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Thermoplastic Elastomers Special Interest Group
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July 2014
The TPE SIG has recently completed two important annual events: our ANTEC® 2014 TPE session and our annual board elections. As I am sure you are all aware, ANTEC® 2014 was held in Las Vegas this year and we had another successful Thermoplastic Elastomers session featuring six papers from both industry and academic institutions, covering topics such as SEBS nanocomposites, novel PP-based OBCs, polyurethanes, COPEs, and devulcanized EPDM/PP blends.
I would like to thank our Technical Program Chair, Stephane Morin, and our session moderator, Tom Bell, for putting together and hosting a well-organized and well-attended TPE session.
Also in late April, we held our annual TPE SIG Board elections. I would like to thank all of the board members who served in positions this past year and thank those who are volunteering to serve this year, many of whom are continuing in their current roles. You can find a list of the elected TPE SIG officers at the end of the newsletter.
Our next big event is our biannual TPE TOPCON® to be held September 16 – 18, 2014 at the Hilton Akron/Fairlawn in Akron, Ohio. The theme for this year’s event will be “Building New Bonds”. Our two TPCs, Bill Blasius and Mark Berard, have put together a two-day agenda with nearly 30 talks on a range of TPE topics. This event will be a great opportunity to meet with other industrial and academic colleagues working on TPEs and to learn about the latest trends in the TPE field. Below is the current preliminary program for the conference.
Of course, it is never too early to start thinking about participating in our TPE session at ANTEC® 2015 as well. ANTEC® 2015 will be back in Orlando next year and will again be held in conjunction with the NPE International Plastics Showcase. The conference and tradeshow will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from March 23 – 27, 2015.
Again, I would like to thank everyone on the TPE SIG board for their excellent work and commitment over the past year and look forward to another great year ahead.
Sincerely,
Jeff MunroTPE SIG Chair 2014-2015
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Successful TPE Session at ANTEC® 2014 Comments from Moderator Tom Bell
Technical sessions of the TPE SIG were well attended. At times the meeting room, which could comfortably seat 50 people, was standing room only. Each of the six speakers made clear and well organized presentations of their respective papers. Topics covered included dielectric properties of TPE, new information on olefin block copolymers, the physics of golf ball deformation relative to TPU compositional materials, and detailed information on analytical methods for analyzing surface energy of films. Materials covered included TPU, COPE, SEBS, and TPV.
As a recap, these are the papers that were presented during this TPE session:
• High Performance and Wear Resistant Co-Polyester Elastomers (COPE) by Mukul Kaushik
• New Low Density and Low Hardness COPE by Mukul Kaushik
• Analysis of the Cure Compatibilization Efficiency of Peroxide/Sulfur System on Devulcanized EPDM & PP Blends, w/Reference to Devulcanized Tire Rubber and PP Blends by Prashant Mutyala
• Surface Energy of Polyurethane as a Function of Film Thickness by Meiyu Zhai
• Tuning the Compatibility of Polyolefins with PP Based Olefin Block Copolymers: Stiff, Tough and Clear
• Performance Attributes of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Golf Balls by Shane Parnell
• Thermal, Mechanical, Rheological and Dielectric Properties of Clay-Containing SEBS Nanocomposites: Effect of Morphology by Emna Helal
Technical Paper Coordinator: Stephane Morin
Meeting Minutes: TPE Special Interest Group BODSummary of Proceedings from June 13, 2014:
Proceedings:
1. Bill Blasius presented an update from the TOPCON 2014 Planning Committee.
a. 27 papers planned for presentation.
b. Conference sponsorships are needed and tabletop displays by BOD member’s companies are encouraged.
i. A gold level sponsor is in place along with a sponsor for the Tuesday evening mixer.
ii. A few tabletop displays have been reserved.
2. Bob Abell presented an update from the Membership Committee.
a. Bob Abell provided the formal 2013 membership report and analysis to the SIG BOD. The report is summarized below in this newsletter.
3. Kathy Schacht will provide the TPE SIG website committee with information (including cost) regarding “microsites” linked to the main (redesigned) SPE website.
