JOHOR BARU: For years, furniture makers have been facing a shortage of rubber wood, an important raw material used to produce durable fixtures. Muar Furniture Association president Steve Ong said the ...

Can you make high-end luxury furniture with a cheap material like recycled rubber? Looking at the catalog of New York City-based designer company Slash Objects, the answer is a resounding yes. The ...

Rubberwood is the name given to lumber from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), which is a tree producing latex to produce natural rubber. (Other names today include parawood and Malaysian oak.) ...

Don’t have a rubber mallet on hand? Convert a ball peen hammer into a mini mallet with an old rubber furniture foot. Mallets are great for assembling furniture and tapping wood into place, without ...

We all know sap is collected from rubber trees to produce rubber goods like tires, latex, gloves and boots. But do you know what happens to the tree after it stops producing sap (15 to 20 years)?

Rex Krueger is an up and coming woodworking YouTuber whose schtick tends toward traditional and pragmatic handtool woodworking for hobbyists, but a recent post focused on industrial woodworking to ...

With its art-inflected approach to design and a spacious workshop in Brooklyn at its disposal, the young design studio Wintercheck Factory has steadily amassed a growing collection of furniture that ...

Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, under the guidance of Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC), has initiated the manufacturing of furniture from rubber wood ...

Charles Goodyear's obsession began one auspicious day in New York. He’d always been a tinkerer and a new “miracle” substance, rubber, had caught his fancy. He’d developed an improved valve for a ...

London design studio Study O Portable has created Rubber Rocks, a collection of furniture for Gallery Fumi that is made from rubber but resembles "weathered architectural elements". The collection ...