About the Book
TPEs continue to show healthy growth compared with most other polymeric materials, due to their unique combination of elastomeric properties with thermoplastic processibility. This 8th international conference on thermoplastic elastomers featured 25 papers from top experts on TPE materials, processing and applications. Applications for TPEs were strongly featured at this years' event, examples being automotive airbag covers and glass run channels, sports applications and extruded products. There were also presentations on the use of TPEs in recycling polymer products such as tyres and other 'end of life' vehicle components. Processing developments focused on adhesion, cellular TPE, multi-component moulding and product design. TPV developments included examples of the 'super TPVs' with enhanced properties, such as acrylate, ethylene acrylate and silicone types, other TPVs such as natural rubber and EPDM based, the use of silicon technology to enhance properties, and research into manufacturing techniques. Block copolymer advances included TPUs with greater softness and polyether block amide developments.
Table of Contents:
Paper 1 - The thermoplastic elastomer scene in 2005 Barry Statham, Consultant, UK SESSION 1. DEVELOPMENTS IN TPVS Paper 2 - A new thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) with differentiated properties in comparison with EPDM based TPV Daniel Milesi & Pierre Rousseau, Multibase SAS a Dow Corning Company, France Paper 3 - Engineering TPV for extrusion applications Anke Sutschek,Orvar Otterstedt, Mark Jacobs, Coreen Lee & H. Chul Lee, DuPont de Nemours Intl. S.A., Switzerland Paper 4 - Si-based technology for thermoplastic vulcanizates Valerie Smits & Thierry Materne, Dow Corning S.A., Belgium Paper 5 - An innovative way of dynamic vulcanization of EVA in the presence of PP: chemical, processing and mechanical properties Prof. Philippe Cassagnau, Dr. Catherine Joubert and Dr. Alain Michel, University of Lyon, France SESSION 2. TPES FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS Paper 6 - Polyolefin resin for airbag application - morphology of soft resin and parts performance Nadeem Bokhari, Autoliv North America; Hiroshi Toyoda & Kousuke Ohtani, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan Paper 7 - The influence of painting systems on TPVs in low temperature deployment behaviour of airbag doors Herman Vos, DSM Thermoplastic Elastomers, The Netherlands Paper 8 - Development of new TPV sponge materials and foaming systems for dynamic automotive weatherseals Jere Anderson, Trexel Inc., USA & Eric Jourdain, Santoprene specialty products of ExxonMobil Chemical, Belgium Paper 9 - TPV for hidden door frames Ger Vroomen, DSM Thermoplastic Elastomers, The Netherlands & Klaus-Peter Maass, GDX-Grefrath, Germany SESSION 3. NATURAL RUBBER BASED TPVS Paper 10 - Natural rubber based TPVs for improved performance Dr. Stuart Cook, J. Patel & Dr. Andrew Tinker, Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC), UK SESSION 4. TPES FROM RECYCLED MATERIALS Paper 11 - Further advances in developing quality automotive products by incorporating end of life vehicle parts Gary Pollard, Vita Thermoplastic Compounds Ltd., UK Paper 12 - Reprocessable recycling TPEs from rubber powder - mechanical properties and applications of shore A types Dr. Henrik Scholz & Dr. Armin Dittmar, Faru GmbH, Germany Paper 13 - Thermoplastic elastomers based on ground rubber tyre Prof. Eduard Prut, Tatiana Medintseva, Olga Kuznetsova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia SESSION 5. STYRENIC TPEs Paper 14 - New thermoplastic elastomer "TU-Polymer" Mizuho Maeda, Kuraray Europe GmbH, Germany Paper 15 - A novel robust polyamide overmold thermoplastic elastomer John Simons, Krishna Venkataswamy, Jiren Gu & Walter Ripple, GLS Corporation, USA Paper 16 - SBS-block copolymer with unique structure and properties Robert Huber, BASF AG, Germany Paper 17 - Comparing elongational behaviour of SBS and SEBS copolymers in the melt state Dr. Fabio Bacchelli, Polimeri Europa S.p.A., Italy Paper 18 - The role of polyisobutylene in TPE formulations Patrick Ellis, Alain Prevot & Xavier Tassel, Polytechs SA, France SESSION 6. THERMOPLASTIC URETHANES (TPU) Paper 19 - Without plasticizers - non plasticised thermoplastic polyurethane Andreas Tiemann & Rolf Steinberger, Elastogran GmbH, Germany Paper 20 - Soft TPU - design and applications Georg Fuchte, Bayer MaterialScience AG, Germany SESSION 7. POLYAMIDE TPEs Paper 21 - PEBA - high performance TPEs for sports applications Dr. Martin Wielpuetz & Michael Beyer, Degussa AG High Performance Polymers, Germany SESSION 8. COPOLYESTER TPE Paper 22 - New developments in the application of TPE-E in breathable film Francis Aussems, DSM Engineering Plastics, The Netherlands SESSION 9. PROCESSING TPEs Paper 23 - Bonding TPEs with cyanoacrylate adhesives Bob Goss, Henkel Loctite Adhesives Ltd., UK Paper 24 - Multi-component mould technologies and the possibilities for design of products Klaus Rahnhoefer, Demag Plastics Group, Germany Paper 25 - Corner moulding - combined TPE-EPDM injection Armin Stutz, LWB Steinl GmbH & Co KG, & Hans-Volker Buchholz, Meteor Gummiwerke, German
