Both synthetic and natural latices were covered in this conference, including natural rubber latex, high volume synthetic emulsions, such as SBR, as well as specialty products, such as acrylics. Application markets addressed included adhesives and sealants, carpet backing, paper coatings, construction, fabrics, foamed articles, medical gloves, medical devices, textile threads, condoms and others. The latex industry is in dynamic flux at the present time. The supply side has undergone major restructuring. Inter-materials competition has intensified as improved materials become capable of challenging incumbent materials. Many serious issues face the latex industry, such as continuing price depression in some sectors, rising technical demands as well as substantial legislative and environmental pressure. Despite the challenging times facing the industry, the overall prospects for latex are very positive. Substitution of solvent based products continues, the performances of latices continues to improve in such applications as adhesives and the glove industry is responding positively to the setbacks of the allergy controversy. 9 million dry tons and has spread across a wide range of industrial and consumer markets. Growing demand in medical and strong prospects in construction are just two of the positive trends that will continue to fuel the market growth of both natural and synthetic latices. As last year's conference demonstrated, the Rapra International Latex Conference is an unparalleled forum for developing understanding of the latex industry, technical trends and market driving forces, such as new legislation. The 2002 event provided a vital meeting point for the synthetic and natural latex communities of Europe, Asia and America. This conference will be of interest to all latex stakeholders, including: feedstock suppliers, latex producers, compounders, fabricators of consumer, medical and industrial articles based on latex, traders and distributors, machine and equipment suppliers, legislators, healthcare professionals and users of latex based products.

The term latex covers emulsion polymers, polymer dispersions and polymer colloids. This review report provides a general overview of the emulsion polymerisation processes and explains how the resulting latices are used in industrial applications. The classes of emulsion polymers are surveyed and the commercial technologies and potential future uses discussed. An additional indexed section containing several hundred abstracts from the Polymer Library gives useful references for further reading.

Latex 2004 provided a valuable update on the latest trends and developments in synthetic emulsions, natural latex and latex based products. The conference covered both synthetic and natural rubber latex materials, additives as well as developments in important end market applications, such as adhesives, carpet backing, condoms, foamed products, gloves, non wovens, paints, textiles and many others. Topics discussed included new materials and chemicals, machinery and equipment developments, standards & regulatory requirements, quality enhancements, and market trends. List Of Papers...Session 1: Market And Industry Reviews; An Economic and Statistical Overview of Rubber Latices Dock No, Darren Cooper & Prachaya Jumpasut, International Rubber Study Group, UK; Global Latex Technologies and Markets; Richard Beswick, bms AG, Switzerland & Dave Dunn, bms Inc, USA; Session 2: Raw Materials And Chemicals; Additives for the Latex Industry; Clara Petri, Schill + Seilacher Struktol, Germany; ZMTI Slurry and its Effect on Five Phenolic Antioxidants Carrie Webster; & Christopher Nola, R.T. Protection Bernd Unterweger, Biomontan, Austria; Safer Accelerators for the Latex Industry Roger Couchman & K B Chakraborty, Robinson Brothers Ltd, UK; Session 3: Manufacturing, Technology, Processing And Quality; De-Aeration Technology and Applications Johannes Popp, Netzsch-Feinmahltechnik GmbH, Germany; Compounding and Manufacture of Thin-Wall Latex Products Ray Russell-Fell, Consultant, UK; Grinding in Agitator Bead Mills - Technology and Applications Stefan Jung, Netzsch-Feinmahltechnik GmbH, Germany; Modern Synthetic Latex Production Volker Erb, PolymerLatex GmbH & Co, Germany; Quality Aspects of Condom Manufacturing in the 21st Century David Hill, SSL International, UK; Session 4: Fundamental Research In Latex; Recent Technical Surveillance of Extractable Protein Content of Latex Condoms Ong Eng Long, Malaysian Rubber Export Promotion Council, Malaysia; New Fundamental Research with Natural Rubber Latex Gunther Lottmann, Pica De Hule SA, Guatemala; Extractable Protein Levels of Latex Gloves Do Not Relate to Allergen Levels Found in Powder on Gloves Dan Olson, Charter Pipeline, USA; Surface Treatments to GmbH, Germany 191; Session 4: Materials Competition & Developments In End Use Markets; The Anatomy of Inter-Material Competition in Synthetic Latex Polymers: Japan and China LaVerne W. Ellerbe, Kline Group, USA & Ian Butcher, Kline Group, Belgium; Nanocomposite Barrier Coatings Harris A Goldberg, InMat Inc, USA; Quantum leap Polymer Innovation Performance Through Advanced Technology Management Wolfram Keller, P R T M, Germany; Rapra Technology 2004

This fourth international conference on latex brought together manufacturers, technologists and researchers with a common interest in latex applications and technology.

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