Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...

Natural rubber is an extremely important, agricultural resource vital to all modern economies. It is curiously underappreciated because many people assume that all rubber is synthetic [1]. However, ...

If you’ve read this column for any length of time, then you know I am obsessed with the fact that tires are agricultural products. Natural rubber is a key component in every tire, some more important ...

New York, United States, Jan. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Natural Rubber Market Size is to Grow from USD 16.5 Billion in 2022 to USD 25.2 Billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate ...

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 ...

With the guidance of renowned organic farming expert K. V. Dayal and technical support from the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII), the concept was transformed into a viable product.

Last October, I took some time off work at the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) to learn how to surf. Surfing has always been a dream of mine and one of the more advanced surfing ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, although in the case of guayule (pronounced wy-OO-lee) rubber, it's less a new idea than it is a reconciliation with the family. The Aztecs knew this scrubby ...

Michael Fraley, a Vice President with Yulex Corporation, cuts a guayule plant that can be used to make natural rubber, in 2008 David Kadlubowski/Corbis Rubber can be made from the latex of several ...

The sage-green, waist-high shrub guayule might look like just one of the many scraggly bushes that dot the hills and valleys of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. But its ...