Tokyo - Zeon Corp has broken ground on a bench-scale facility to produce "highly efficiently" butadiene from ethanol derived from biomass and other sources. The unit will be built at Zeon’s Tokuyama ...

Synthetic Polyisoprene Rubber Market Synthetic polyisoprene rubber is gaining ground in medical implants and wearables due to its biocompatibility, elasticity, and latex-free safety advantages.

In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have used a piece of ...

SINGAPORE, May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cariflex Pte. Ltd. (Cariflex), the global market leader in polyisoprene rubber latex for medical-end markets and wholly owned subsidiary of DL Chemical Co ...

Cariflex’s polyisoprene rubber latex is a synthetic, water-based polymer latex, especially suitable for surgical gloves and condoms – the applications where allergies to natural rubber latex is a ...

Isobutene-isoprene rubber (90 Fed. Reg. 14689): Petition filed by Arlanxeo USA LLC and Arlanxeo Canada Inc., importers and exporters of isobutene-isoprene rubber; ...

Yokohama Rubber has been granted a patent for a pneumatic tire design. The tire includes an innerliner and a tie rubber, with specific compositions for each. The innerliner rubber composition ...