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DSM Picks Nova For Rubber Process

April 16, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 16

A DSM researcher works on specialty rubber development.
Credit: DSM

DSM will start producing ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) next year with Nova Chemicals' single-site catalyst technology. "This exciting new generation of catalysts allows us to tailor-make specialty EPDMs that offer characteristics that cannot be reached with Ziegler-Natta technology," says DSM Elastomers President Bob Hartmayer. The company says the new elastomers contain high levels of 2-vinyl-5-norbornene as a comonomer and respond well to peroxide curing.

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