MALAYSIAN RUBBER BOARD

Long O E Poon N K Hassan A H Malaysian Rubber Board... 

The author would like to acknowledge the Malaysian Rubber Board for the financial support of this project. The author also thanks P. J. S. Foot, H. Morgan, S. Cook, A. J. Tinker, C. Hull, R. Davies and K. Lawrence for their supervision, support and assistance in this part of work. 

Advanced Rubber Technology Unit, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM), Malaysian Rubber Board, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia... 

S. Ahmad, in International Rubber Technology and Economic Congress (IRTEC12), Malaysian Rubber Board, One World Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, 2012. 

It gives me great pleasure to thank the Publication Divisions of the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) (formerly Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia), and the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC) for permission to reproduce data and figures from their respective Publication Divisions. The author would like to express his sincere appreciation and thanks to Cambridge University Press for giving permission to reproduce figures and data from their publications. 

M. Fernando, Techniques of Bonding Rubber, Technology Bulletin No 1, Malaysian Rubber Board, Kuala Lumpur, 1999. 

The authors would like to acknowledge the Malaysian Rubber Board and the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia for their contribution in data and latex glove samples. 

J. B. Gomez, Physiology ofEatex (Bubber) Production, MRRDB Monograph No. 8., Malaysian Rubber Research Development Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1983. 

Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board, Malaysia Rubber Developments and other technical literatures. 

The author wishes to thank the Board of the Malaysian Rubber Producers Research Association for permission to publish this chapter, the editor of Natural Rubber Technology, Deutsche Oelfabrik GmbH and Schill Seilacher for information and samples, and Mr P. M. Lewis for constructive criticism. 

The authors record their gratitude to the Board of the Malaysian Rubber Producers Research Association for permission to quote extensively from their literature. 

Natural rubber (NR) is an excellent elastomer with a well-balanced set of properties. For this reason, it is used in a wide range of applications, including very demanding engineering components such as structural bearings. Many applications of rubber, however, require special properties for which NR is deficient. Others require that the rubber be of a different physical form than is normally obtained with conventional NR. Thus, modifications of NR either physically or chemically have been an important subject of research carried out by the Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board. 

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