During the 19th century, rubber became a prized material as a result of the spread of the Industrial Revolution. The waterproof and flexible characteristics of rubber was used to produce pencil ...

Butyl rubber has been used for many years in tire curing bladder formulations in combination with phenol formaldehyde resin cure in order to meet the demanding service conditions that the bladder ...

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Chemical’s affiliate ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha (EMYK) announced that Japan Butyl Co. Ltd. has completed a major expansion to increase butyl rubber production ...

There was some good news on the rubber front last week: frantic experiments by Standard Oil (N.J.) to improve its famed butyl rubber process have finally produced a way to make much more butyl with ...