Extreme weather, including torrential monsoon downpours and a powerful typhoon, reduced rubber production levels in Asia and sent prices soaring to 13-year highs, according to Reuters. A series of ...

The "Assessment of Vietnam's Rubber Industry 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

What will the rubber industry look like in the next 50 years? Integrated and automated, for sure, but will it even feature natural rubber? It is an audacious task to forecast the future of any ...

From automobile and aircraft tires, to belts and hoses, natural rubber production is essential to modern production. Unfortunately, the world’s primary rubber supply—the tropical rubber tree Hevea ...

HANGZHOU, China — Zhongce Rubber Group Co. Ltd. (ZC Rubber), China's largest tire maker and No. 9 globally, has inaugurated production at its newest factory, a "5G digital" facility in Hangzhou ...

When most people think of forest products, they think of wood — lumber and building products — or pulp-based materials such as paper and cardboard. While it is true that these make up the bulk of ...

• A recession arrives, causing havoc throughout the industry and leading to layoffs of white- and blue-collar workers. • Unions do their best to protect their workers, but the URW itself lays off 33 ...

Despite Kerala raising the rubber MSP to ₹200 per kg, farmers say technical delays are preventing them from claiming the ...

Six million smallholder farmers produce almost 90% of the world’s natural rubber: 70% of this goes to the tire industry, which then services other downstream users. Sold by the ton, there are some ...

Since 2001, when the gene of the compound needed to create rubber was first identified, there has been a lot of pressure on scientists and tire industries to get some traction in the search for ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Global production of natural rubber is likely to fall by nearly 5% this year as the coronavirus pandemic has depressed demand and put the industry in crisis, the Association of ...