ELAMGULAM, Kerala (Reuters) - Several rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the tyre-making ...

Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber—one of the world's most widely used biomaterials—hasn't improved much. Until now. Materials researchers at ...

HAINAN, China—An automated rubber tapping robot, featuring long-range low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN), has won a first-of-its-kind design award in China. The automation and monitoring system ...

At a ground in the middle of a 7,500-acre secondary forest surrounded by an old-growth forest in the northern Lao province of Luang Namtha close to the Chinese border, dozens of local rubber tappers ...

The Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) has voiced concern over the quality of domestically produced natural rubber, noting that it is lot rubber (low grade) which constitutes almost ...

MUMBAI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Indian rubber prices may rise this week to near record high riding on strong demand from tyre-makers amid limited supplies due to rains in key growing regions, dealers said.

Rubber Research Institute of India has developed a mobile app -- ‘CRISP’ (Comprehensive Rubber Information System Platform) in collaboration with Digital University of Kerala. The information on ...

ELAMGULAM, India, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Several Indian rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the ...