Statistics rubber consumption

Once again I should acknowledge that I have drawn heavily from the journals European Plastics News, Kunstojfe, Modern Plastics International and Plastics and Rubber Weekly for data on production and consumption statistics. 

Antimonious acid H3Sb03 and its salts are less well characterized but a few meta-antimonites and polyantimonites are known, e.g. NaSb02, NaSb305.H20 and Na2Sb407. The oxide itself finds extensive use as a flame retardant in fabrics, paper, paints, plastics, epoxy resins, adhesives and rubbers. The scale of industrial use can be gauged from the US statistics which indicate an annual consumption of Sb203 of some 10000 tonnes in that country. 

The only statistical reports currently issued by the Chemical and Rubber Division are consumption and end-use patterns of various basic chemicals. These do not appear at any regular interval but when the data are available. To date reports on benzene, toluene, sulfur, and sulfuric acid have been issued. 

International Rubber Study Group, Brettenham House, 5-6, Lancaster Place, Strand, London, Rubber Statistical Bulletin, monthly, 1946-. U. S. and world historical data on production, consumption, and supply of natural and synthetic rubber. 

Rubber Manufacturers Association, 444 Madison Ave., New York, U.S,A. Rubber Statistics, monthly with annual summaries. Production, consumption, and supply of natural and synthetic rubber and shipments of rubber tires and casings. 

Figure 16.3 World rubber production/consumption according to Rubber Statistical Bulletin (April-June 2012 edition).

In the past, considerable industrial interest has been shown in solid carboxylated polymers such as carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubbers (l-9) However industrial interest is now almost exclusively with carboxylated polymers in latex form Furthermore, interest is principally in the latices of carboxylated rubber latices, and of these the carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubber latices are pre-eminent. Statistics recently published for the consumption of synthetic latices of all types in Western Europe over the period 1979-QO indicate that, on a basis of dry polymer, carboxylated styrene-butadiene types make up some QP/o of the total (10). 

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