Tire company Bridgestone is investing in research on guayule — a tough, desert-growing shrub that can be used to make natural rubber. The manufacturer has cultivated 281 acres of the new crop so far ...

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 ...

SCHKOPAU, Germany — Polish synthetic rubber producer Synthos S.A. and Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. have agreed to collaborate on the development, testing and evaluation of recycled rubber and its ...

TOBOLSK, December 10. /TASS/. Sibur, in collaboration with tire makers, is in end-stage tests on tires made of synthetic rubber, which could potentially replace natural rubber on the market very soon, ...

SEOUL, South Korea—Nobody said sustainability was going to be easy. And that's OK with Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. Because the tire maker is going to do it anyway. The way Hankook sees it, ...

Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited. Polyisoprene is the principal component of natural rubber and of many ...

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 ...

The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers' Association said it recently had observed "signs of declining demand" and expressed concerns that challenges linked to the rising cost of gas and supply of ...

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 ...