rubber production
Tire material industry
Rubber production is the process of cultivating, harvesting, and processing rubber—primarily from the latex of rubber trees, though synthetic rubber is manufactured from petroleum.
Natural rubber production involves tapping trees for their milky sap, then coagulating and processing it into usable material.
The industry centers in Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Global rubber production has increased to meet tire demand.
- Hevea brasiliensisBotanical term for latex-producing tree
- vulcanizationChemically strengthening raw rubber
- tappingRepeated light striking
- smallholder farmingCultivation on modest plots
- latexMilky plant-derived polymer
coagulation · tire manufacturing · assembly line · mastication · rolling mills · smokehouse · polymerization · neoprene · agroforestry · Liberia · Charles Goodyear · plantation · curing · petrochemicals · elastomers · monomers · additives · extrusion
- heavy industrysteel mills, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters, foundries
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- African economydiamond mining, gold mining, copper mining, safari tourism, mobile banking
- war productionmunitions factories, weapons factories, weapons manufacturing, arms factories, arms manufacturing
- Gulf MexicoTabasco, Tampico, Veracruz, Emiliano Zapata, Candelaria
rubber productionfactory closure
Permanent end of manufacturing
industrial decline · deindustrialization · harvest failure · devulcanization