DOST helps upgrade PH rubber industry

A project by the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) in Zamboanga Sibugay has provided a boost to the Philippine rubber industry, helping one of the province’s two processing plants produce export-quality rubber.

The Philippine Pioneer Rubber Products Corporation (PPRPC) in Zamboanga Sibugay now makes high quality rubber products, thanks to a project called “Optimization and Improvement of Processes in the Production of Technically Specified Rubber (TSR) and Demonstration of the Improved Facilities in Zamboanga Peninsula.”