Rubber: there's nothing like the real thing. Manufacturers use synthetic rubber in toys and rubber bands and even passenger car tires, but higher performance products such as truck and aircraft tires ...

Edison, Firestone, Ford, or Rockefeller, the giants of American industry and invention believed one crop could rule them all: natural rubber. Industrialization, subterfuge and war couldn’t gain rubber ...

The rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis has a chequered and little-understood social history underlying its status as one of the world's most useful plants. Anthropological insight into its history can ...

Although we're in no danger of running short of our primary source of natural rubber, prices have risen dramatically over the past 10 years, contributing to rising prices for tires. The primary ...

Bridgestone Corporation is venturing into producing rubber from a new source at a brand-new biorubber process research center in Mesa. The plant is already in operation but will host a grand opening ...

Parthenium argentatum (guayule) or Taraxacum kok-saghyz (TKS). Which has the better chance of becoming the accepted alternative to traditional natural rubber, Hevea brasiliensis? Guayule, a desert ...

Aztecs tapped the sap of Hevea brasiliensis much as American Indians bled sugar maples for their sweet syrup. But the hevea rubber tree yielded something quite inedible—a thick, milky liquid we call ...

Purified shared the inception of its Hevea shoe was a four-year journey aimed at creating a "zero-plastic" shoe which is composed of Natural Fiber Welding (NFW)'s plastic-free Mirum and Pliant ...