At the recent German Rubber Conference DKT 2015/International Rubber Conference 2015, Switzerland-headquartered rubber/plastics materials company Trinseo was awarded the DKG Product Award 2015 for its multi-functionalised oil-extended solution styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR). It was presented by the German Rubber Society…
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