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Tire Technology Expo is celebrating its twelfth year
in Europe, and 2012 will be yet another
blockbuster event. More exhibitors, more space
and more to see than ever before. Plus our bestever
conference programme and speaker line-up –
guaranteed to make your visit highly valuable.
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Day 1 TuesDay 14 February
SESSION 1: A glObAl INSIght INtO tIrE ANd rAw
mAtErIAlS Supply ANd dEmANd
Moderator: Michael Staude, TÜV SÜD Automotive GmbH,
Germany
OPENING ADDRESS
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Paul Hembery, motorsport director, Pirelli Tyre SpA, Italy
Dr Claus Oberbeck, team manager, product development,
Hankook Tire Co Ltd, Germany
Ron Commander, Lanxess, Germany
ISOPRENE PRODuCt fROm NON-fOOD bIOmASS
Professor Eric Singsaas, research director, Wisconsin
Institute for Sustainable Technology, USA
Robert Simmons, head of rubber and tire research, LMC, UK
HOw tO mAkE ‘blACk AND ROuND’ SExy!
Rob Dolton, director, Dolton & Dex Limited, UK
INDIAN tIRE mARkEt SCENARIO AND ItS RESPONSE tO tHE
GlObAl SItuAtION
Dr Rabindra Mukhopadhyay, chairman, Indian Rubber
Institute, India
SESSION 2: ENErgy rEductION thrOugh dESIgN Of
tIrES, vEhIclES ANd rOAdS
Moderator: Dr Rudi Hein, executive adviser standards and
regulations, Bridgestone, Belgium
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Jean-Pierre Jeusette, general director, Goodyear Innovation
Center, Luxembourg
Dr Guenter Leister, senior manager tires and wheels
Mercedes-Benz cars development, Daimler AG, Germany
Casto Lopez Benitez, DG mobility and transport, EU
Commission, Belgium
Prof Ulf Sandberg, senior research leader, VTI, Sweden
Dr Gerald Potts, president, TMSi, USA
OEm tIRE REquIREmENtS fOR lOw-CARbON vEHIClES
Maelle Dodu, advanced chassis research engineer, Jaguar
Landrover, UK
GRIP, wAtER fIlm DEPtH AND ACCIDENtOlOGy ON wEt
ROADS
Christian Mignot, performance analysis, MFP Michelin,
France
ECOtECHNOlOGy fOR vEHIClES: AN OvERvIEw Of
tRANSPORt CANADA’S tIRE tEStING ACtIvIty
Brad Richard, vehicle programs engineer, Transport Canada,
Canada
DRIvING fORCES: PERSPECtIvES ON NEw ROllING
RESIStANCE REGulAtIONS
Dr James Popio, general manager, Smithers Rapra, USA
SESSION 3: thE NEw wOrld Of tIrE mANufActurINg
Moderator: Mike Norman, sales director, VMI Holland BV,
Netherlands
Moderator: Florian W. Fischer, director business
development, VMI Holland BV, Netherlands
HIDDEN COStS IN tIRE mANufACtuRING
Florian W. Fischer, director business development, VMI
Holland BV, Netherlands
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TIRE TECHnOLOGy ExpO 2012 pROGRammE
DRIvING PlANt PERfORmANCE wItH mANufACtuRING It
(mES/mOm)
Mohammed Zuhair, IS - business consultant EMEA,
Rockwell Automation, UK
RubbER mIxING: SCIENCE OR blACk ARt?
