For years, tire makers have touted their investments in the exploration and cultivation of alternative natural rubbers. Bridgestone, of course, is betting on guayule. Continental, meanwhile, has been ...

AKRON—Guayule rubber is passing all its physical tests with one year to go in a government-funded project to assess its feasibility as an ingredient in mass-produced tires, according to Howard Colvin, ...

AKRON—On one hand, there is guayule, the shrub native to the Sonoran desert that for 100 years has been the focus of efforts to make it a commercially viable source of natural rubber. On the other, ...

The rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, remains the primary commercial source of natural rubber, a versatile biopolymer with unique elasticity and resilience. Central to its economic importance is a ...

Although we're in no danger of running short of our primary source of natural rubber, prices have risen dramatically over the past 10 years, contributing to rising prices for tires. The primary ...

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 ...

It has been claimed that Russian dandelion (Taraxcacum kok-saghyz) and Guayule (Parthenium argentatum) performs like Hevea rubber but contains none of the proteins that cause latex allergies. It is a ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 204, No. 1079 (Jan. 9, 1951), pp. 569-585 (17 pages) Rubber cyclization provides a useful illustration of ...

MILAN, Italy — Pirelli & C. S.p.A. has struck a deal to buy Hevea-Tec, a business considered the largest independent processor of natural rubber in Brazil, in a bid to ensure continuity of NR supply ...

Natural rubber (polyisoprene) from the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis is synthesized by specialized cells called laticifers. It is not clear how rubber particles arise, although one hypothesis is that ...