RUBBER Synthetic and the Future The Office of Rubber Director asked permission last week to cut its own throat. It was the first wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro duction, ...

Advances in microbial fermentation are being explored to generate isoprene, an essential monomer in rubber manufacturing.

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Artificial turf fields are just about everywhere in the U.S. They’re used in countless parks, sports fields and stadiums from coast to coast. If you’ve ever walked on one, you’ve probably ...

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 ...

LONDON—The severe escalation in Ukraine has raised concerns over possible disruption to the European petrochemical market, with synthetic rubber among the sectors facing potential fallout. According ...

Environmentally conscious sports fans are looking to replace rubber and plastic in artificial turf with natural materials like walnuts. It’s more expensive, but cleaner and greener if grass isn’t an ...

BANGKOK—Zhuang Yi, chief specialist in synthetic materials for China Petroleum and Chemical Group (Sinopec), will serve as the 2024-25 president-international of the International Institute of ...