Richard Jorkasky, lab manager, Kobelco Stewart Bolling Inc,
USA
tHE NExt GENERAtION Of mODulAR tIRE mEASuREmENt
SyStEmS
Dr Shaun Immel, chief technology officer, Micro-Poise
Measurement Systems, USA
tIRE mARkING: full tRACEAbIlIty AND quAlIty CONtROl
Florian Schreiber, key account manager, 4JET Technologies
GmbH, Germany
StAtE Of tHE ARt fOR tIRE x-RAy tECHNOlOGIES
André Kollmeier, engineering manager, Collmann GmbH,
Germany
AutOmAtIC DEfECt RECOGNItION: 2012 ENHANCEmENtS
fOR tIRE x-RAy INSPECtION
Moath Al-Shyoukh, technical manager, Jo-Vision, Germany
GEt A GRIP
Frank Kaufmann, projektingenieur pressen- und
umformtechnik,
Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany
INfluENCES Of GREEN tIRE ASSEmbly ON tIRE quAlIty
Jan Grashuis, manager R&D Tire Building, VMI, Netherlands
GREEN EffICIENCy: mOulD ClEANING by lASER
Jorg Jetter, CEO, 4JET, Germany
HIGH-PERfORmANCE CuRING blADDERS
Dr Dietmar Hoff, head of Tire Task Force EMEA, Rhein
Chemie Rheinau GmbH, Germany
tHE APPlICAtION Of EffECtIvE RADIuS mEASuREmENt IN
tIRE PRODuCtION
Dr Shaun Immel, chief technology officer, Micro-Poise
Measurement Systems, USA
ImPlEmENtING AN ENERGy mANAGEmENt SyStEm IN tHE
tIRE INDuStRy
Ahmad Ghasemshirazi, IMS expert, Barez Industrial Group,
Iran
lAtESt DEvElOPmENt IN HyDRAulIC NIP ADjuStmENt
fOR HIGHESt-quAlIty tIRE CAlENDER: PRESSuRE AND
POSItION CONtROl
Renato Lualdi, research & development manager, Comerio
Ercole SpA, Italy
A NEw StRIP-wINDING mACHINE ImPROvES ACCuRACy,
flExIbIlIty Of uSE, INStAllAtION tImE AND OPERAtOR
ACCESS
Mário Kaprálik, research and development manager,
Konstrukta, Slovakia
SESSION 4: tIrE fIllEr tEchNOlOgy:
blAck, whItE ANd grEy
Moderator: Prof Franco Cataldo, professor of Chemistry and
scientific director, University of Rome, Italy
NExt-GENERAtION tIRE mAtERIAlS tECHNOlOGy
Dr Keizo Akutagawa, fellow, Bridgestone, Japan
uSAxS StuDy Of SIlICA flOCCulAtION IN fIllED RubbER
Dr Satoshi Mihara, senior engineer, Yokohama Rubber Co
Ltd, Japan
fuNCtIONAlISED CARbON blACk wItH fuNCtIONAlISED
SSbR mAtCHING GREEN tIRE PROPERtIES
David Hardy, technical marketing manager, Lanxess
Deutschland GmbH, Germany
RHODIA NEwESt HIGHly DISPERSIblE SIlICA:
multIPuRPOSE bENEfItS fOR GREENER tIRES
Soline de Cayeux, business development manager, Rhodia,
France
SIlICA mORPHOlOGy AND INtERfACIAl CHEmIStRy
PORtfOlIO ADDRESSES tIRE INDuStRy CHAllENGES
Timothy Okel, senior research associate, PPG Industries,
USA
StuDIES ON tHE CORRElAtION bEtwEEN tHE PAH
CONCENtRAtIONS IN tIRES AND ISO21461 tESt RESultS
ACCORDING tO COmmISSION REGulAtION (EC) 552/2009
Dr Albrecht Seidel, Biochemical Institute for Environmental
Carcinogens, Germany and Prof Dr. Gernot, Grimmer-
Foundation, Germany
PlAStICISERS: HOw tHEy INfluENCE tHE
mANufACtuRING PROCESS
Juergen Trimbach, head of R&D/product manager process
oils, Hansen & Rosenthal, Germany
REPlACEmENt Of DbP
Dr Cristina Bergmann, R&D, Hansen & Rosenthal, Germany
tIRE DERIvED PyROlytIC CARbON blACk fROm
A COmmERCIAl PlANt: PROCESS AND mAtERIAl
CHARACtERISAtION
Dr Loeffler Martin, Probst Nicolas Carbon Clean Tech,
Germany
RubbER COmPOuNDS REINfORCEmENt wItH CARbON
NANOtubES
Prof Franco Cataldo, Tor Vergata University, Rome
SESSION 5: trENdS ANd dEvElOpmENtS IN StEEl,
