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 ...

MUMBAI/JAKARTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Global natural rubber output could drop for a second straight year in 2015 as prices near six-year lows have prompted Asian farmers to curtail tapping during their ...

Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber, the vast majority of it from small-scale farmers - Copyright AFP Jack TAYLOR Thailand is the world's ...

Japanese researchers say they have produced rubber from a natural substance extracted from an edible, wild mushroom commonly found in the country. Researchers at Gunma University, west of Tokyo, have ...

The onset of the North East monsoon with heavy rains has impacted natural rubber production in many growing belts of the ...

(WSAW) - Tree tapping this season doesn’t require snow boots. Only a light jacket is needed or maybe even no jacket at all. Here in Wisconsin, many farmers started their maple syrup production in ...

In the middle of this oddest of all odd election seasons, I bought a set of tires for my truck. They were made in Vietnam. This was not my first encounter with Vietnamese rubber products. In 1969 and ...