CLEVELAND, Ohio – A primary ingredient in tires is butadiene, a chemical compound derived from fossil fuels. But if Bridgestone Americas is successful with a pilot project, the company will make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, announced today it has entered into a definitive ...

NEW YORK & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a system (the System 1) to calculate the carbon footprint of products (CFP 2) for the ...