BERWYN, Pa.—Styron L.L.C. plans to convert a nickel butadiene rubber line at a plant it operates in Schkopau, Germany, to the production of neodymium butadiene rubber. It will begin converting the ...

BLUE RIDGE, Ga.—Kismet Rubber Products Corp. is expanding and diversifying its operation with the addition of two production lines. It also has developed a new rubber compound that the firm ...

Ohio State scientists are working to increase rubber production in the U.S. by researching ways to make the extraction of latex from dandelions and desert shrubs more efficient as threats of plant ...

Rubber, with its diverse uses and unique properties, is integral to modern industrial society. The history of rubber production for the market still shapes our world today A worker collects sap from a ...

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 ...

As a result of falling demand in the automotive and tyre sectors, global butadiene and synthetic rubber prices are declining.

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 ...

A bountiful monsoon in Kerala has rekindled the hopes of natural rubber farmers, who expect to achieve at least 5-10 per cent production growth in this financial year. “If tapping days are not lost in ...

Mangaluru: The govt must officially recognise rubber as a horticulture crop so that thousands of growers, who have long been denied support, will get essential govt scheme benefits, said Vigneshwara ...