NON-StEEl cOrd ANd hybrId cOrdS
Moderator: Dr Kurt Uihlein, director, Cordenka, Germany
Moderator: Boudewijn de Loose, global marketing director,
Bekaert, Belgium
fIbERNAmIC IN tIRES
Dr Günter Wahl, head of body compound and reinforcement
development tires, Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH,
Germany
tbR tIRES CONtAINING ADvANCED tIRE REINfORCEmENt
mAtERIAlS: mONOlyx
Müge Yenmez, project leader, Kordsa Global, Turkey
bRIDGING tHE GAP bEtwEEN tHE tIRE AND tExtIlE
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TIRE TECHnOLOGy ExpO 2012 pROGRammE
INDuStRIES
Purushothama Kini, new business development manager,
Milliken & Company, Singapore
A tIRE-mARkEt mODEl tO ANAlySE AND StRuCtuRE
mARkEt GROwtH IN EmERGING COuNtRIES
Borris Standt, sales and marketing manager tire &
technical yarns, Polyamide High Performance GmbH,
Germany
ECONOmICAl PRODuCtION Of HIGH-quAlIty tIRE CORD
Wolfgang Schoeffl, vice president sales, Oerlikon Saurer,
Allma Product Line, Germany
ADvANCES IN StEEl CORD: ImPROvED ADHESION
SyStEm
Dr Guy Buytaert, R&D manager, Bekaert, Belgium
SulfRON tO ImPROvE ROllING RESIStANCE AND
DuRAbIlIty Of tIRES
Dr Mukund Tiwari, technical account manager, Teijin
Aramid, Netherlands
Day 2 WeDnesDay 15 February
SESSION 6: dEvulcANISAtION tEchNOlOgy ANd
thE uSE Of rEcyclEd rubbEr mAtErIAlS IN tIrES
Moderator: Robert Kind, technical director, Polymer
Recyclers, UK
ultRASONIC DEvulCANISAtION Of uSED tIRES AND
wAStE RubbERS
Dr Avraam I. Isayev, distinguished professor, The
University of Akron, USA
OPtImISAtION Of tREAD COmPOuNDS: INCORPORAtING
SuStAINAblE, mICRONISED RubbER POwDERS
Frank Papp, technical manager, Lehigh Technologies, USA
wAStE RubbER PyROlySIS DElIvERING HIGH vOlumE,
SuPERIOR CARbON blACk
Anthony Carter, chairman, PYReco, UK
HEAvy mEtAl REmOvAl fROm wAtER by mODIfIED tIRE
RubbER POwDER
Dr Mercedeh Malekzadeh, assistant professor, North
Tehran Branch Islamic Azad University, Iran
Dr Saeed Taghvaei-Ganjali, manager, Iran Rubber
Research Institute, Iran
tHE tECHNICAl AND COmmERCIAl CHAllENGES
Of uSING RECyClED RubbER AS A COmPOuNDING
INGREDIENt
Bob Kind, technical director, Polymer Recyclers Ltd, UK
SESSION 7: tIrE rEtrEAdINg: A NEw bEgINNINg
Moderator: David Wilson, Retreading Business Magazine,
UK
DEvElOPmENtS IN NON-DEStRuCtIvE tyRE INSPECtION
Rainer Huber, sales manager, Steinbichler Optotechnik,
Germany
fuEl-SAvING tRuCk tIRES: fACt OR fICtION
Richard O’Connell, director, Bandvulc, UK
SESSION 8: rAw mAtErIAlS fOr grEENEr tIrES
Moderator: Dr Lothar Steger, consultant, Lanxess,
Germany
CONfIRmED SPEAkER
Dr Massimo Ciolone, material development manager,
Marangoni Tyre, Italy
A COmPlEtE REtHINk ON tHE DESIGN Of SbR/bR
RubbER blENDS fOR uSE IN PASSENGER CAR tIRE
tREAD
Dr Ali Ansarifar, lecturer, Loughborough University, UK
mODIfIED NDbR fOR EASy RubbER PROCESSING
Dr Heike Kloppenburg, product and process technology,
Lanxess Deutschland GmbH, Germany
mEEtING tHE futuRE DEmANDS wItH flExIblE, HIGH-
PERfORmING DRIvE SOlutIONS
Uno Sundelin, industrial sector manager, Bosch Rexroth,
Sweden
DymAlINk709 AS AN ImPROvED ACtIvAtOR fOR zINC
lOADING REDuCtION
Dr Jean-Marc Monsallier, global rubber technology manager,
Cray Valley, France
RECENt tRENDS IN SIlICA uSAGE IN RADIAl tRuCk
tIRES
Bruce Lambillotte, general manager, Akron Laboratories,
Smithers Rapra Inc, USA
Jim Fogarty, product manager tire services, Smithers Rapra
Inc, USA
ADDItIvE tECHNOlOGIES fOR tIRE fORmulAtIONS
Dr Antoinette van Bennekom, senior chemist, Eastman
Chemical BV, Netherlands
OIlS AS A tOOlkIt fOR bEttER tIRE RAtINGS
Dr Markus Hoffmann, technical coordinator, Nynas AB,
Sweden
PROCESS ADDItIvES: A CONtRIbutION tOwARDS GREEN
tIRE PERfORmANCE AND PROCESSAbIlIty
Colin Clarke, key account manager, Schill + Seilacher,
Germany
DESIGN Of NANOPRENE-CONtAINING wINtER tIRE
tREAD COmPOuNDS
Dr Lothar Steger, consultant, Lanxess-TRP, Germany
SESSION 9: thE chANgINg ScIENcE Of rubbEr
mAtErIAl chEmIcAl ANAlySIS
Moderator: Dr Ulrich Giese, CEO, German Institute of Rubber
Technology, Germany
PRESENtAtIONS AvAIlAblE SOON
SESSION 10: bIOtEchNOlOgy ANd thE
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dEvElOpmENt Of rAw mAtErIAlS fOr tIrES
Moderator: Prof Katrina Cornish, endowed chair and
Ohio research scholar, bioemergent materials, Ohio State
University, USA
ECO-fRIENDly mAtERIAlS IN tIRE COmPOuNDS: lONGtERm
SuStAINAblE GROwtH
Dr Saikat Das Gupta, chief scientist, Hasetri, India
mORPHOlOGy DEvElOPmENt IN SbR NANO COmPOSItES
Dr Mohammad Karrabi, academic staff, IPPI, Iran
NEw lANxESS SSbR GRADES fOR ImPROvED tIRE tREAD
PROPERtIES
Fernanda Albino, laboratory manager, Lanxess, Germany
ImPROvED ROllING RESIStANCE wItH NOvEl SI
mAtERIAlS
Dr Thomas Chaussee, senior rubber specialist, Dow
Corning SA, Belgium
SESSION 11: INtEllIgENt tIrES:
thE cOmINg ESSENtIAl vEhIclE cOmpONENt
Moderator: Dr Federico Mancosu, Pirelli Ret’d, Italy
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Dr Thomas Roscher, development tire pressure monitoring
systems, Audi, Germany
Dr Ulrich Thielmann, sales director, Procontour, Germany
Geoff Haswell, managing director, Piezotag, UK
DyNAmIC tIRE lOAD EStImAtION AlGORItHm: tIRE-INtHE-lOOP
(tIl) SENSOR fuSION APPROACH
Prof Saied Taheri, associate professor, Virginia Tech, USA
ImPROvING DRIvER ASSIStANCE SyStEmS by
kNOwlEDGE Of tIRE PROPERtIES
Cornelia Lex, scientific assistant, Graz University of
Technology, Austria
tHE NEw CAmbER PERfORmANCE EvAluAtION mEtHOD
Dr Shunichi Yamazaki, president, Intelligent Vehicle
Research Institute, Japan
SESSION 12: SuStAININg thE rOAd StructurE ANd
prOtEctINg thE tIrE
Moderator: Dr Helen Viner, group manager, TRL, UK
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Klaus Peter Glasner, BAST, Germany
Prof Morris de Beer, senior researcher, CSIR, South Africa
Prof Nordengen CSIR, South Africa
SESSION 13: tIrE INSpEctION ANd EvAluAtION:
grEAtEr SpEEd ANd grEAtEr AccurAcy
Moderator: Dr Gerald Potts, president, TMSi, USA
CONfIRmED SPEAkER
Hugues Baurier, deputy manager, 01dB-Metravib, France
INvEStIGAtIONS ON tHE fAtIGuE lIfE At RubbER
INtERfACES IN tIRES
Thomas Baumard, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
DESIGN-RElEvANt fAtIGuE tEStING Of NEw tIRE
REINfORCEmENt CONCEPtS
Philippe van Bogaert, CEO, Bogimac Engineering NV SA,
Belgium
lIGHt SCAttERING StuDIES Of fIllER PARtIClE DEwEttING
uNDER StRAIN
Lewis B. Tunnicliffe, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
