Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber—one of the world's most widely ...

A new process retains the long polymer chains present in natural rubber, creating rubber materials that are 10x tougher than regular commercial materials. This new extra-tough rubber could have ...

At these plantations, about 220 rubber trees are planted per acre. They're ready for harvest in six or seven years. "The actual harvest method is a tree-by-tree manual process where workers use a ...

While the process isn't overly complex ... an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to the Pará rubber tree. As a result, it appears to be only a matter of time before consumers ...

Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured biomaterials, has been used by humans for thousands of years. Its resistance to crack ...

The Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA) is intensifying its efforts to enforce and educate stakeholders on its directive ...

The plantation and commodities ministry is conducting a study on the development of genomic technology to produce high-quality and disease-resistant rubber tree clones, the Dewan Rakyat was told ...