Racing tires are shredded into quarter-sized chips that can be used as aggregate in roadbeds, landfill liners and landscaping ...

New Rubber Recycling Method Could Reduce Tire Waste A new mild, two-step chemical process breaks down synthetic rubber, enabling its recycling into valuable materials.

The Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World War I. Polymerization (the process of linking molecules together in long ...

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Synthetic rubber: High performance tires which require various weather conditions and road stresses are much dependent on synthetic rubber comparing to natural rubber.

Today, rubber materials are found everywhere, supporting areas like transportation, health services, and consumer products.

The South American synthetic rubber market has significant potential due to the region's large automobile industry and growing demand for durable and high-performance rubber products in various ...

The world produces about 2 billion tires each year, and while synthetic rubbers are used in modest amounts, most road tires use a lot of natural rubber from the para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis).

One of the great races in U.S. industrial history ended last week. Both Firestone Tire and U.S. Rubber began to turn out synthetic rubber—the first produced under the Government’s original ...

Those little rubber bands look simple, but the process of making them is more complicated than you might think. Here’s the ...