About the Book
Now in its 12th year, this leading additives, modifiers and compounding conference saw papers presented on the latest additives, including stabilisers and research on the stability of plastics, antistatic and antifogging agents, nanocomposites, flame retardants, fillers, slip, repellents and biocides. There were also papers on innovative masterbatch technology.
Table of Contents:
SESSION 1. THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - MARKETS AND LEGISLATION Paper 1 Polyolefin additives - 'the looming supply shift'
Ron Babinsky, Townsend Polymer Services & Information, USA Paper 2 Legislation and testing of food contact plastics - an update with respect to additives
John Sidwell, Rapra Technology, UK Paper 3 REACH regulations - issues going forwards
Dr Hector Galicia, Springborn Smithers Laboratories (Europe), Switzerland Paper 4 Distribution from the point of view of a strategic portfolio additive provider/manufacturer
Pascal Brocard, Patrik Edstrom & Ulf Kratz, Omya Distribution Services, Switzerland SESSION 2. STABILITY OF PLASTICS Paper 5 The ester thiol technology for the stabilization of PVC
Dr William H. Starnes, Jr, B. Du, S. Kim, V.G. Zaikov, X. Ge, E.K. Culyba & P.M. Krai, College of William and Mary, USA Paper 6 Stabilization of photosensitive colorants by nano-sized UV-absorbers
Dr Boris Gorelik, I. Baumberg, O. Berezin, V. Voskobojnik & A. Drabkin, Elam EL Industries Ltd, Israel Paper 7 Stability study on polypropylene nanocomposites
Kshama Motha & Johannes Wolfschwenger, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Austria SESSION 3. FLAME RETARDANTS Paper 8 Update of flame retardancy by nanocomposites for EVA, PVC and PE
Dr Gunter Beyer, Kabelwerk EUPEN AG, Belgium Paper 9 New development in PTFE-based anti-dripping additives
Dr Joris Briers, 3M Belgium NV, Dyneon Specialty Additives, Belgium SESSION 4. ANTISTATIC AND ANTIFOG AGENTS Paper 10 New innovative antistat and antifog additives for PE and PP film
Bjarne Nielsen, Danisco Emulsifiers, Denmark Paper 11 A novel permanent antistatic agent
Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, DuPont de Nemours Intl SA, Switzerland and Toshihisa Toyoda, Daisuke Matsuzaki & Kenji Miharu, DuPont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co Ltd, Japan SESSION 5. FILLERS Paper 12 Spherical glass microspheres used as functional fillers for performances enhancement
Jean-Philippe Curdy, Potters Europe, UK Paper 13 Titanate and zirconate coupling agents
Salvatore J. Monte, Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc, USA SESSION 6. NUCLEATING AGENTS Paper 14 A new beta nucleant masterbatch for use in producing unique film, thermoformed, and injection molded polypropylene products
Philip Jacoby, Mayzo, Inc, USA Paper 15 Recent developments in nucleation of polypropylene
Estibaliz Santamaria, Liam Killough & Hieu-Dinh Phan, RiKA International Ltd, UK Paper 16 Design of clarified polypropylene with a novel clarifier
Dr Naoshi Kawamoto, Dr Mitsuru Fukushima & Toshinori Yukino, ADEKA Corporation, Japan SESSION 7. SLIP AND LUBRICANT ADDITIVES Paper 17 Recent advances in slip additives
Adam Maltby, Croda Chemicals, UK Paper 18 Room temperature ionic liquids as new lubricant additives of polymers and polymer nanocomposites
M.D. Bermudez, F.J. Carrion, J. Sanes & G Martinez-Nicolas, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain SESSION 8. REPELLANTS AND BIOCIDES Paper 19 Environment friendly animal repellents masterbatches
Bruno Jalenques, C-Tech Europe, France Paper 20 Tetra-substituted dithiooxamides and p-phenylene diamine as additives for biofilm resistant plastic materials
Svoboda V. Tabakova & Vera V. Mircheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria SESSION 9. MASTERBATCHES Paper 21 Innovative anti-counterfeit solutions for plastics
Marc Leifer & Dan Lewitus, Kafrit Industries-Alqemia Group, Israel Paper 22 Plastics additives super concentrates made with porous polymer carriers
Dr Hartmut Stenzel, Membrana GmbH/Accurel Systems, Germany SESSION 10. STABILISERS AND ANTIOXIDANTS Paper 23 Exploitation of the complex chemistry of HAS in effective plastics stabilization
Dr J. Pospi'il, J. Pilar, S. Ne'purek & A. Marek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Paper 24 Addition of natural antioxidants to polyolefins formulations
Dr Jose Lopez Vilarino, C. Noguerol, M. Villaverde, J. Sabin & M.V. Gonzalez, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
