Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious ...

"Natural rubber compounds are extremely flexible, a good form of electrical insulators, and are resistant to many corrosive substances," said Bonggeun Kim, ESG team manager at Hankook Tire & ...

The chemical structure of the elastomers provides them with an inherent hardness that can be altered. The modified hardness is then measured in terms of of durometer (duro) on a Shore scale. Shore A ...

Producing natural rubber is also laborious: After harvesting the tree, latex is collected, processed, refined and coagulated. Rubber is then teased out of the latex.

Natural rubber is widely considered a more eco-friendly and better product than synthetic rubber, but it still presents some issues. Natural rubber contributes to deforestation, biodiversity loss ...