Another boon for small-plant rubber is that while petroleum ... Yulex, based in San Diego, capitalizes on the lighter, more flexible rubber produced by guayule, and the lack of allergy-trigger ...

The Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona is the hottest desert in the United States. The climate is severe, delivering an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture thanks to its warm ...

There is some limit to how much rubber any plant can produce, Dierig says, but it is hard to know where that limit is. He says that high-molecular-weight rubber—the kind used for tires—was ...

Rubber is a polymer made of latex, a substance naturally produced in the sap of a number of plants. Today, though, almost all of the world’s rubber supply comes from Hevea brasiliensis ...

Rubber plants are usually actively growing in spring ... but it will take more time to produce new roots.

has produced chloroprene rubber since December 2014. The company acquired the plant from DuPont in November 2015. As of last December, the plant employed 250 workers. But Denka said the facility ...