Dandelions are modest plants that are an excellent alternative source for a raw material of high demand: natural rubber, the fundamental ingredient in rubber products. Fraunhofer researchers have ...

Tire producer Bridgestone and food ingredient manufacturer Ajinomoto have developed a process for making synthetic rubber with isoprene obtained from biomass. Currently, polyisoprene rubber is ...

HOUSTON — At a test track in Texas last month, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. researchers discovered they are getting close to accomplishing a feat that eluded the great American inventor Thomas Edison. The ...

Guayule is a woody shrub that thrives in the desert Southwest and Northern Mexico We've been growing guayule in Arizona since the 1940s, when we started as part of the war effort Natural rubber is ...