Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

Bridgestone Americas, a subsidiary of the Japanese tire giant, opened a 10-acre facility in Mesa The plant will produce rubber from a woody desert plant called guayule Bridgestone is trying to develop ...

Edison, Firestone, Ford, or Rockefeller, the giants of American industry and invention believed one crop could rule them all: natural rubber. Industrialization, subterfuge and war couldn’t gain rubber ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A comprehensive and systematic approach to reorganise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of higher-yielding rubber tree varieties, will be critical for ...