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

Around 1839, American inventor Charles Goodyear came up with the vulcanization process, in which latex from the Brazilian rubber tree is heated with sulfur. The sulfur causes the polymer chains of ...

The rubber used in this country comes from tree plantations in Southeast Asia ... In the early 1940s, dandelions were grown in 40 states and a processing plant was built in New Jersey.

The process of growing and harvesting rubber from trees is laborious. From the time you plant the tree it takes five or six years before any harvesting can begin. Then every day for the next 20 to ...

Also, ca. 23 MT/ha of carbon (i.e. 84 MT of CO2 equalent) is taken away from the tree as rubber (latex yield) in 30 year lifespan. Almost all rubber harvested as latex is subjected to vulcanization in ...

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 ...