Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Seika have successfully developed the world’s first EBT latex based on Mitsui Chemicals’ EPT (ethylene-propylene rubber) and EBT (ethylene butene diene). In this collaboration, Mitsui Chemicals’ synthetic rubber technology was combined with Sumitomo Seika’s latexification technology. Sample work has already started for market exploration. Mitsui Chemicals expects EBT latex to have a wide range of applications,…