Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

Rubber trees are back. After years and years of virtual absence from the list of potted plant possibilities, they have started appearing in shopping malls and office buildings again. Perhaps it was ...

Edison, Firestone, Ford, or Rockefeller, the giants of American industry and invention believed one crop could rule them all: natural rubber. Industrialization, subterfuge and war couldn’t gain rubber ...

General Motors wants to make the global rubber supply chain easier on the environment. The automaker said it wants to find ways to keep better track of the thousands of farms disbursed across the rain ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A comprehensive and systematic approach to reorganise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of higher-yielding rubber tree varieties, will be critical for ...