4. Kathy Schacht presented an update from the SPE organization.
a. Gail Bristol will be retiring at the end of the summer
b. SPE HQ offices will be relocated by the end of July (still within CT).
i. Phone numbers are expected to remain the same.
c. Jeff Munro to resend the TPE SIG 2014-15 volunteer roster to Kathy Schacht.
d. ANTEC® 2014 “quite successful” (over 1700 attendees, 835 organizations represented, and over 470 presentations).
i. ANTEC® 2015 will be held at NPE (Orlando).
5. The next TPE SIG BOD meeting (teleconference) will be held on Friday, August 15th at 10:00 AM EDT.
Meeting minutes submitted by TPE SIG Secretary, Steve Brenno
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GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
The last year we had reliable TPE SIG membership data from SPE, on which to base an in-depth demographic analysis, was 2009, a year when our WW total had fallen from 3117 (~11%) to 2770. Thereafter, SPE completely changed their data handling system, resulting in unreliable membership data for the last three years, as even they admitted. While we still cannot determine how we lost so many members during those years, SPE believes that their currently supplied SIG membership data are accurate and stable enough to justify resuming demographic analyses.
This membership year (2013), SPE supplied two TPE SIG membership spreadsheets. The first was labeled “ACTIVE” MEMBERS and the second “SUSPENDED MEMBERS.” The former consisted exclusively of members with PAID UP SPE membership dues through December 31, 2013, with a WW total of 2251 members. The latter spreadsheet contained two separate groups totaling 805 “FORMER” TPE SIG members. The first 385’s SPE memberships expired at any time during 2012 and the second 420 memberships expired during 2013.
I do not consider this situation “stable.” Compared with our data for 2009, our 2013 WW membership total shows a loss of 519 members. However, during just the last two years of this time, SPE LOST 805 members, who were also members of the TPE SIG. The only way BOTH data sets can be correct is if off-setting “new” SPE members are selecting the TPE SIG when signing on, reducing our net loss to 519 members.
However, all of these losses of TPE SIG membership are directly tied to losses in SPE membership, and they should not be considered a signal of any decline in professional interest in TPEs.
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TPE DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS FOR THE 2013 MEMBERSHIP YEAR
W. R. Abell - SIG Membership Chair
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GEOGRAPHIC MEMBERSHIP DISTRIBUTION
Worldwide Membership Status (fig. 1 & 2)• As illustrated by figure 1, our total WW membership of 2251 has
regressed to where it had been somewhere between years of 2001 and 2002, completely wiping out our sizable membership gains of the intervening seven years, wherein our WW totals plateaued in the mid-3000s, peaking in 2006 at 3469 members (54% higher than 2013).
• North America’s current 1958 members, down 439 (18%) from the 2397 in 2009, continue to dominate TPE SIG membership, at 87% of the WW total. The North American membership’s loss was 84% of the WW loss (519).
• TPE SIG Members reside in 47 countries, most of which have fewer than 6 members – a few have only one. However, as shown on figure 2, the thirteen countries with at least 8 members (2133) represent ~95% of the WW total.
• Figure 2 also shows that North America, consisting of the U. S.’s 1840 TPE SIG members (~82%) plus 118 from Canada (~5%) dwarfs the combined membership of all other countries. Australia is a very distant third, with 31 members, followed by the U.K., India, and Germany with 23, 22 and 21 members, respectively.
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U.S. Membership Geographic Analysis (fig. 3 & 4)• Our U. S. members reside in all of the lower 48 states plus Puerto Rico (no
members in HI or AK), with a total of 1840.
• That total represents a loss of 387 (~17 %) in 2013 versus the 277 U.S. members we had in 2009.
• The 21 states with 20 or more members shown in figure 3, accounted for 1649 members or ~90+% of the U.S. membership – about the same percentage as they did in 2009.
• Ohio and Michigan again tied for the top spot, at an even 200 members each. The rest of the top 10 included TX (152), PA (131), CA (115), MA (110), IL (103), NJ (96), ending with WI and NC (each 61). They accounted for 1229 members, ~67% or the USA. Most states in the top 21 occupied similar rankings to prior years. Exceptions were that OR and VA made the cut for the 1st time, while MO, NH, RI and KY no longer did.
