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 ...

My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers, but surely here's a biotech application with which they can relate: a renewable fermentation process that ...

The rubber process oil market continues to evolve as rubber manufacturers focus on improving compound consistency and processing efficiency across diverse applications. RPOs such as TDAE, DAE, MES, ...

The Rubber Process Analyzer (RPA) is an important tool for developing – and controlling the reliable manufacture of – elastomers and compounds. The RPA can provide far more information than ...

Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...