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 ...

LONDON—Progress continues on a new multimillion-dollar latex and natural rubber processing facility for Corrie MacColl Ltd. in Cameroon that's slated to be operational later this year. The ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Bridgestone a research grant, after the tire company has spent more than a decade researching the desert shrub called guayule that promises to be a possible ...

By Michael Kofi FosuFor more than a decade, a quiet crisis has unfolded in Ghana’s Western and Central regions. While thousands of hectares of rubber trees are tapped, local processing factories — ...