Types of Rubber and Benefits

Currently used in industrial rubber comprises natural rubber and synthetic rubber. Use of synthetic rubber in number is higher than natural rubber. Synthetic rubber has advantages such as resistance to various chemicals and their prices tend to remain stable. In terms of procurement, synthetic rubber rarely have difficulty sending or supply of goods.


A. DIFFERENCES WITH NATURAL RUBBER SYNTHETIC RUBBERAlthough the present amount of natural rubber production and consumption is far below the synthetic rubber or artificial rubber factory, but in fact the natural rubber can not be replaced by synthetic rubber. However, the advantages of natural rubber is difficult matched by synthetic rubber.As for the advantages possessed of natural rubber than synthetic rubber is■ have the elastic or resilient perfect,■ have a good plasticity so that its processing easier,■ have a high wear power,■ not easy to heat (low heat build up), and■ have a high resistance to cracking (groove crocking resistance).
However, synthetic rubber has advantages such as resistance to various chemicals and the price is likely to be maintained in order to remain stable. If a party wants a certain amount of synthetic rubber in the usual transmission or supply of goods is seldom difficult. Things like this can hardly be expected from natural rubber. Price and supply of natural rubber is always changing, sometimes even turbulent. Prices could fall dramatically to the detriment of the market and worried about their producers.Sometimes for some reason like keluamya government regulations on producing countries that want a certain condition of the rubber industry in the country, it will affect the international market. A political wisdom whether it be from employers or government memilikj considerable influence on the business of natural rubber are widely.Although it has some drawbacks in light of the chemical or its business, but according to some experts, natural rubber still has a good market share. Some specific industries still have a large dependence on the supply of natural rubber, for example, the tire industry is the largest user of natural rubber.Several types of tires such as radial tires, although its production is mixed with synthetic rubber, but the amount of natural rubber that is used remains large, which is twice that of natural rubber components for the manufacture of nonradial tires. The types of tires are less good when synthetic rubber material which contains more. The portion of natural rubber needed for large-sized tires are much bigger. In fact, almost all raw materials aircraft tires are made from natural rubber.Today the total production of natural rubber from synthetic rubber is 1: 2. Although the amount of natural rubber production is lower, even just half of the production of synthetic rubber, but the actual amount of production and consumption of both types of rubber are almost the same.