Many people know that most of Germany’s army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic ...

World War II was a tumultuous moment in history that changed many aspects of life today. One of its more peculiar ramifications is how it changed the way we make rubber tires. This transformation all ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A primary ingredient in tires is butadiene, a chemical compound derived from fossil fuels. But if Bridgestone Americas is successful with a pilot project, the company will make ...

Persistently high crude oil prices could eventually start weighing on the cost structure of India’s tyre industry, as key petrochemical inputs linked to oil move higher. Industry experts say sustained ...

One of the great races in U.S. industrial history ended last week. Both Firestone Tire and U.S. Rubber began to turn out synthetic rubber—the first produced under the Government’s original ...

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BANGKOK—Zhuang Yi, chief specialist in synthetic materials for China Petroleum and Chemical Group (Sinopec), will serve as the 2024-25 president-international of the International Institute of ...

HOUSTON—There is a transition in leadership at the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers for the first time in nine years. Juan Ramon Salinas is retiring as the association's managing ...

James Robert Innes received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Production of natural rubber has claimed over 4 million hectares of forest in south-east Asia ...

A recently published study has used high-resolution satellite data to show that deforestation linked to rubber cultivation is much higher than previously thought. Deforestation for rubber in Southeast ...