International Rubber Symposium

Worldwide rubber industry specialists have conferred in Zlín on the eleventh edition of the IRS 2007 symposium.

About 100 inland and foreign specialists have come in Zlín on September 11 – 12, 2007 to discuss the latest trends and know-how in the rubber industry. The representatives of the  Czech Rubber Industry Society (ČGS) there were present  too. The General Manager and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the MITAS a.s. company,  Jaroslav Čechura, has acquainted the present rubber specialists with the trends in the development of agricultural tyres, the director of the   SBU Rubber Machinery BUZULUK a.s., Pavel Charvát, has demonstrated their manufacturing line with the 5V calendar and with the feeding system of  orifices with extruders,  and the head of the technical development department of the RUBENA a.s. company,  Daniel Blažek, has demonstrated their Six Sigma method and its application in the rubber processing manufacture. Ing. Jana Voldánová (MITAS) has  devoted her contribution to the influence of polyethyleneglycole type on the properties of   loaded vulcanized rubbers,  and  Ing. Jiří Brejcha (MITAS) has informed on the possibilities of substitution of the DAE oils  by other types of ecologically preferable oils.

The International Rubber Symposium IRS 2007 has highly been  appreciated owing to its direct interconnection of theory with practice, owing to practical application of the majority of items of know-how from the topical subjects discussed.


Jaroslav Čechura, MITAS a.s. 


Pavel Charvát, BUZULUK a.s.


Daniel Blažek, RUBENA a.s.


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