A novel conceptual physico-chemical peptizer effectively reduces the Mooney viscosity of natural rubber compounds, while ...

If you watched the 2022 Indy Car Music City Grand Prix, you might have noticed—between the multitude of crashes, that is—cars running Firestone tires with green stripes. The green denotes the use of ...

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 ...

The road to 100 is paved with possibility. The journey, driven by ingenuity. And for Continental A.G., the road to 100 is defined by responsibility. Because when it comes to tire manufacturing, ...

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 ...

DUBLIN, Ireland—In theory, ensuring a sustainable natural rubber supply shouldn't be that difficult. Natural rubber is, after all, tapped from rubber trees, a sustainable source on its merits. About ...

While I may be a bit biased, modern radial truck tires and retreads are engineering marvels. When properly loaded and inflated, they perform in every environmental and operational condition with a ...

Oftentimes we have goods in our home and we don’t have any clue how these goods are actually made! Rubber is one of those mysterious materials that are surprisingly used in lots of our everyday items.

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 ...

THE rubber shortage, the gravest material crisis this country has ever faced, is at last on the road to solution. Synthetic rubber has turned the corner. Big factories are rapidly coming into ...