Natural rubbers, before vulcanization, tend to be sticky and soft at high temperatures, while at low temperatures they are brittle and stiff, making them difficult to process. Because of these properties as well as the difficulties associated with...

Synthetic rubber is any type of artificially made polymer material which acts as an elastomer. An elastomer is a material with the mechanical (or material) property that it can undergo much more elastic deformation under stress than most materials and...

IISRP: Use to snowball 1.1% in CIS HOUSTON - Rubber demand will rebound in the former Soviet Bloc in 1998 and grow slowly in western Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a new study. After showing a 3.4-percent decline...

Synthetic rubber, which is produced by polymerization, may be classified into four groups of product: elastomer, hard plastics, reinforcing resins and paint vehicles. The type of elastomer widely used in Indonesia is styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), the raw material for automotive tires. ...

Thick, billowing smoke and flames continued pouring from at least one ruptured tanker car Wednesday, a day after a train derailment spilled flammable chemicals and lead to evacuations.Fire officials had put out some of the flames, but other spots were being left to burn out...

European Union regulators slapped five companies — including DuPont and Dow Chemical Co. — with $358 million in fines Wednesday for fixing the price of a type of rubber used to make everything from shoe soles to condoms.The EU said the cartel operated between 1993...