Kultevat looks to fill gap in domestic NR source with TKS dandelion20220817220734

Kultevat looks to fill gap in domestic NR source with TKS dandelion

By SAM COTTRILL August 08, 2022 05:01 PM Over the years, the need for a domestic supply of natural rubber in the U.S. has become glaringly obvious. Th...
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This Eco-friendly Tire Made from Dandelions, Rice Uses 35% Renewable Materials20210925203651

This Eco-friendly Tire Made from Dandelions, Rice Uses 35% Renewable Materials

By Anna Wells Sept 24, 2021 Perhaps the busiest yet most underrated feature supporting your daily commute is your car’s tires … an item that tire make...
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What The Rubber ‘Apocalypse’ Means For The U.S. Economy20210821215000

What The Rubber ‘Apocalypse’ Means For The U.S. Economy

By CNBC Jul 9, 2021 The global economy now faces a rubber shortage because of multiple supply chain disruptions. “We could be on the cusp of a r...
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Rubber Scarcity Creates New Headache for Beleaguered Automakers20210508011910

Rubber Scarcity Creates New Headache for Beleaguered Automakers

By Gabrielle Coppola and Randy Thanthong-Knight April 13, 2021, 4:00 AM PDT Updated on April 13, 2021, 7:48 AM PDT As supply chain challenges pile up,...
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Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world’s rubber trees.20210312045510

Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world’s rubber trees.

By Frank Swain8th March 2021 Do we need to find alternative sources of rubber before it’s too late? Natural rubber is a uniquely tough, flexible...
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Kultevat licenses biotech trait technologies from Performance Plants for natural rubber20201027180032

Kultevat licenses biotech trait technologies from Performance Plants for natural rubber

By BioFuels Digest | October 11, 2020 In Canada, Performance Plants Inc. and Missouri-based Kultevat Inc. signed a commercial license agreement, givin...
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BKT signs R&D pact with Kultevat to study dandelion rubber20180424181629

BKT signs R&D pact with Kultevat to study dandelion rubber

By Tire Business Staff | Apr 24, 2018 BHUJ, India — India’s Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (BKT) has begun working with U.S. biotechnology company K...
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Davos on Delta explores future of AG20180412181746

Davos on Delta explores future of AG

By Brad Robb | Apr 12, 2018 Spring-boarding off the success from its initial event in 2017, organizers of Davos on the Delta are shaping the agenda fo...
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EU declares NR a ‘critical’ raw material20170628182043

EU declares NR a ‘critical’ raw material

BRUSSELS — The European Union (EU) has declared natural rubber (NR) a “critical raw material,” meaning the EU recognizes the need “t...
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Alternative sources of rubber have arrived20170404182149

Alternative sources of rubber have arrived

HILTON HEAD, S.C.—Alternative sources of rubber are no longer in the realm of speculation, but now are viable technologies for tire manufacturing, acc...
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Ready with Alternative20170104181921

Ready with Alternative

By TA News Bureau In 1995 Daniel R Swiger founded Yulex Corporation, a venture-backed company to commercialise guayule, an alternative to Hevea rubber...
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Kultevat And KeyGene Enter Into A Partnership And License Agreement To Scale Up Dandelion Rubber Production In North America20161011182233

Kultevat And KeyGene Enter Into A Partnership And License Agreement To Scale Up Dandelion Rubber Production In North America

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Kultevat Inc. (St. Louis, MO) and KeyGene Inc. (Wageningen, The Netherlands) have extended their researc...
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