NEw ROllING RESIStANCE mEASuREmENt mACHINE
mEEtING NEw REGulAtION ECE117/ ISO28580
Dr Stephan Koehne, managing director, TestingService
GmbH, Germany
ANAlySING tIRE PERfORmANCE vIA wHEEl AND CONtACt
PAtCH fORCE mEASuREmENtS
Dr Rahul Ahlawat, R&D engineer, A&D Technology, USA
DEvElOPmENt Of A SmAll-SCAlE tIRE fOR vEHIClE
DyNAmICS RESEARCH
Sean Maloney, Master’s of Applied Sciences student,
University of Windsor, Canada
ROllING RESIStANCE mEASuREmENt ON tHE ROAD: A
DREAm?
Dr Jürgen Bredenbeck, managing director, A&D Europe
GmbH, Germany
SESSION 14: tIrE rEgulAtIONS Of thE futurE:
A glObAl vIEw
Moderator: Dr Roger Williams, associate editor, Tire
Technology International, UK
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Fazilet Cinaralp, secretary general, ETRMA, Belgium
tIRE PRESSuRE SyStEmS fOR mEDIum- AND HEAvy-
Duty COmmERCIAl vEHIClES
Greg Felder, manager - industry standard and government
regulation, Michelin North America
Sean Kane, president, Safety Research and Strategies,
USA
Prof Ulf Sandberg, senior research leader, VTI, Sweden
Volker Berger, Schill + Seilacher, Germany
tIRE ENERGy lAbEllING: CONSumER AwARENESS AND
OPINIONS
David William Evans, senior researcher, Which? Ltd, UK
SHAPING tHE futuRE Of tHE tIRE INDuStRy tHROuGH
SuStAINAblE DEvElOPmENt
Dr Rabindra Mukhopadhyay, director and CE, Hasetri, India
SESSION 15: tIrE ANd rOAd wEAr pArtIclES:
A cOmprEhENSIvE EvAluAtION Of ENvIrONmENtAl
hEAlth ISSuES
Moderator: Julie Panko, principal health scientist,
ChemRisk, USA
mEtHOD fOR COllECtING tIRE wEAR PARtIClES uNDER
REAlIStIC DRIvING CONDItIONS: ImPlICAtIONS fOR
RESEARCH REGARDING ENvIRONmENtAl ImPACtS
Marek Zoeller, Federal Highway Research Institute (BAST),
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Germany
ANAlySIS Of SuRfACE ROuGHNESS fOR tIRE tEStING
tRACkS: CHARACtERISAtION Of tIRE AND ROAD wEAR
PARtIClES
U. Tartaglino, Pirelli, Italy
ANAlySIS Of AIRbORNE tIRE AND ROAD wEAR PARtIClES
Eckhard Kreipe, corporate environmental protection,
Continental AG, Germany
vAlIDAtION Of A CHEmICAl mARkER AND DEvElOPmENt
Of AN ANAlytICAl mEtHOD tO DEtECt AND quANtIfy
tRwP IN ENvIRONmENtAl SAmPlES
Kenneth M. Unice, supervising health scientist, ChemRisk,
USA
EvAluAtION Of tHE POtENtIAl AquAtIC tOxICIty Of tRwP
tO AlGAE, DAPHNIDS AND fISH
Julie Panko, principal health scientist, ChemRisk, USA
POtENtIAl fOR tOxICIty ON tHE CARDIOPulmONARy
SyStEm fROm INHAlAtION Of AIRbORNE tRwP
Dr Marisa L. Kreider, supervising health scientist, ChemRisk,
USA
GlObAl ASSESSmENt Of tRwP IN tHE ENvIRONmENt
Mike Crawford, regional HSE manager, EMEA Goodyear
Dunlop Tires Europe, Belgium
Day 3 ThursDay 16 February
SESSION 16: tIrE tEchNOlOgy Off thE rOAd
Moderator: James Brighton, senior lecturer, Cranfield
University, UK
ON tHE ROAD fOR NEw OPPORtuNItIES Off-ROAD
Sander Nieuwenhuijzen, technical account manager Tires,
Teijin Aramid BV, Netherlands
SESSION 17: NAturAl rubbEr: A NEw ScIENcE ANd
NEw prOpErtIES
Moderator: Dr Stuart Cook, director of research, TARRC, UK
SESSION 18: NEw ApprOAchES ANd NEw
tEchNIquES fOr tIrE mAthEmAtIcAl mOdEllINg
Moderator: Prof Mike Blundell, professor of vehicle
dynamics and impact, Coventry University, UK
PARAmEtERISAtION Of fINItE ElEmENt tIRE mODElS
