Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains that make it pliable and stretchy yet highly resistant to cracking and ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...

Natural rubber is an extremely important, agricultural resource vital to all modern economies. It is curiously underappreciated because many people assume that all rubber is synthetic [1]. However, ...

New York, United States, Jan. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Natural Rubber Market Size is to Grow from USD 16.5 Billion in 2022 to USD 25.2 Billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate ...

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 ...

Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured biomaterials, has been used by humans for thousands of years. Its resistance to crack growth, however, hasn't improved much for decades.

An hevea producer incises a tree trunk in order to extract the rubber sap, in his plantation in the village of Memni in the sub-prefecture of Alepe, Ivory Coast, Aug. 1, 2018. SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty ...

Rising raw material prices and geopolitical tensions are straining India's rubber MSMEs, warns AIRIA president Anay Gupta.

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 ...

Global natural rubber futures gained across all major exchanges, hitting a nine-month high as trading volumes increased after the new year holidays. The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber ...