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
Presentation by Gerd Schmaucks.
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
Presentation by Gerd Schmaucks: "Amorphous Silicon Dioxide as Additive to Improve the Fire Retardancy of Polyamides"
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!
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!
Stuart presented at Vinyltec 2007, Oct. 15th-17th, and we enjoyed our visits with those of you who stopped by our tabletop display!

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

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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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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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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