Synthetic rubber’s negative environmental impact has caused most countries across the world to legislate and control its production. Globally, over 1 billion tires end up in landfills each year, and most of them are made with non-biodegradable synthetic rubber.

The production of synthetic rubber requires abrasive solvents which create 100+ pollutants that flow out of synthetic rubber smoke stacks. This also results in over 1.3 million gallons of spilled petroleum each year. With synthetic rubber, our global supply chain is locked into unsustainable and non-biodegradable polymers.

The plants typically used to extract Natural Rubber are Guayule and the Hevea Tree. These plants take years to grow, and have significantly lower yields than the TKS dandelion. Although these plants are a natural solution, they are not scalable for mass production.

Natural Rubber manufacturers would need hundreds of thousands of acres, and years of staggered plant cycles to effectively produce rubber from Hevea and Guayule. This renders all current solutions for Natural Rubber unsustainable and unprofitable.

With years of Research and Development, Kultevat has developed state-of-the-art seed genetics and processing techniques for the TKS dandelion. This plant can grow in most regions of the United States, and only takes only one year to fully mature,

The TKS dandelion is the only Natural Rubber with a fully automated harvesting processes. With double the natural rubber yield as Guayule and Hevea, the TKS dandelion is the most sustainable and scalable natural rubber solution on the market.