Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world's rubber trees. Do we need to find alternative sources of rubber before it's too late? Natural rubber is a ...

The U.S. automotive industry has been plagued with plant shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a global semiconductor chip shortage. Now raw material for rubber is in short supply. Rubber ...

Tyres. Elastic bands. Balloons. Shoes. There's a long list of items that are made from rubber: the waterproof, durable substance that's all around us, almost all of the time. "You could not have ...

For the past century, tire manufacturers have sought alternatives to the natural rubber grown on Southeast Asian rubber plantations. Dependence on a single region for the critical raw material has ...

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