cai & Ryszard Brzoskowski, DSM Thermoplastic Elastomers Inc, USA
Paper 5 New developments in TPV
Mr. Brendan Chase, Advanced Elastomer Systems NV/SA, Belgium
Paper 6 150°C heat and oil resistant TPVs - long-term fluid and spike temperature comparison
Mr. Jeff Dickerhoof, Sam Harber & Brian Cail, Zeon Chemicals, USA
SESSION 3: PROCESS OILS
Paper 7 Process oils for TPE
Dr Arnaud Mahay, Exxonmobil, France
Paper 8 Group II process oils
Robert Plummer and Gene Robinson, Chevron Texaco Global Lubricants, USA
SESSION 4: RUBBER MARKETS
Paper 9 Rubber trends and analyses
Mr. Darren Cooper, Dr. Prachaya Jumpasut & Dock No, IRSG, UK
SESSION 5: AUTOMOTIVE MARKETS
Paper 10 Inter-TPE competition in an expanding global automotive market
Mr. Robert Eller, Robert Eller Associates Inc, USA
SESSION 6: ADVANCES IN STYRENIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS
Paper 11 Superior aesthetics – performance – process – the new generation of TPE
Dr Hans Peter Wolf (Germany), Sophie Bechu & Alexis von Tschammer (France), Dow Corning/Multibase
Paper 12 New unique HSBC (hydogenated styrenic block co-polymer) with reactive hard blocks
Mr Katsunori Takamoto, Kuraray Europe GmbH, Germany
Paper 13 Crosslinked SBR in block copolymer compounds to achieve certain EPDM TPV performance
Dr Manoj Ajbani, Goodyear Chemical Division, USA
SESSION 7: ADVANCES IN OTHER THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS
Paper 14 New test methods for the characterization of thermoplastic elastomers
Prof Norbert Vennemann and Klaus Bökamp, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany and Synco De Vogel, Kevin Cai, Satchit Srinivasan(Solvay Engineered Polymers), Germany
Paper 15 Phase behaviour and structure of high hard block content polyurethanes
Dr Alberto Saiani, University of Manchester, UK
Paper 16 Phase-separated microstructures of all-acrylic thermoplastic elastomers
Dr Philippe Leclére, Universite de Mons
SESSION 8: DEVELOPMENTS IN PROCESSING
Paper 17 The potential of processing additives to improve extrusion performance of TPE-V compounds
Dr Lutz Kirchner, Mr Steffen Foese and Dr Joachim Bertrand, Schill & Seilacher "Struktol" AG, Germany
Paper 18 TPE in the profiling industry
Mr Peter Nagl, LWB Steinl GmbH & Co KG, Germany
Paper 19 Mould technology for multi-component injection moulding
Klaus Rahnhoefer, Demag Plastics Group, Germany
Paper 20 Moulding simulation for the thermoplastic elastomers
Wim Schermerhorn, Sigmasoft, Germany