Dr Christian Oertel, professor, FH Brandenburg, Germany
mODEllING Of vIbRAtION AND ImPACtING bEHAvIOuR Of
tIRE by tHE AbSOlutE fINItE ElEmENt mEtHOD
Dr Yintao Wei, professor, Tsinghua University, China
DESIGNING SOftwARE by mEANS Of kNOwlEDGE
mANAGEmENt IN tIRE COmPANIES
Reza Farivar, process engineer, Kavir Tire, Iran
AN APPROACH tO EStImAtION Of CuRE tHROuGH fE
SImulAtION
Amitabha Saha, simulation engineer, Hasetri, India
ADvANCES IN SImulAtION Of CuRING PROCESS Of tIRES
AND RubbERS
Dr Mir Hamid Reza Ghoreishy, academic, Iran Polymer &
Petrochemical Institute, Iran
tIRE fORCE AND mOmENt mODEllING uSING fEA
RESultS
Henning Olsson, R&D engineer, OptimumG, USA
CONfIRmED SPEAkERS
Dr Oluremi Olatunbosun, head, vehicle dynamics lab,
University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Gary Wood, research assistant, Coventry University, UK
Rainer Albermann, sales executive, Fuzzy Logic, Germany
Dr George Mavros, lecturer in vehicle system dynamics,
Loughborough University, UK
SESSION 19: dAmAgE, wEAr ANd fAtIguE prOpErtIES
Of AdvANcEd rubbEr mAtErIAlS
Moderator: Dr Steve Jerrams, director of the Centre for
Elastomer Research (CER), Dublin Institute of Technology,
Ireland
DEtERmINAtION Of tHE EffECt Of tEmPERAtuRE ON tHE
StRAIN RAtE At A CRACk tIP
K. Sakulkaew, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
tHE EffECtS Of CyClIC lOADING ON DyNAmIC
PROPERtIES Of RubbER ExHIbItING mAGNEtIC fIElD
DEPENDENCy
L. Chen, DIT, Ireland
PROCESSING fEAtuRES Of tRANSfERmIx SINGlE-
SCREw ExtRuDERS IN CONjuNCtION wItH A GEAR PumP
S. Wachter, VMI Holland BV, Netherlands
fAtIGuE AND DyNAmIC CRACk PROPAGAtION PROPERtIES
Of ElAStOmERS
F. Abraham, University of Portsmouth, UK
PROvIDING RElIAblE DESIGN DAtA fOR mAGNEtIC
fIElDS IN mAGNEtORHEOlOGICAl ElAStOmER DAmPING
APPlICAtIONS
D. Gorman, DIT, Ireland
multI-SCAlE mODEllING Of DAmAGE AND fINItE
ElEmENt ANAlySIS Of RubbER COmPONENtS
R. Dargazany, Continuum Mechanics, Germany
tHE PREvAlENCE Of lARGE flAwS IN RubbER
COmPONENtS
John McNamara, Timoney Technology, Ireland
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4-day 37Th TirE mEchanics shorT coursE
will be held concurrently with tire technology Expo 2012 in cologne,
germany, 13/14/15/16 february 2012
This four-day course will provide engineers and scientists with an in-depth, intense study of the latest developments
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2-day ruBBEr maTErials shorT coursE
will be held concurrently with tire technology Expo 2012 in cologne,
germany, 13 and 14 february 2012
The performance requirements for engineered rubber products such as tires have continuously increased over the
last few decades and are set to continue to increase. The conflicting demands of weight reduction and reduced
rolling resistance, coupled with increases in abrasion resistance and wet and dry friction performance, make the
tire designer’s life difficult. All rubber components have to be designed and manufactured using robust engineering
principles to ensure that they comply with the expected performance and lifetime requirements. This course is
designed specifically to give a detailed overview of all the core concepts involved in the design of rubber products.
