The crop from rubber plantations are in the form of field latex and field coagulum. These are suitably processed into several marketable forms so that these can be used in rubber product manufacture. Major marketable form of natural rubber are - Ribbed Smoked Sheet (RSS)
- Block rubber (TSR)
- Crepe rubbers
- Pale Latex Crepe (PLC)
- Estate Brown Crepe (EBC)
- Skim Crepe
- Preserved Field Latex
- Concentrated Latex
- Centrifuged Latex
- Creamed Latex
Quality combined with cost effectiveness is essential for technical and economic/ market acceptance of any form of processed rubber both within the country and abroad. The Processing and Quality Control Division of the Department of Processing and Product Development involved in the technical, economic, quality control and standardization aspects of rubber processing in the country. |
