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The main occupation is agriculture, especially the cash crop, rubber. When the latex price crashed, many farmers switched to vanilla. Apart from rubber, other major crops include coriander, ginger and tapioca. It is 2 km away from Mundakayam. St. Paul's church is in the village. Four decades prior, it was a forest area. (Kaipuzha)
The Rubber Board is a statutory organization of constituted under Section (4) of the Rubber Act, 1947 and functions under the administrative control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. The Board’s headquarters is located at Kottayam in Kerala.
These mainly include the publishing and processing of rubber or latex, and manufacturing of rubber-based products. Confined mostly to the Vaikom area of the district is an industry of coir processing and making coir products. [citation needed] Consisting of more than twenty cooperatives, it employs around 20,000 people.
Thai Rubber Latex Group is a manufacturer and exporter of latex concentrate, disposable rubber glove, extruded rubber thread, talcum coated rubber thread, ...
The major commercial source of natural rubber latex is the Amazonian rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), [1] a member of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. Once native to Brazil, the species is now pan-tropical. This species is preferred because it grows well under cultivation.
Foam rubber was first made in 1929, by E. A. Murphy [2] and Eric Owen, two research chemists at Dunlop Rubber, who used whipped latex. In 1937, isocyanate-based materials were first used to make foam rubber. After World War II, styrene-butadiene rubber replaced many natural types of foam. Foam rubber has been used commercially for a wide range ...
Rubber tapping is the process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree. The latex is harvested by slicing a groove into the bark of the tree at a depth of one-quarter inch (6.4 mm) with a hooked knife and peeling back the bark. Trees must be approximately six years old and six inches (150 mm) in diameter in order to be tapped for latex.
To create foam latex, a liquid latex base is mixed with various additives and whipped into a foam, then poured or injected into a mold and baked in an oven to cure.The main components of foam latex are the latex base, a foaming agent (to help it whip into a froth), a gelling agent (to convert the liquid foam into a gel), and a curing agent (to turn the gelled foam latex into a solid when baked).