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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Bridgestone a research grant, after the tire company has spent more than a decade researching the desert shrub called guayule that promises to be a possible ...

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 ...

By Michael Kofi FosuFor more than a decade, a quiet crisis has unfolded in Ghana’s Western and Central regions. While thousands of hectares of rubber trees are tapped, local processing factories — ...

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 ...