Guayule is a rubber-producing plant that could offer a domestic, and thus more stable, supply. Although we're in no danger of running short of our primary source of natural rubber, prices have risen ...

Natural rubber production is expected to be below demand for the fifth year in a row in 2025. According to the Association of ...

Automotive sector growth in emerging and advanced economies fuels consumption. Production faces challenges from weather and diseases. China, Europe, and the US will see demand recovery. This imbalance ...

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 ...

QuberTech, a start-up company based at Norwich Research Park, is attempting to transform the production of rubber with ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The supply of natural rubber (NR) is expected to remain tight in the months to come, due in part to "circular leaf spot disease," which has plagued plantations in northern ...

Chinese researchers have turned to the Gobi Desert as a testing ground for high-value rubber-producing trees. Rubber derived from the Duzhong plant has proven especially valuable for defence ...

When most people think of forest products, they think of wood — lumber and building products — or pulp-based materials such as paper and cardboard. While it is true that these make up the bulk of ...