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Webinar: Elastomer Blends
June 23, 2027 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
June 23, 2027; 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
Webinar Overview: Few rubber products rely on a single elastomer. Blending lets compounders balance cost, processing and performance, but only when the polymers, fillers and cure system work together. This webinar explains why elastomers are blended, what controls compatibility and blend structure, and how to avoid common problems such as fillers and curatives moving unevenly between the polymer phases.
Webinar Focus:
- Why elastomers are blended: performance, processing and cost
- Compatibility, miscibility and blend morphology
- How fillers and curatives distribute between polymer phases
- Common blend systems such as NR/BR, SBR/BR, NBR/PVC and EPDM blends
- How mixing methods affect blend properties
- Troubleshooting blend performance in tire and industrial products
Audience: Compounders, chemists and product developers who combine elastomers to balance cost, processing and performance in tire and industrial rubber products. Best suited to those with a technical background.
Category: Compounding & Formulation; Materials & Chemistry
Price: Free for Members / $99 Non-members
Instructor: Brendan Rodgers
Bio: Brendan is based in Austin Texas and has spent 42 years working in the tire and rubber industry with both The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and ExxonMobil. Currently, he has a consulting and engineering company based in Austin, Texas. He has worked on a broad range of tire and industrial rubber products including hydraulic hose and conveyor belts, materials technology and product design. Brendan has had work assignments in the United States, China, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg working on original equipment automobile tires, truck tires, industrial rubber products and new tire materials technologies. He is the originator of a broad range of patents in tire and rubber technology and many industry publications including editor of the text, Rubber Compounding, Chemistry and Applications, and author of the text, Tire Engineering, both published by CRC Press. Brendan has a PhD in chemical engineering from The Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he studied thermodynamics, heat transfer through large rubber sections and vulcanization kinetics. He has a master’s degree in Polymer Technology, also from The Queen’s University and a BSc in Biological Chemistry from The University of Ulster.