About the Book
This leading additives, modifiers and compounding conference is now in its 11th year. This year's conference provided an opportunity to network with researchers and manufacturers from across the plastics industry. There was information on new developments and a chance to meet and discuss the issues for the industry in 2005. In this 2005 proceedings, there are overview papers from experts on markets and market forces (particularly European legislation) and technical sessions on processing aids, stabilizers, flame retardants, compatabilisers (coupling agents) antimicrobials, compounding, and additives that affect surface properties.
Table of Contents:
SESSION 1. THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - MARKETS AND LEGISLATION Paper 1 - A global overview of the Plastic Additives Industry - "Adding value has never been tougher" Ronald G Babinsky, Townsend Polymer Services & Information, USA Paper 2 - The plastics industry and REACH Dr Rudiger Baunemann, PlasticsEurope Deutschland, Germany Paper 3 - EU REACH chemicals scheme and alternatives to testing Dr Derek Knight, SafePharm Laboratories Ltd, UK SESSION 2. PROCESS AIDS AND NUCLEATING AGENTS Paper 4 - Faster, better, cheaper - the use of non-polar processing aids to improve efficiencies Dr Niall Marshall, Sasol Wax: Polymer Additives, South Africa Paper 5 - The mounting support for large particles in fluoropolymer process aids Steven Oriani, DuPont Performance Elastomers L.L.C., USA Paper 6 - A versatile family of nucleating and clarifying agents for isotactic polypropylene Prof Hans-Werner Schmidt, Markus Blomenhofer, Bayreuth University, Germany; Magnus Kristiansen and Paul Smith, ETH Zurich, Polymer Technology, Switzerland; Klaus Stoll, Dietmar Mader and Kurt Hoffmann, CIBA Specialty Chemicals, Switzerland SESSION 3. STABILIZATION 1 Paper 7 - High heat and UV stabilization of polyolefins used under demanding conditions Dr Vincenzo Malatesta, Dr Leonard Davis & Dr John Zenner, Cytec Industries Inc, USA Paper 8 - UV stabilisation with innovative blends Cindy Doumen , Klaus Keck-Antoine, Michael Kearns & Herwig Perck, Great Lakes Technology, Belgium Paper 9 - Advanced nanoparticle stabilisation systems for polyethylene, polystyrene and poly(vinyl chloride) Dr Robin McIntyre & Dr Gareth Wakefield, Oxonica Ltd, UK SESSION 4. FLAME RETARDANTS 1 Paper 10 - Technology advances in polycarbonate flame retardants James Innes & Ann Innes, Flame Retardants Associates, Inc., USA Paper 11 - Progress with nanostructured flame retardants Dr. Gunter Beyer, Kabelwerk Eupen AG, Belgium SESSION 5 ANTIMICROBIALS Paper 12 - Antimicrobials in food contact applications in the EU - a regulatory puzzle Dr Anna Gergely, Keller & Heckman LLP, Belgium Paper 13 - Impact of silver glass ceramic antimicrobial active ingredient on cold tolerant germs on refrigerator interiors Heinz Studer, SANITIZED AG, Switzerland SESSION 6. COMPATIBILISERS (COUPLING AGENTS) Paper 14 - Comparison of non polar filler and surface treatment agents Manfred Gloeggler, Dow Corning GmbH, Germany Paper 15 - Recent advances in maleic anhydride grafted coupling agents for filled polypropylene compounds Dr Mark Moody, William Sigworth, Leigh Allen & Abuzar Syed, Crompton Europe Ltd, UK SESSION 7. COMPOUNDING Paper 16 - Additive dosing requirements for an additive feeding system in today's compounding process Alfred Hauptli, K-Tron (Schweiz) AG, Switzerland Paper 17 - How to manufacture additive masterbatches on a twin-screw compounder Reinhard Herrmann, Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co KG, Germany SESSION 8. STABILISATION 2 Paper 18 - High performance phosphite stabilizer for polyolefins and engineering plastics Dr Don Stevenson & Dr Michael Jakupca, Dover Chemical Corp, USA Paper 19 - Influence of environmental stress on efficiency trials of plastics stabilizers Dr Jan Pospisil, Dr Jan Pilar & Prof Stanislav Nespurek, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Republic Paper 20 - Unexpected reactions / interactions of phosphites within polyolefin stabilisation Svein Jamtvedt & Dr Harry Oysaed, Borealis AS, Norway SESSION 9. FLAME RETARDANTS 2 Paper 21 - A new halogen free flame retardant technology for plastics - under development in Russia Peter Flanagan, Firestop Chemicals Ltd, UK Paper 22 - New phosphorus based flame retardants for E&E applications: a case study on their environmental profile in view of European legislation on chemicals and end-of-life (REACH, WEEE, RoHS) Dr. Adrian Beard, Clariant GmbH, and Dr. Thomas Marzi, Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute, Germany Paper 23 - More effective flame retardant systems for extruded polystyrene foams Rudi Borms, Y. Bar-Yaakov, I. Finberg, J. Scheinert and P. Georlette, ICL-IP /Eurobrom, The Netherlands SESSION 10. SURFACE AND IMPACT PROPERTY MODIFIERS Paper 24 - Novel modifiers for engineering polymers' impact modification Karlheinz Hausmann, DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, Switzerland