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1-day TirE maThEmaTical modElling coursE
will be held concurrently with tire technology Expo 2012 in cologne, germany,
13 february 2012 – the day before the expo and main conference
Presented by Mike Blundell, professor of Vehicle Dynamics and Impact, Coventry University. This course covers the
computer modelling of tires within a full vehicle system. It is aimed at engineers and researchers working in both
industry and academia. The subject matter will be of primary interest to vehicle dynamicists, for whom the tire is the
primary force and moment generation element on the vehicle. Tires are not especially complex but are deeply counterintuitive;
practitioners require an understanding of tire behaviour and the range and capability of existing models in
order to generate full system models to predict the dynamic performance of a vehicle.
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2-day Basic ruBBEr comPounding coursE
will be held concurrently with tire technology Expo 2012 in cologne, germany, 13 and 14 february
2012 – commencing one day before the expo and main conference
Presented by Bob Kind MIMMM, GPRI technical director of Polymer Recyclers Ltd, UK and John Bowen MIMMM, BSc
consultant formerly of Robinson Bros Chemicals Ltd, UK. Rubber technology embraces chemistry, physics and
engineering, and some of the concepts and terminology are very specific to rubber. This basic course is designed
for all those working in the associated tire industry who wish to know more about the compounding of rubber. It will
try and define the concepts in simple terms but at the same time relate them to actual manufacturing and product
circumstances.
�975 plus german vAt for the one-day course cAN bE bOOkEd ON ItS OwN
onE shorT coursE Plus oPEn Pass
To all TirE TEchnology confErEncE sEssions �1,555
(doEs noT includE akron TirE mEchanics shorT coursE)

COmpanIES ExHIBITInG aT
TIRE TECHnOLOGy ExpO 2012
Regular updates available online at: www.tiretechnology-expo.com
01dB-Metravib • 4JET Technologies GmbH • A & D Europe GmbH • AB Svenskt Konstsilke • Afache • Akron
Special Machinery • Akron Steel Fabricators • Alligator Ventilfabrik GmbH • Altracon SA • Ammeraal Beltech
• Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali SpA • Asiatech Consulting Ltd • ASM-Hasbach • A-Z Formen-und-Maschinenbau
GmbH • Bartell Machinery Ltd • Beckhoff Automation GmbH • Bogimac NV SA • Bosch Rexroth AG •
Brandenburger Isoliertechnik GmbH & Co • BST International GmbH • Bytewise Measurement Systems Inc •
Calemard SA • Carter International Ltd • Chem Trend Europe • China United Rubber (Group) Corporation •
Cimcorp Oy • Collmann GmbH & Co • Comerio Ercole SpA • Commercial Timesharing Inc • Conti Bladders •
Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH • CyXplus • Dahmen GmbH • Data2 Corporation and Gislotica • Datalogic
Automation Srl • Delcam GmbH • Dr Noll GmbH • Electronic Systems SpA • Elisto GmbH • Erhardt & Leimer
GmbH • Farrel Limited • Firestone Industrial Products • Fraunhofer IIS • Gabo Qualimeter • Gacz • Gislotica
Mechanical Solutions Lda • Glebus Alloys Europe Sro • Gudel AG • Harburg Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH
• Herbert Maschinenbau GmbH & Co • Hofmann Maschinen-und Anlagenbau GmbH • Ichimaru-Giken Co Ltd •
