Past Conferences and Presentations

Below you will find the past conferences attended by our SIDISTAR® team.  In some cases, presentations were made, and some are available as pdf downloads below.  For others not noted here, please kindly contact us directly at info@sidistar.com



Last modified: 2008-07-01


Speciality Silica Conference - April 29-30, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain

Presentation by Gerd Schmaucks. 


10th International PVC Conference - April 22-24, 2008 - Brighton Dome, UK

Presentation by Stuart MacDonald, entitled "Sidistar, New Additive for the PVC Formulator - With Practical Case Studies". Conference website: http://www.iom3.org/events/pvc08.htm

 




5th Fire & Polymers Symposium (ACS) - April 6-10, 2008 - New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Presentation by Gerd Schmaucks: "Amorphous Silicon Dioxide as Additive to Improve the Fire Retardancy of Polyamides"

 




Tire Technology Expo 2008 - Feb. 19-21 - Cologne, Germany

 In it's eighth year, the Tire Technology Expo is one of the world's most important tire manufacturing technology   exhibitions and conferences.  Elkem was proud to be represented by its Sidistar team at the expo in Cologne during these days in February.  We thank those of you who stopped by our stand, F14, during the Expo!      




ACS Rubber Expo - Oct. 16-18, 2007 - Cleveland, Ohio

The ACS Rubber Expo, the only show that focuses exclusively on rubber and rubber-related products, celebrated its 30th Anniversary at the Cleveland Convention Center this year, and the Elkem Materials Sidistar team was there! We enjoyed visiting with those of you who stopped by our booth!


Vinyltec 2007, Oct. 15-17 - Iselin, New Jersey

Stuart presented at Vinyltec 2007, Oct. 15th-17th, and we enjoyed our visits with those of you who stopped by our tabletop display!

 




FRPM07, Bolton UK 4-6 July 2007


11th European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymers UK
FRPM 07
4-6 July 2007
Albert Halls, Bolton, UK
Hosted by the University of Bolton's Fire Materials Research Group

 

www.frpm07.com




Tire Technology Expo 2007, Cologne, March 13-15

Dr. Gerd Schmaucks of Elkem Materials presented a joint-effort paper (Elkem Materials and Trayal Corporation) on "Effect of SIDISTAR®, a speciality silica, on winter tyre tread compound properties and tyre performance". 


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Wood-Plastic Composites 2007, Feb 6-8 - Vienna, Austria

Sidistar Team member Dr. Gerd Schmaucks presented a paper titled: "Comparative study of the effect of mineral additives on the properties of WPC based on PVC").

 


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ADDITIVES 2007, January 22-24, San Antonio

Paper presented by Dr.Gerd Schmaucks, Elkem AS, Materials

"A New Unique Type Amorphous Silicon Dioxide as Performance Additive for Thermoplastics"


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