KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The supply of natural rubber (NR) is expected to remain tight in the months to come, due in part to "circular leaf spot disease," which has plagued plantations in northern ...

However, on a year-on-year basis, natural rubber production recorded a decrease of 11.3 percent as compared to 105,715 tons in the third quarter of 2024, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) ...

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 ...

KOBE, Japan—Sumitomo Rubber Industries has succeeded in elucidation and functional modification of cis-prenyltransferase (NDPS1)—an achievement that is claimed to advance the synthetic production of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ensuring a domestic supply of natural rubber is critical, and Ohio State University researchers are focusing efforts to do just that. To this end, they have received a five-year, $26 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Bernama) -- The government is of the view that increasing natural rubber production to at least 400,000 tonnes of cuplump and 20,000 tonnes of latex will directly reduce ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35 million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global procurement intelligence advisory firm, SpendEdge, has announced the release of their ‘Natural Rubber Procurement Research Report.’ The insights and data in this report ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global and China Natural Rubber Industry Report, 2016-2020" report to their offering. Since 2011, the global natural ...