CCJ

With tire prices soaring, Goodyear seeks domestic rubber alternative

In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...
The New York Times

RUBBER-GROWING TESTS.; Experiments with Cultivated Trees in Nicaragua Successful.

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Agri-Pulse

From weeds to wheels: Goodyear hopes to make rubber out of dandelion

The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...
Motor Trend

Rubber Match: What Happens if the Rubber For Our Tires Stops Growing on Trees?

Microcyclus uleivirtually wiped out the Brazilian rubber industry, and while strict quarantine measures adopted in 1955 continue to protect the rubber industry in southeast Asia (which supplies 93 ...
Autoblog

A fungus among us: rubber tree parasite threatens tire industry

A parasite named microcyclus ulei has already inflicted substantial harm on rubber harvests in Central and Latin America, and experts fear that plantations in Africa and Asia could be next. The ...
The New York Times

The Cultivated Rubber Tree.

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