AIM This study evaluated the mortality experience of workers from the styrene-butadiene industry. METHODS The authors added seven years of follow up to a previous investigation of mortality among 17 924 men employed in the North American synthetic rubber industry. Analyses used the standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare styrene-butadiene rubber workers' cause specific mortality (1943...

Since the rubber units are mostly standardized in the industry, the real engineering and, design challenge is with the steel panels, chains and the corresponding anchorage. The rubber unit is a crucial component of the system, but is only as good as the overall design of the system. SFT has inspected numerous systems of even reputable fender manufacturer, that showed signs of premature failures...

OBJECTIVES Workers in the rubber industry are exposed to a complex mixture of hazardous substances and have increased risk of developing several diseases. However, there is no up to date survey examining the exposure in the Swedish rubber industry. One of the toxic compounds in the industry is carbon disulfide (CS(2)), which is biotransformed to 2-thiothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA). TTCA...

This report studies 100 cases of occupational bladder cancer which were reported between 1949 and 1970 by large companies producing dye. It is estimated that in fact a great many more than 100 cases may have developed during the 56 years from 1914 to 1970, as this period corresponds with the beginning of dye production to the termination of benzidine and beta-naphthylamine manufacture in Japan....

In the case of -many manufactured products abnormalities can easily be recognized by their luminescence. Because of this the observation ofluminescence has provided valuable as a check in many industries such as the textile industry, thepaper industry, the paint industry, the rubber industry, food industries and laundries: The ultra violet radiation' of mercury lamps is used for exciting lumine...

Hot-melt extrusion is one of the most widely applied processing technologies in the plastic, rubber and food industry. Today this technology has found its place in the array of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Melt extrusion process are currently applied in the pharmaceutical field for the manufacture of a variety of dosage forms and formulations such as granules, pellets, tablets, supp...