New Facility Update »
Yulex Corporation’s new production facility, set to open January 2012, is located within the Lone Butte Industrial Park in Chandler, Arizona, and is part of the Gila River Indian Community. Yulex has refurbished and upgraded three existing structures on the site, as opposed to bulldozing and building from scratch, in a conscious effort to make [...]
Distinguished Service: Guayule’s Role in World War II »
During World War II, trading and exchange with Southeast Asia was stifled and many Americans were required to ration items that were in short supply. Rubber was one such item and, in fact, was the first non-food item required to be rationed. According to author and guayule scholar Mark R. Finlay, as early as 1910, [...]
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. Connect with Dominic through his Linkedin profile. I could almost say my “affair” [...]
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 [...]
Guayule – A Promising Crop from the Desert »
Indiana Public Media, the NPR channel in that state, featured guayule on its “Moment in Science” series. The report emphasizes the usefulness of guayule’s rubber content as well as its potential to produce energy from leftover biomass after rubber extraction. Because it’s a desert crop, requiring comparatively little water to produce and the rubber extraction [...]
