Applications

On 3-5th September 2019 the International Rubber Conference (IRC) will take place in London. Zeon is proud to attend the IRC 2019 as a Gold Sponsor. We are very happy to support this event that is so substantial for the rubber and elastomer industry. ICR is a must attend event for exchange about technical advances in the global rubber market.
Four speakers will present Zeon at the conference. All interested experts are kindly invited to listen to the well prepared and informative lectures. Our speakers will be: Peter Abraham (Zeon Europe GmbH, United Kingdom) who will report about the ‘New Generation HT-ACM Technology for Highly Demanding Automotive Hose Applications’, Andrew Mittermiller (Zeon Chemicals, USA) who will present the ‘Hydrin (ECO) for Vibration and Acoustic Damping’, Dana Stripe (Zeon Chemicals, USA) who will inform the audience about the ‘Utilizing Peroxide Blends in HNBR’ and Eijun Ueda (Zeon Corporation, Japan) who will speak about the ‘Dynamic moduli mapping for filled SBR vulcanizate by nanorheological AFM’.

We will be located at stand number 33 and welcome the future visitors of the IRC 2019!

Zeon participated at the Tire Technology Expo in Hannover which became a must-attend event for those working in the tire industry. It’s the world’s largest gathering for tire design, development and manufacturing experts. The event in 2019 has been welcoming more exhibitors, delegates, speakers and attendees...

ZEON has announced that global selling prices for Zetpol® will be raised as listed below.

1. Product type:

Hydrogenated nitrile rubber (HNBR) (Product name: Zetpol®)

EUR 1.50/kg (EUR one Euro and fifty cents per kg)

2. Effective date:

Price increase will come into effect from February 1st, 2019 product delivery.

On the 16^th-17^th of January 2019, the 11^th annual European conference and exhibition “Pre-Filled Syringes & Injectable Drug Devices” will take place in London. The conference will offer deep insight into key areas within the field…

Zeon Europe in collaboration with its Turkish distribution and agency partner Arisan Kimya participated as an exhibitor at Kauçuk 2018, a biannual technical fair of Turkish rubber industry in Istanbul from October 24^th-27^th 2018. The booth of Arisan Kimya is one of the 177 exhibitors in this event…

Nuremberg, 2^nd – 5^th July 2018. This year more than 300 exhibitors and 3.000 professionals have attended the DKT 2018 in Nuremberg. The latest developments in raw materials and compounds, processing, testing, simulation, applications, sustainability, new technologies ...

The newly founded joint venture of Zeon and Sumitomo Chemicals (ZS Elastomers, Japan) for S-SBR and Li-BR presents its consolidated portfolio and novel synergetic functionalisation technologies. Nipol and Sumitomo S-SBR have been widely known for enhancing the performance of eco tires. Zeon’s hydrocarbon resin, Quintone, shows rubber compatibility to enhance the final performance like wet grip. Visit us at booth 2220.

Since 1949, the SOS Children's Village has been working with children, families, communities and states to prevent family breakdowns and ensure children's rights. This year the Christmas donations collected by the ZEON Europe team are addressed to the SOS Children's Villages Organization...

Last June the 7th, Edifis, the publisher of L'Industria della Gomma, organized a cocktail at the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milano to celebrate its 60th anniversary with its readers and advertisers. Place of the event was the world famous Hotel Principe di Savoia, a five-star hotel in Milan, which is one of the city's landmarks. During the evening, the magazine delivered eleven plates to specific enterprises ...

NIPOL® Nitrile Elastomers are recommended when oil or solvent resistance is needed for proper functioning of rubber parts. Nipol nitrile elastomers are available in a broad range of acrylonitrile content to ensure optimal performance in a variety of conditions. As acrylonitrile content is increased, fuel, oil, and solvent resistance improves. As acrylonitrile (ACN) content decreases, low-temperature flexibility and resiliency are improved...

Zeon Corporation (Zeon) has discovered through independent research that counterfeits of Zeon’s ZEONEX®and ZEONOR®are being sold in the People’s Republic of China... 

The "Arche Noah" in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf (Germany) teaches children and young people how to live close to nature with animals and plants. It was founded around three decades ago by Hildegard Miedel who is still at the head of the organization...

November 22nd – 24th, the KHK Technical Rubber Fall Colloquium took place in Hannover. The conference was organized by the well-known German Institute of Rubber Technology (DIK) to highlight the latest and most important scientific concepts and advanced processing techniques in rubber and polymer science and technology. Experts from all over the world gave keynote presentations...

Paul Ruscoe (Zeon) writes in the current issue of the European Rubber Journal about the ever-growing demands on polymer materials and shows a collaborative and innovative approach to address the specific challenges of suppliers to the oil and gas industry. ...

Products such as pre-filled syringes constitute one of the fastest growing healthcare markets and therefore are, quite naturally, exposed to strong competitive pressure. This year again, the Pre-filled Syringes Summit in Berlin will be the ideal platform for an exchange between research directors from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector and the manufacturing industry...

ZEON introduces with the new High-Performance HNBR (Zetpol®) compounding technology a hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber with outstanding next-generation properties. ZEON's newly designed HNBR compounds offer new opportunities for sealing applications by providing improvements in compression set, long-term aging, and processability...

Two powerful earthquakes, hitting Kumamoto in the south-west of Japan took place on April 14th. and 16th., 2016. Zeon was fortunately not affected by these, so that the full operation of all our production sites is secured.

May 11 + 12, 2016

For the second time the “ELASTOMER COURSE for Young Professionals“ at ZEON Europe in Düsseldorf will take place this year. The event has meanwhile become firmly established in the industry. It brings together young professionals of various industries with short work experience with experts of ZEON EUROPE...

During November 3 and 4, 2015 Zeon Europe participated at the PDA Conference and Exhibition "The Universe of Pre-Filled Syringes and Injection Devices" in Vienna/Austria. Zeon held an exhibition booth to promote our medical grades of Cyclo Olefin Polymers (COP), which are used for syringe , vial and cartridge applications in the pharma industry...

ZEON CORPORATION (President: Kimiaki Tanaka) and wholly owned Group company Zeon Asia Pte. Ltd. (Managing Director: Hiroshi Mihara) have jointly established Zeon India Private Limited in Gurgaon, in the Indian state of Haryana. The new company will commence operations on October 1, 2015...

From June 29 to July 2, 2015 Nuremberg was the venue for the world-famous trade fair within the DKT 2015 / IRC 2015. The idea of the exhibition, absolute concentration on the rubber processing industry in all its facets, has shown very good results...

On March 31st, 2015,

Zeon Chemicals Europe Limited (Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 5ZE, United Kingdom), a wholly owned subsidiary of ZEON CORPORATION (1-6-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan), is considering the discontinuation of its production operation and has entered into consultation with its employees regarding this...

ZEON Europe participates at the World of Energy Solutions in Stuttgart from 6th-8th October with a booth.

We present our latest developments of our materials for Lithium Ion Batteries. Water based binders are getting more and more important and give improved performance to LIB cells. ...