More than half the world's rubber now comes not from weeping wood but gushing oil. Attempts to make synthetic rubber began as the natural stuff grew popular, and took off during World War Two.

After the war ended, demand and supply gradually returned to Brazil and eventually to synthetic tires made ... the only additive needed during the rubber extraction process is hot water, unlike ...

Bridgestone Americas, a subsidiary of Bridgestone in Japan, will use a federal grant to develop a pilot plant to research ...

Despite the spread in the use of synthetic rubbers ... now trying to develop varieties that contain more rubber, as well as technologies to extract it. Japanese tire maker Sumitomo Rubber ...

Rubber tubing is flexible and resilient due to its natural or synthetic rubber construction. What distinguishes rubber tubing from other types of tubing is its rubber-based construction. Rubbers are ...

The demand for synthetic polyisoprene rubber industry is likely to be driven by its widespread application in the ...

Listings of numerous elastomer and rubber material chemical systems are available on the Engineering360 SpecSearch Database. Some of the most common include butyl, silicone, polyurethane, and isoprene ...

But these days most manufacturers offer only synthetic rubber for all your masticating needs. And that’s made from petroleum. In other words, your chewing gum is extracted from beneath the earth ...

At first glance, synthetic data would appear to be the solution to all these problems. Need annotations? Generate ’em. More example data? No problem. The sky’s the limit. And to a certain ...

Synthetic oil used to be something only performance cars needed, but not anymore. Now it’s the manufacturer-recommended engine lubricant in many mainstream vehicles, such as the Subaru Forester ...

The US Energy Information Administration has reported that US exports of ethane and ethane-based petrochemicals reached an ...