Rubber manufacturer Michelin claims to have avoided millions of tons of carbon emissions and saved thousands of hectares of primary forest in a sustainable rubber plantation project in Indonesia.

Half of the world's forests were destroyed during the 20th century, with three regions mainly affected: South America, West ...

Porsche has announced that it will be partnering with Michelin and investing $1.1 million to improve rubber farming sustainability in Sumatra, Indonesia. The project will run into 2024.

Michelin will invest over $60 million to construct a demonstration plant for a bio-sourced, non-toxic molecule—a molecule ...

PARIS (Feb. 16, 2010)—Group Michelin has halted natural rubber harvesting at its Mato Grosso, Brazil, plantation and sold the land to a local company that plans to shift the property to multi-crop ...

They then carried out intensive qualitative content analysis, studying press releases and media coverage about Michelin’s plantation project. The “Sustainable Natural Rubber Policy” of the French ...

In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit with the South American Leaf Blight fungus, the same fungus that destroyed Henry Ford’s dreams of industrializing ...

There are also human rights abuses: Indigenous people have been forced from their lands in Laos, Burma and Cambodia to build new rubber plantations. And there have been problems with child labor. Now, ...

Rubber plantations from Indonesia to Ivory Coast will tap a global crop this year that will create the biggest glut since at least 2004, cutting costs for Bridgestone Corp., Michelin & Cie.

The cruelty inflicted on villagers in rubber plantations established by French firm Michelin has been commemorated in a village recreated in Binh Duong Province. The village was recreated inside a ...

Jessie convinces Victor to take on a larger role in the Michelin rubber plantations in Indochine. Jessie is hoping that this will promote Victor within the company and make it easier to hide her ...