Commodity elastomers, which account for the bulk of industry sales, are available at relatively low prices from several manufacturers.
Natural rubber is mainly is mainly poly-cis-isoprene. Synthetic rubber is an artificial elastomer.
In 2001 the industry had 10,340 employees.
Most of the major players in the U.S. synthetic rubber industry are large, diversified chemical companies, producing a wide variety of products not limited to elastomers.
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An elastomer, which is also called "a rubber" but most elastomers contain no rubber.
Charles F. Phillips has written: 'Competition in the synthetic rubber industry'
synthetic rubber, synthetic rubber tires
natural rubber is more elastic than synthetic rubber
Synthetic rubber is a man-made material that functions like natural rubber. Synthetic rubber is made with petroleum, which gives it multiple advantages over natural rubber.
From trees. Most 'rubber' today is synthetic, a product of the petro-chemical industry.
NAICS 325212 applies to Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing.
because humans cannot make synthetic rubber exactly the same as natural rubber.