Bridgestone’s New Feedstock for Natural Rubber: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Guayule

Guayule is a native plant to the Chihuhuan Desert along the U.S./Mexico border and accumulates rubber in the bark layer, making it ideal for tire companies like Bridgestone. Along with co-products like bagasse, resin and hypoallergenic latex, guayule has other advantages to standard Hevea natural rubber. We’ve combined two slide guides into one – a Bridgestone Guayule slide guide with an Ohio State University slide guide on how viable this guayule feedstock is for the bioeconomy.