• In figure 4, I have arbitrarily assigned all states to one of four roughly definable U.S. regions. As in prior years, we see the Mid-West dominating, with 39% (722) of the U.S. members, followed distantly by the East region at (494) 27% and the South with (421) 23%. The Western Coast Region only represents about 11% (200) of the U.S. total. Of the high-membership states, OH, MI, IL, IN, WI, and MN are in the Mid-West, PA, MA, NJ, NY, and CT in the East, and TX, NC, GA, FL and TN in the South. The West is mainly carried by CA, WA and OR.
• Current practice of locating TPE TOPCONs in the Mid-West should continue to maximize attendance. None of the other regions have the geographical concentration of high membership states as does the mid-west.
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Professional Affiliation (fig. 5)• Of the 1840 U.S. members on our current SPE Roster, 124 (~7%) listed
no professional affiliation at all, and were therefore excluded from this analysis.
• Of the 1716 members who did list a professional affiliation, there were a total of 201 (11%) with some association (professors/grad students, etc.) with an academic institution.
• The remaining 1515 members (82% of the TOTAL U.S. membership) listed a specific affiliation with some element of the plastics industry and were the basis for this analysis.
• The vast majority of the >1000 highly-diversified companies listed were represented by from one to three members - very few with more than 5, even for very large and well-known participants in the plastics industry.
• Figure 5 shows the top 20 companies in terms of membership representation. In prior years, this graph showed all the companies who were represented by eight or more members. If I were to have done that this year, there would only have been 11 companies shown (143 members). To include 20 companies this year I had to go all the way to those with only six or more members. Even then, the total membership of these companies is only 200 (down from 281 in 2009), but the percentage of the U.S. membership (10.8%) was about the same. The top players of this group continue to be TPE suppliers, but a few end-users are also major participants.
SPE MEMBERSHIP STATUS OF TPE SIG MEMBERS
“Active” TPE SIG Members:
ALL of the 2251 TPE SIG members included in this demographic analysis were members in good standing with SPE, as of December 31, 2013. The SPE membership data were intentionally delayed until the end of February, 2014 to provide sufficient time to permit the payment of unintentionally delinquent SPE dues.
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Wednesday, September 22
Marketing
Global TPEs: New Technology, Regional Market Shifts, and Commoditization Bob Eller, Robert Eller Associates
How’d They Do It? How Leading TPE Suppliers Grew Their Businesses and What You Can Learn From Them Martin Pottle, Martin Thomas
DesignDesign Considerations for Multimaterial Molding of Thermoplastic ElastomersChris Alibozek, GW Plastics
Next Generation Experimentation and Optimization Software Strategies Nina Visconti, Quantisweb
State of the Art in Virtual Prototyping for Extruded and Co-Extruded Parts Hossam Metwally, ANSYS Inc.
Structural Applications
Fire Resistant Shakes and Siding Tom Kennedy, Chemical Innovative Solutions
Design and Branding - Building Lasting Relationships with Your Customers Rene Polin, Balance Product Development
Additive Technologies
Use of Pyrolysis GC-MS for the Optimisation of Stabilisers in SEBS-Compounds Dagmar Koppler, Allod
Use of CDI Stabilizers in TPE’s Don Stengel, Rhein Chemie
Esters Plasticizers for Thermoplastic Elastomers Performance EnhancementStephen Rourke, Hallstar
TPE TOPCON 2014 - PRELIMINARY PROGRAMSupport From Our Industry
Thanks to the Vi-Chem Corporation for allowing Richard Rabe
to stay active on the SPE TPE SIG
Vi-Chem Corporation produces thermo-plastic elastomers, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and PVC-based polymer alloy compounds to various industries in North and South Americas, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. It offers engineered thermoplastic, pre-colored plastic compound products, vinyl compounds, extruded and injection molded vinyl products, and color matched vinyl. The company also provides styrenic block copolymers, thermoplastic vulcanizates, thermoplastic polyolefins, and thermoplastic polyurethanes. It serves automotive, furniture, building and construction, food packaging and sealing, recreational, appliance, consumer goods, and other industries. Vi-Chem Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Richard joined Vi-Chem in February 2013, but has been “in the industry” since 1990 when he joined Monsanto’s Santoprene business unit. Richard has been a TPE SIG member since 1998 and on the SIG Board since 2002 having served as 2004 ANTEC® TPE session TPC, 2004/05 Chair and Newsletter editor for several years.
