Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI), a privately owned specialty tire manufacturer, recently hosted nine journalists from across the world to spend a week in Sri Lanka, not only to learn about ...

The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) which is principally used to obtain NR, originally grew in the wilderness in the Amazon basin of South America. You may have heard that it was initially introduced ...

A laborer works at a rubber plantation in Eheliyagoda, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2025. (Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/Xinhua) A laborer cuts a rubber tree to collect rubber latex at a rubber plantation in ...

Rubber – Sri Lanka’s best answer to global warming. By Dr L M K Tillekeratne, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Chemistry, Sri Jayawardhanapura University. It is ... Hence, it is accepted that the “Rubber Tree ...

The leading role played by Sri Lanka, Ceylon then, in the long journey of the domestication of the rubber tree from its wild Amazonian ancestors in 1876 is still a fascinating story to tell, and ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) recently held two events with natural rubber farming communities, both held under GRI's Green X Circle initiative, ...

Identified by the vigilant eyes of the Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka (RRISL), the lack of prompt action and viable solutions threatens to plunge our rubber cultivation into the abyss.

767. Sri Lanka’s rubber sector achieved USD 1 billion in revenue in 2024 and the industry is planning to increase exports to USD 2 billion by 2030 said newly elected Chairman of Sri Lanka Association ...