the surplus for vulcanized rubber thread and cord was nearly erased, checking in at $2.32 million; and the surplus for hygienic and pharmaceutical goods was trimmed by half to $2.13 million. On the ...

Increased demand for the rubber vulcanization process is attributed to the rising consumption of various rubber-based products in the medical and healthcare industry. Growing demand for numerous ...

Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar ...

Blends of GTR and devulcanized GTR with virgin natural rubber (NR) containing 60 phr of carbon black (CB) were prepared at GTR concentrations of 10, 20, 35 and 50 wt percent. The gel fraction, ...

Now, a team at Osaka University has achieved just that. They have developed a suite of plasma treatments to allow vulcanized rubber and the plastic PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) to adhere to one ...