COLUMBUS, Ohio—Katrina Cornish has dedicated more than three decades to establishing a source for domestic natural rubber in the U.S. This, along with her work inventing new technology for cultivating ...

Natural rubber is a wonder material. Few discoveries or innovations come close to its impact on manufacturing, and the car industry is just one of many that depend on it for critical components, such ...

Dunlop is a British brand, but depending on where in the world you buy its high-performance tires, a different parent company might handle the manufacturing.

Mr. Slack discussed his book, [Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century,] published by Hyperion. In it, he ...

Charles Goodyear's name lives on as well, adopted in his honor nearly 40 years after his death by a new rubber company based in Akron, Ohio.

Chuck Pilliod, a World War II bomber pilot, led Goodyear when it was besieged by Japanese and European rivals. His heavy investments kept the Akron company in U.S. hands.

Edward Kresge, the 2010 Charles Goodyear Medalist who held 50 patents after 32 years at Exxon Chemical Co., died Oct. 30 at the age of 88.

AKRON — Goodyear was founded 125 years ago on Aug. 29, 1898. The company's first sale — for $25.80 in rubber tubes for medicine bottles — was recorded in December of that year. Today, Goodyear is the ...

In 1839, Charles Goodyear was on the verge of a momentous discovery. Natural rubber is useful within only a narrow temperature window—it becomes a foul-smelling goo at slightly elevated ...

Goodyear is famous for making tires, but what makes their tires so respected is also what makes their floor mats popular as well. In 1839, Charles Goodyear unearthed the wisdom that the addition ...

Dunlop is a British brand, but depending on where in the world you buy its high-performance tires, a different parent company might handle the manufacturing.