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

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio—Make no mistake, Seiichi Kawahara's presentation put the "technical" in the 199th Technical Meeting of the ACS Rubber Division. But the professor at Nagaoka University of Technology ...

Natural rubber, derived predominantly from the latex of Hevea brasiliensis, is renowned for its remarkable elasticity, resilience and tensile strength. Its unique performance stems from a complex ...

To make tire production more sustainable, Bridgestone is turning to a desert shrub called guayule as a source of natural rubber. Native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, guayule ...

Materials scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a method for creating natural rubber that significantly increases its resistance to ...

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, ...

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 ...

The AP says the future of road travel may lay in the American Chapparal and desert. A guayule shrub may be key perhaps to making the tires of tomorrow. "This plant is a lot more resilient than any ...