TPE 2002

TPE 2002

Author: Conference Proceedings
ISBN 978-1-85957-317-4 

Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium, 24th- 25th June 2002

pages 160

$180.00
This international two-day conference is now firmly established as Europe's premier meeting place for the thermoplastics elastomers sector. The last three events which were held in London, Amsterdam and Brussels each brought together more than 200 key players involved in all stages of the TPEs supply chain.

The TPEs 2002 conference program featured expert presentations on key market trends, new application developments and the very latest material innovations.

SESSION ONE: INTRODUCTION AND MARKET TRENDS
Paper 1: Keynote - Thermoplastic Elastomers - Materials of Great Promise and Potential
Barry Statham, Consultant, UK
Paper 2: TPE Growth and Value Applications in Auto Interiors and Body Seals
Robert Eller, Robert Eller Associates, USA
Paper 3: Recent Trends and Outlook for Elastomers
Prachaya Jumpasut, International Rubber Study Group, UK

SESSION TWO: MATERIALS INNOVATION
Paper 4: Freedom to Innovate - The Changing Face of the TPE Industry
Roger Morgan, KRATON Polymers LLC, Germany
Paper 5: The Development of a New Elastomeric Homopolymer Polypropylene
Gian De Belder & Emily Boswell, Procter & Gamble, UK

SESSION THREE: BONDING AND ADHESION
Paper 6: New TPV Bonding Technologies
Juergen Kautt, Advanced Elastomer Systems, USA
Paper 7: Hard / Soft Combinations with THERMOLAST K (TPE-S): Material Combinations Processing Testing Method
Jörg Sänger, KRAIBURG TPE GmbH, Germany

SESSION FOUR: MATERIAL AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTS
Paper 8: "Case-Study": From Concept to Commercialisation
Tony Carroll, PolyOne Engineered Materials UK, UK
Paper 9: TPE and Wine: A Toast Deserving Combination
at van Veelen, Wittenburg BV, The Netherlands
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SESSION FIVE: AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS
Paper 10: Comparison of Sealing Performance between EPDM and TPV Weatherstrip Profiles
Zuoxing (Steven) Yu, Cooper Standard Automotive Canada Ltd, Canada
Paper 11: Development of a Polypropylene/Ethylene-octene Based TPE for Automotive Fluid Handling Applications
Tony McNally, P McShane, G M McNally W R Murphy M Cook & A Miller, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Paper 12: Evaluation of Slip Coat Materials Co-Extruded on TPVS for Automotive Weatherseal
Jan Tom Fernhout, Reza Sadeghi, Hua Cai, Chris La Tulippe, Ryszard Brzoskowski & Edwin Currie, DSM Elastomers, The Netherlands

SESSION SIX: ADVANCES IN MATERIALS PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
Paper 13: Dimerised Fatty Acid Technology for Rubbery Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers
Paul Cameron, Uniqema Ltd (ICI), UK

SESSION SEVEN: PROCESSING AND RECYCLING ISSUES
Paper 14: 3D Flow Simulation of TPEs
Lothar Kallien, Sigma Engineering GmbH, Germany
Paper 15: Foaming and Applications of TPV
Abdelhadi Sahnoune, Advanced Elastomer Systems, USA
Paper 16 A Method for the Multiple Recycling of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomers which Retains their Mechanical Strength Properties
Claude Hepburn (Professor of Polymer Engineering) & G Knox, UK