CLEVELAND, Ohio – A primary ingredient in tires is butadiene, a chemical compound derived from fossil fuels. But if Bridgestone Americas is successful with a pilot project, the company will make ...

Many people know that most of Germany’s army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic ...

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 ...

Each year, factories around the world churn out more than 12 million metric tons of the organic chemical 1,3-butadiene, which is used in tires, adhesives, sealants and other plastic and rubber ...

NEW YORK & DÜSSELDORF, Germany & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, will begin the sale of Tufdene™ S-SBR (solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber ...

Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited. Polyisoprene is the principal component of natural rubber and of many ...

If you’re like us, you spend an unhealthy amount of your precious time thinking about tires. If you’re like everyone else, you probably only consider your tires when they’re causing you problems or ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Poland's Synthos S.A. has grand plans related to sustainability, both now and in the future. The firm said it will build its first bio-butadiene facility; has received an important ...

NEW YORK & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a system (the System 1) to calculate the carbon footprint of products (CFP 2) for the ...