How I became a “guayulero” »
A native of France, Dominic Michelin is earning his master’s degree in translation from the University of Paris. He chose to focus on guayule for his research paper. He shares his guayule story below in our first of several planned guest posts.
I could almost say my “affair” with guayule started unexpectedly on a sunny day [...]
Yulex CEO Featured Speaker at Bio-Based Conference »
Jeff Martin, CEO of Yulex Corp., addressed 250 executives and researchers working to advance the commercialization of bio-based chemicals at the Next Generation Bio-Based Chemicals Conference in San Diego Feb. 9.
In the same way that petroleum and natural gas provided the basis for an enormous petrochemicals industry beginning over 50 years ago, living plant-based materials [...]
Guayule: Then & Now »
In a Salinas, Calif. newspaper we recently came across a great column chronicling the guayule industry in that region before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
With trade from Southeast Asia cut off and rubber essential to the U.S. war effort, the guayule rubber produced in Salinas became a national security issue overnight.
A key difference between guayule [...]
Guayule has roots in history »
We recently came across historic photos from the early 1900’s when the first domestic enterprise, the Intercontinental Rubber Company, produced guayule rubber from plants grown in California. During WWII when America’s supply of natural rubber is cut off by the Japanese, the U.S. government purchased IRC to scale up a U.S. rubber industry.
