Narrator: Have you ever wondered why all car tires you see are black? It wasn't always like this. When automakers first started using rubber tires, they were white, the color of natural rubber. And ...
The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...
In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...
AKRON—Sourcing domestic natural rubber has become a matter of national defense, and Goodyear is partnering with the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force and other entities to make such U.S.-based ...
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 ...
Six million smallholder farmers produce almost 90% of the world’s natural rubber: 70% of this goes to the tire industry, which then services other downstream users. Sold by the ton, there are some ...
THE rubber shortage, the gravest material crisis this country has ever faced, is at last on the road to solution. Synthetic rubber has turned the corner. Big factories are rapidly coming into ...
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