Know Your Rubber Plant

Rubber plantation is an annual plant a tree trunk straight. First rubber tree grows only in Brazil, South America, but after the experiment many times by Henry Wickham, a tree was successfully developed in Southeast Asia, where the plant is now developed so much until now Asia is a source of natural rubber. In Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore began to try the rubber plant cultivated in 1876. Indonesia's first rubber plant grown in the Botanical Garden. Indonesia used to rule the world rubber production, but currently the position of Indonesia were urged by the two neighboring countries Malaysia and Thailand. More than half of the rubber used today is synthetic, but several million tons of natural rubber are still produced every year, and still is an important material for several industries including automotive and military. 


Botanical classification of rubber plants are as follows:

• Division: Spermatophyta  
• Sub Division: Angiospermae  
• Class: Dicotyledonae 
•  Family: Euphorbiaceae  
• Genus: Hevea 
•  Species: Hevea brasiliensis 

Plantations of rubber trees are grown in various regions in Indonesia. Rubber is a product of the coagulation of rubber latex (latex). Normal rubber trees are tapped in the fifth. Products from clotting further processed to produce latex rubber sheet (sheet), blocks (boxes), or crumb rubber (crumb rubber) which is an industrial raw material rubber. Rubber exports from Indonesia in various forms, namely in the form of industrial raw materials (sheet, crumb rubber, SIR) and its derivative products such as tires, components, and so forth. 

The results of commonly used rubber or processed into products such as: RSS I, II RSS, RSS III, Crumb Rubber, Lump, and Latex. The main result is the latex from rubber trees that can be sold or traded in the form of fresh latex, slab / coagulation, smoke or sit / sit wind. Further products will be used as a raw material mill Crumb Rubber / Rubber Crumb, who produce a variety of raw materials for downstream industries such as tires, balls, shoes, rubber gloves, swimsuit, rubber bands, rubber toys, and other downstream products.