Governor’s Innovation Award finalist seeks growers »
Named a finalist in the Arizona Tech Council’s prestigious Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, Yulex Corporation is inviting farmers and agriculture leaders to learn about cultivating guayule and partnering with Yulex as the company expands in Arizona.
Meetings are scheduled for September 12, 15, and 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the University of Arizona’s [...]
EU funds €7.7 million program to produce rubber from guayule and other crops »
Known as the EU-PEARLS project, it is being coordinated by Wageningen University in the Netherlands with the involvement of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, and Kazakhstan. Yulex Corporation is providing support on behalf of the U.S.
The project aims to develop new crops for the production and [...]
WW II Guayule Rubber Project topic of L.A. presentation »
If you live in the Los Angeles area and want to learn more about guayule’s history in WWII as a source of natural rubber, attend this October 18 event. Frank Akira Kageyama will speak about the Guayule Rubber Project at Manzanar, one of ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisioned during World [...]
Guayule researcher honored »
The Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC), an international, nonprofit educational and scientific organization, held its 20th annual conference this month on September 7-11 in College Station, Texas.
During the closing banquet and awards ceremony, Katrina Cornish, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research & Development at Yulex Corporation was honored with the AAIC’s 2008 [...]
Yuma, Arizona names Guayule its Crop of the Week »
Kurt Nolte, an agriculture agent and Yuma County Cooperative Extension director, picked guayule to spotlight in the Yuma Sun as his Crop of the Week. He writes:
“Clean new technologies make it possible to extract natural rubber, latex, ethanol, non-toxic adhesives and other specialty chemicals from guayule….
Yulex Corp. has been positioning Arizona as the epicenter of a [...]
