Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber—one of the world's most widely used biomaterials—hasn't improved much. Until now. Materials researchers at ...

Natural rubber (NR) is considered to be an important industrial crop and is contained predominantly in the milky sap or latex of a tree known as Hevea brasiliensis, as well as a small amount of ...

In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE — The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) general assembly has voted to include smallholder farmers in the natural rubber value-chain platform's decision-making process.

Car tyres are black today due to the addition of carbon black, a substance that significantly enhances rubber's performance ...

Rube, the Rubber Board's online marketplace, has facilitated ₹680 crore in trades since 2022, enhancing rubber trade ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global and China Natural Rubber Industry Report, 2017-2021" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. In 2016, the global natural rubber output edged up ...

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 ...