What’s New

With a little help from RDAbbott, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board  ammended rule 1168 to allow the use of solvent-based Chemlok within the District on October 6, 2017.

RDAbbott is full-service supplier that’s been serving the rubber industry with exceptional logistics and technical solutions since 1948. Check out this video to get a quick overview of our business.

RDAbbott teamed up with Cancarb and ARLANXEO to explore architectural sealing advancements using Thermax N-990 and Keltan EPDM with new rubber glazing compounding technology to improve cost efficiency, processability, and durability.

When it comes to the Oil & Gas industry, we work with top-tier suppliers like ARLANXEO, 3M, LORD, Cancarb, Dow Performance Silicones, Rhein Chemie, Hallstar, and TSE to provide you the highest quality materials.

Visit RDAbbott in booth 730 at the 2017 International Elastomer Conference October 10 – 12 in Cleveland, Ohio, to discover the latest developments in Liquid Additive Manufacturing (LAM) 3D printing by German RepRap GmbH with Dow Corning Silastic® LC 3335 Liquid Silicone Rubber, In-Molding Bonding technologies (IMB™) with LORD adhesives, and architectural sealing with Cancarb N-990 thermal carbon black and ARLANXEO Keltan® (EPDM).

Hallstar’s Paraplex^® Approach draws upon decades of performance data to quickly create custom-designed plasticizers that meet the strictest design requirements. To learn more, check out their new video.

Come visit our booth to find out about new rubber products and innovations; meet with technical experts; and get caught up with friends and colleagues.

Sports balls of all varieties whether it be soccer, or hockey, or tennis, owe their resilience and reliability to an unusual polymer, one whose derivatives and spinoffs are everywhere you look, from cars to shoes to rocket fuel. To learn more about rubber, check out this new video sponsored by the Rubber Division, ACS.

Next generation gas drilling techniques continue to evolve allowing the market access to previously unavailable large shale gas reserves.

To better serve the wire and cable market with EPDM raw materials, ARLANXEO is introducing a new product—Keltan^® 2470E—which has been specifically developed for electrical applications.