Addcon 2008 provided all who attended a complete picture: from the latest on REACH and the EU plastic legislation regarding additives as plasticisers and surface biocides, to the phenol free stabilisation of polyolefines and the compounding of new reactive TPEs to adhere to glass and metal. Addcon 2008 Conference covered it all.

Drawing authorities from industry and academia, all Technical papers are now available for general release.  The technical papers presented are:

SESSION 1 THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND LEGISLATION

Paper 1 BRICs-foundation for emerging market growth
Ron Babinsky & Fred Gastrock, Townsend Polymer Services & Information, USA

Paper 2 Managing risks with REACH supply chain communication
Ms Eeva Punta, REACHWAY Oy, Finland

Paper 3 Update of EU plastic legislation for food contact applications regarding additives as plasticizers and surface biocides Dr Luigi Rossi, Keller & Heckman LLP, Belgium

SESSION 2 COMPOUNDING

Paper 4 How to manufacture additive masterbatches on twin screw compounders
Dipl Ing Frank Lechner, Reinhard Herrmann, Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co KG, Germany

Paper 5 Economic solutions in modern feeding processes
Otto Rothlin, K-Tron Ltd, Switzerland

Paper 6 Development of highly filled compounds based on high temperature thermoplastics Dipl Ing Thomas Apeldorn, TU Hamburg Harburg; Professor V Altstädt & UA Handge, University of Bayreuth; H Kurz, V W AG & O Lühnen, Lehmann und Voss, Germany

Paper 7 Study on the factors affecting the dynamic mixing characteristics during compounding Dr Anthony C-Y Wong, Ngai Hing Hong Co Ltd, Hong Kong & The University of Hong Kong; C K M AuYeung, Ngai Hing Hong Co Ltd, Hong Kong; F T Kong, H Qiao & L F Wu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Paper 8 Compounding of new reactive TPE to adhere to glass or glasslike surfaces without primer or adhesive
V. Avendaño, Ing Ger L Vroomen & M Gehringer, Allod Werkstoff GmbH & Co KG, Germany; Dr B Ulmer, Süddeutsches Kunststoff-Zentrum, Kunststoff-Forschung und - Entwicklung GmbH, Germany; Mr A Schweiger, Schweiger GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

SESSION 3 NANOMATERIALS

Paper 9 The many facets of POSS^® Dr Joe Lichtenhan, Dr Chris DeArmitt, Dr Paul Wheeler, Dr Bruce Fu & Dr Sukhendu Hait, Hybrid Plastics Inc, USA

Paper 10 Carbon nanotubes: review of their actual applications and trends for the future
Michael Claes & Frédéric Luizi, Nanocyl SA, Belgium

SESSION 4 ADDITIVE DISPERSION TECHNOLOGY

Paper 11 A new filler dispersion technology for the plastics industry

Valérie Smits, Pierre Chevalier & Damien Deheunynck, SISC, Dow Corning Europe SA, Belgium; Scott Miller, SISC, Dow Corning USA, USA

 SESSION 5 FLAME RETARDANTS

Paper 12 Flame retardants and the environment: from risk assessments to REACH, from black lists to green procurement
Dr Adrian Beard, Clariant Produkte (D) GmbH, Germany

Paper 13 Sulphonate type flame retardant technology in the flame retardant PC market segment
James Innes & Anne Innes, Flame Retardants Associates Inc, USA

Paper 14 Recent progress in the smoke suppression of poly(vinyl chloride) by copper-containing additives
Prof William Starnes Jr, R D Pike, A G Zestos, C L Grinnell, S V Orski, T W Fuller & L J Vinh, The College of William and Mary, USA; J K Walker & W-K Ho, Sherwin-Williams Company, USA

SESSION 6 NUCLEATING AGENTS

Paper 15 Optical and mechanical consequences of nucleation and sterilisation in PP cast films
Dr Markus Gahleitner, Johannes Wolfschwenger & Christelle Grein, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Austria; Rebecca Blell, Université Louis Pasteur, France; Thomas Koch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

SESSION 7 POLYMER STABILISATION

Paper 16 UV stabilization for automotive thermoplastic materials-a comparison between classical and new age methods
Hemant Minocha, Rajiv Plastic Industries, India

Paper 17 Phenol free stabilization of polyolefins
Dr Hayder Zahalka, Chemtura Global Technology, USA +++ Paper unavailable at time of print +++

Paper 18 Advances in light stabilization with a novel UV absorber-application in polycarbonate and other polymers
Yoshinori Negishi, Naoshi Kawamoto, Toshinori Yukino & Hiroshi Yamanoi, ADEKA Corporation, Japan

Paper 19 Developments in additives analysis-an update
John Sidwell, Smithers Rapra Technology Limited, UK

SESSION 8 ANTISTATIC ADDITIVES

Paper 20 New directions in permanent antistatic engineering thermoplastics
Constant Peek & Tatsuya Uchiyama, Sabic Innovative Plastics, The Netherlands

Paper 21 A new class of antistatic additives based on ionic liquids
Dr Markus Wagner & Dr Marc Uerdingen, Solvent Innovation GmbH, Germany