Cooper Tire and Rubber has completed builds of tires made of natural rubber sourced from the guayule plant. The company announced the progress as part of an update on the $6.9 million project, funded ...

The Firestone Firehawk guayule race tire will make its on-track debut this weekend at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix on the streets of Nashville, another milestone in the efforts of Firestone ...

A new generation of environmentally-friendly tires has been launched in Europe. Dutch tire company Apollo Vredestein has produced prototypes of tires manufactured using natural rubber made from ...

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AKRON—Guayule rubber is passing all its physical tests with one year to go in a government-funded project to assess its feasibility as an ingredient in mass-produced tires, according to Howard Colvin, ...

PEARSALL, Texas — Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. researchers have determined that guayule rubber is a viable substitute for natural and synthetic rubber in building tires and could start using it ...

PITTSBURGH — Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and Ford Motor Co. are at the forefront of manufacturers researching potential commercial uses for rubber from the desert shrub guayule, speakers from both ...

HILTON HEAD, S.C.—An alternative, sustainable domestic source of natural rubber may be as little as a decade away, thanks to intensive research by Bridgestone Americas Inc., a Bridgestone Americas ...

The U.S. last week took its biggest single step yet toward future self-sufficiency in rubber. The Department of Agriculture okayed a $25,000,000 project to plant 45,000 acres in the Southwest with ...

Superb natural latex from a desert shrub called guayule (why-YOU-lee) makes high-quality gloves, medical devices, and other in-demand natural rubber products. But guayule may also prove to be an ...

Twenty years ago, scientists at the University of Arizona began studying guayule, a small desert shrub farmed as a source of natural rubber. The research helped one Arizona company commercialize ...

Bridgestone, a global leader in tires and rubber, has announced an additional commitment of $42 million to establish commercial operations for planting and harvesting guayule – a woody desert shrub ...