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About 12 million tons of natural rubber is produced around the world every year. Despite the spread in the use of synthetic rubbers, which are made of crude oil, tires for large vehicles and ...

After the war ended, demand and supply gradually returned to Brazil and eventually to synthetic tires made from petrochemicals. Now, Continental Tires is producing dandelion rubber tires called ...

AT a recent International Rubber Research & Development Board meeting in Bangkok hosted by the Rubber Authority of Thailand, representatives from rubber producing countries met to discuss the ...