Another great edition of the Rubber Technology Course has come to an end!
From 22 till 26 June 2026, participants from industry and academia joined us for an intensive program covering key aspects of elastomer technology, while exchanging knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
A big thank you to all lecturers for sharing their expertise and to all participants for their enthusiasm, engagement, and valuable contributions throughout the week.
It was a pleasure to bring together professionals from across the rubber community for a week of learning, discussion, and knowledge exchange.
Thank you all for making the Rubber Technology Course 2026 a success!
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An intensive 5-day seminar for engineers in the rubber industry, suppliers and users.
Rubber technology is an intensive seminar given by experts from the University of Twente and from the industry. An extended tour of the laboratories of the Elastomer Technology and Engineering chair at the faculty of Engineering Technology is included. Case studies are used to discuss the application in the company environment. There are plenty of opportunities provided for discussion of theoretical and practical aspects with the lecturers. Also, the participants can obtain advice from the University of Twente after the seminar.
All speakers are experts with very long experience in their fields, and they gained their expertise either in industry or academia.
Types of polymers, thermoplastics, thermosets, rubbers/elastomers, rubbers versus plastics, modulus versus temperature and time, glass transition, rubber elasticity, reinforced and non-reinforced rubbers.
Oil-resistant and heat-resistant rubbers (NBR, CR, ACM, CO, ECO, FKM, Q, FVQ).
Introduction to the mechanics of vulcanization, sulfur, peroxides, types of crosslinks, crosslinking reactions, cross-link density, additives, zinc oxide, vulcametry.
Comparison of sulfur and peroxide vulcanization, difference in rubber properties, choice of system.
Basic principles, bonding to plastics and steel cord.
Appearance of raw materials, mixing rate and mixing quality, distributive and dispersive mixing, degree of dispersion, mastication, mixer types including mills and internal mixers, the mixing process in the internal mixer, energy balance, organization of a mixing shop.
Material properties of vulcanized rubbers, standards, measurement methods.
Rubber products, case studies, examples.
The production process as a flow problem, drag flow, pressure flow, extrusion for rubber processing, extrusion lines, extruder characteristics, energy balance, calenders, the calendering process, control of the thickness of the calender coating, calender coating lines.
car profiles, radiator hoses, roofing foil, etc.
Presses, transfer moulding presses, injection moulding, types and layout of injection moulding machines, injection.
Various vulcanization techniques, injection principles, dosage and injection, cold channel technology, de-gassing of cavities, mould-fouling.
The seminar will be held at the U Parkhotel, on the campus of the University of Twente.
Address: De Veldmaat 87522 NM Enschedeinfo@uparkhotel.nl+31 53 433 13 66
At the moment no new course is scheduled, yet. As soon as a new dat is fixed, it will be announced on this website.
More information will be available at a later date.