FINDLAY, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cooper Tire & Rubber Company and its consortium partners, including Clemson University, Cornell University, PanAridus and the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S.

The Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona is the hottest desert in the United States. The climate is severe, delivering an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture thanks to its warm subtropical ...

For the past century, tire manufacturers have sought alternatives to the natural rubber grown on Southeast Asian rubber plantations. Dependence on a single region for the critical raw material has ...

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 ...

Rubber is a substance usually made from petroleum or from the Asian rubber tree plant. But rubber can also be produced from a domestic plant called "guayule." Guayule is a woody desert shrub ...

The guayule plant can produce a substitute source of rubber. Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cooper Tire and Rubber has completed builds of tires made of natural rubber sourced from the ...

SAN DIEGO (Nov. 15, 2013) — Biomaterials company Yulex Corp. is collaborating with SGB Inc., an agricultural biotechnology company to establish a genomics and molecular breeding platform focused on ...

FINDLAY, Ohio—Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and its consortium partners have completed their five-year, $6.9 million Biomass Research and Development Initiative grant on guayule rubber. Cooper ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bridgestone Americas Inc. plans to invest an additional $42 million in the coming years to commercialize guayule, a woody desert shrub, as a domestic source of natural rubber.