Thank you Richard Rabe.
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Wednesday, September 22 (continued)
Solid Phase Grafting-The Way to High Performance Modified PolymersDan Berg, BYK Chemie
Tailoring Dispersant Chemistries To Maximize Properties of Specific Filler-Elastomer CombinationsBill Dougherty, Total
New Development of Montmorillonite Nanoclay and Use as Additives in PlasticsTie Lan, Nanocor
Reactive Extrusion: Opportunity for Improved Performance Products and Manufacturing ProductivityPaul Andersen, Coperion
Production of TPE Sheets from Devulcanized EPDM Rubber and Polypropylene Blends on a Twin Screw ExtruderPrashant Mutyala, University of Waterloo
Thursday, September 23
Eco Elastomers
Eco-Flex* RTPV Recycled Rubber-Based Thermoplastic Elastomer - An Unusual Opportunity to Cut CostEdgar Gonzalez, Synesis
Biodegradable Elastomeric Compounds Stan Dudek, CD PolyTek
Production of TPE Sheets from Devulcanized EPDM Rubber and Polypropylene Blends on a Twin Screw Extruder Prashant Mutyala, University of Waterloo
TPE Advances
Elastomeric Cyclic Olefin CopolymersPaul Tatarka, Topas
Modified PEBA for Direct Adhesion to EFEP Sabine Fleming, Evonik
High Modulus Thermoplastic Polyurethanes: Properties and Processing Characteristics Bruce Lawrey, Bayer
Energy Management in Thermoplastic ElastomersTBD, PolyOne/GLS
AirCarbon: From Concept to Commercialization Mark Herrema, Newlight Technologies
A New Low Viscosity, Elasti SEBS Block Copolymer for Compounding and Elastic Fabric Applications John Flood, Kraton Polymers
Thermoplastic Polyurethane Solutions for Antistatic Applications Mark Kujawski, BASF
Heat Aging Performance and Chemical Resistance of New Low Density Hardness Thermoplastic Polyester Elastomers (TPC-ET) Mukul Kaushik, Celanese
Novel Thermoplastic Elastomers with Shape Memory Effect Liang Xu, PolyOne/GLS
Conceptual Review of Zythan TPU TechnologyRoger Huarng, Alliance Polymers
Heat Aging Performance and Chemical Resistance of New Low Density and Low Hardness Thermoplastic Polyester Elastomers (TPC-ET)Mukul Kaushik, Celanese
High Durable Styrene Block Copolymer Compounds Stan Dudek, CD PolyTek
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July 2014
Membership ChairW. Robert AbellPH: +1 [email protected]
Nominations Chair/LinkedIn LiaisonThomas E. BellPH: +1 [email protected]
TopCon 2014 Co-Chair Dr. Mark T. Berard PH: +1 225-309-0241 [email protected]
TopCon 2014 Co-Chair Bill BlasiusPH: +1 [email protected]
Secretary Steve BrennoPH: +1 [email protected]
Website ChairRichard Faulkner PH: +1 704-905-4771 [email protected]
Awards ChairLarry Johnson PH: +1 413-535-6733 [email protected]
Iani Manas PH: +1 [email protected]
ANTEC® 2014 TPC Stephane MorinPH: +1 [email protected]
TPE SIG Chair 2013-2014 Jeff C. Munro. Ph.D.PH: +1 [email protected]
Joseph E. PfeifferPH: +1 [email protected]
Richard L. Rabe, Ph.D.PH: +1 [email protected]
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Newsletter EditorArmando SardanopoliPH: +1 [email protected]
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Scholarship ChairEdwin Tam PH: +1 401-642-3753 [email protected]
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TPE SIG 2013 / 2014 BOARD MEMBERS AND CONTACTS
The TPE SIG is always looking for new Board members to help with planning and execution of various SIG activities such as ANTEC® sessions, the TPE TOPCON, scholarship programs, and PlastiVan™ visits. The TPE SIG Board meets face-to-face at ANTEC® every year, at the TPE TOPCON every other year, and by teleconference every six to eight weeks in between. As an incoming member, we ask for a three-year commitment from you and your employer. In return, we provide good networking opportunities and a word of appreciation for your company in one of our newsletters. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Tom Bell at +1 281-990-0909 or [email protected].
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