Rubber - A Key Ingredient in World Business

Rubber is one of the most common and essential commodities in the world.

Rubber insert was first developed by the Olmecs. Centuries later, their knowledge of natural latex from Heveas tree gave up the ancient Mayans. They would heat up and cook the latex, and use it to make sports balls.

Today, its use is widespread, ranging from consumer to industrial goods, whether a component or end product. The majority of rubber - around 56% - tires and tubes - is used for two types of products.

Production

About 21 million tons of rubber were produced in 2005, of which 58% was synthetic and 42% was natural. Since the majority of the rubber is synthetic and produced from oil, the price of natural rubber is strongly influenced by the global oil price.

For the natural rubber manufacturer, the main source of natural rubber is Asia, which produces about 94% of production in 2005.

Natural rubber is widely used in its native continent of South America, because the South American leaf blight and other pests naturally produced there.

Rubber is one of the most common and essential commodities in the world. Today, its use is widespread, ranging from consumer to industrial goods, whether a component or end product. The majority of rubber - around 56% - tires and tubes - is used for two types of products.

Manufacturing

Rubber is used widely in our daily lives, a rubber engineer can configure this versatile resource for many uses. Here are some top uses:

• Adhesives - Significant amounts of rubber is used as adhesives in many products, especially the carpet and paper industries.
• Automotive - including door and window profiles, hoses, belts, mats, floor coverings and dampers for automobiles.
• Aviation - Aircraft tires and tubes are often compared to that of natural rubber because of the lower cost of the security certificate, with synthetic components.
• Clothing and Apparel
• Gloves (consumers, industry, medicine) are also large consumers of rubber, latex concentrates in the rule.
• Household goods - rubber is a pencil eraser to produce and rubber bands.
• Rubber is also used to produce elastic. This is of course widely used in the apparel industry, from underwear, socks, because of its excellent properties of the strain and.
• Rubber is elastic not see too often in clothing. Due to the nature and appearance, and the difficulty of dyeing, is rubber-elastic material is covered either by other, or directly into tissue.