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 ...

Ohio State scientists are working to increase rubber production in the U.S. by researching ways to make the extraction of latex from dandelions and desert shrubs more efficient as threats of plant ...

CEO Dave Witte is bringing his company to Akron, where he says it will employ billions of workers to produce a key ingredient used to make rubber — green, sustainable rubber, no less. Not billions of ...

SKOKIE, Ill.—In what is being touted as a groundbreaking partnership that ultimately could lead to an alternative source of natural rubber, Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. and LanzaTech NZ Inc. will team up to ...

Tire recycler Prism Worldwide, based in Kirkland, Washington, and Sherwood Industries, a family-owned sheet extruder of thermoplastics based in Niles, Illinois, partnered to introduce Prism’s ...

Six million smallholder farmers produce almost 90% of the world’s natural rubber: 70% of this goes to the tire industry, which then services other downstream users. Sold by the ton, there are some ...