Extreme weather, including torrential monsoon downpours and a powerful typhoon, reduced rubber production levels in Asia and sent prices soaring to 13-year highs, according to Reuters. A series of ...

What will the rubber industry look like in the next 50 years? Integrated and automated, for sure, but will it even feature natural rubber? It is an audacious task to forecast the future of any ...

From automobile and aircraft tires, to belts and hoses, natural rubber production is essential to modern production. Unfortunately, the world’s primary rubber supply—the tropical rubber tree Hevea ...

Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

The company’s engineering biology platform aims to reduce dependence on tropical rubber imports while enabling faster, ...

When most people think of forest products, they think of wood — lumber and building products — or pulp-based materials such as paper and cardboard. While it is true that these make up the bulk of ...

ALL RIGHT. CLOSER TO CLEAN AIR. THAT IS WHAT SOME NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE ALONG SO-CALLED CANCER ALLEY ARE HOPING FOR. AFTER A PLANT ANNOUNCED THAT IT IS STOPPING PRODUCTION OF CHLOROPRENE RUBBER. YEAH, ...

The former Minister of Education has warned that growing pressure on Liberia's rubber supply chain could undermine jobs, industrial expansion, and the country's long-term economic transformation if ...

The Indian tyre industry has raised concerns over the tightening availability of natural rubber (NR) during what is typically the peak tapping season, warning that prolonged supply constraints could ...