Ilmberger GmbH • Indspec Chemical BV • Intereuropean Srl • Intralox LLC Europe • Kara Gostar Eng. Co • Karl
Eugen Fischer GmbH • Konstrukta Industry AS • Kraussmaffei Berstorff GmbH • KSBI • Lang GmbH & Co KG
• LAP GmbH • Larsen & Toubro Limited • Leonhard Breitenbach GmbH • LKY Wartungs und Industrie Service
GmbH • LMI Technologies BV • Marangoni Meccanica SpA • Matteuzzi Srl • McCoy Machinery Corp • McNeil
+ NRM Inc • MESNAC / MER TC • Micro Epsilon • MicroPoise Measurement Systems • Mitsubishi International
GmbH • MTS Systems Corporation • Muench Chemie International GmbH • MWS Schneidwerkzeuge GmbH &
Co KG • Nakata Engineering • NDC Infrared Engineering GmbH • Nynas AB • Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co KG
• Open Mind Technologies AG • Ozmetal Makina Imalati ve Kalip Sanayi Tic Ltd Sti • Parker Hannifin GmbH •
Pelmar Engineering Germany GmbH • Pneuform Hulin AS • Polymers & Tyre Asia • Pomini Rubber and Plastics
Srl • Prodicon International Srl • PT. Pura Agung • Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH • Rhodia Operations SAS • RJS
Corporation • RMS Equipment LLC • Rockwell Automation BV • Rodolfo Comerio Srl • Roland Electronic GmbH
• Sage Automation Inc • Schill + Seilacher Struktol Aktiengesellschaft • Schubert & Salzer Control Systems GmbH
• SDS Systemtechnik GmbH • Seichter GmbH • Shandong Himile Mechanical Science and Technology Co Ltd •
SICK Vertriebs-GmbH • Siemens AG • Sigmavision Ltd • Simaform SA • Simulia - Dassault Systemes Europe BV •
Sino-Arp Tires Equipment Technology (Suzhou) Co Ltd • Smithers Rapra • SNE Deshors Moulage • Spoolex SAS •
Standards Testing Labs • The Steelastic Company LLC • Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH • Tauform Tyre Moulds Co
Ltd • Test Measurement Systems Inc • The Poling Group • Tien Sheng Iron Works Co Ltd • Tire Curing Bladders
LLC • Tridelta Magnetsysteme GmbH • Troester GmbH & Co KG • TS TestingService GmbH • TS-Plzen AS • TST
Europe BV • TUV SUD Automotive GmbH • UTH GmbH • Uzer Makina ve Kalip Sanayii AS • Vipo AS • VMI
Group • Walzen Irle GmbH • WD Racing Ltd • Werba-Chem GmbH • Wyko Tire Technology • Yxlon International
GmbH • ZF Friedrichshafen AG • Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH
awards and gala dinnEr
The Tire Technology International
Awards for Innovation and Excellence
to be presented at the Gala Dinner
The Tire Technology
International Awards for
Innovation and Excellence
to be presented at the
Gala Dinner
On the second evening of the exhibition (15 February 2012)
there will be an entertainment-packed evening where we
will present the Awards for Innovation and Excellence.
Delegates, exhibitors and their guests will have free access to this event.
2011 awards winners included:
Environmental Achievement of the Year – Yokohama Rubber
Company
Tire Technology of the Year – Goodyear UltraGrip Ice+
Tire Industry Supplier of the Year – Oerlikon Saurer
Tire Manufacturing Innovation of the Year – CureSense
Tire Manufacturer of the Year – Hankook
COnTaCT DETaILS
UKIP Media & Events, Abinger House, Church Street, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1DF, UK
Mark Fenner Tel: +44 1306 743744 Fax: +44 1306 877411 Email: mark.fenner@ukipme.com
Register online at: www.tiretechnology-expo.com