Guayule Blog

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 [...]

A nurse in England who lost her job because of her latex allergy just received a six-figure payment from her former employee. A recent article in UK’s Yorkshire Post says Jacqueline Foxton developed the allergy in 2004, one year after she begun employment with Wakefield West Primary Care Trust.
The hospital did not have a latex policy in place [...]

Raw materials are causing a ripple effect that starts with rubber, chemical suppliers is the headline from a recent article in Rubber & Plastics most recent issue. Here’s an excerpt:
“Recent rubber price increases generally have stuck because customers really don’t have any other choices, said Bill Hyde, director of C4 olefins and elastomers for Houston-based Chemical [...]

CleanTechnica, a blog about the latest trends in Clean Tech from renewable energy sources to less toxic electronics, posted the Top 5 Plants that Inspire New Technology today and guayule made the cut. It says guayule is one of the five plants with surprising super powers and is providing a boost to technological innovation with a [...]