Para-rubber to be used to pave roads: Premier

[webfact]

Para-rubber to be used to pave roads: Premier

The Nayion

 

 

Four hundred roads across the country are to be paved using 20,000 tonnes of para-rubber this year and in 2020, as part of the Cabinet-approved solution to tackle the falling rubber price, according to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

In addition to the rubber-mixed paving, which will be done by Army, other state agencies have also been instructed to promote the domestic use of para-rubber products such as using durable rubber foam pillows and mattresses for military camps and prisons or applying the rubber mixture to repair or maintain sport arenas, the premier said.

 

The policy to boost para-rubber processing could also see more factories processing latex into para-rubber sheets and adding value to products, he added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30372704

 

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[PatOngo]

 

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

Para-rubber to be used to pave roads: Premier

Good idea, when a mocy hits the road it will just bounce back up and keep going!

[IvorBiggun2]

Copying other countries?

 

Quote

 

Motorists in Coventry will soon be driving on roads made from old tyres.

The city council will be the first in England to trail Tarmac's revolutionary surface, which is a new asphalt consisting of shredded car tyres that were once fitted to a Briton's vehicle.

As well as having environmental benefits, rubberised roads have a proven track record for reducing traffic noise.

Re-purposing old rubber to manufacture roads could provide a use for the 40million waste tyres produced every year in the UK.

UK firm Tarmac shreds the old rubber down into granules and then adds it to a mix that can be laid to create a road surface.

The technology is already being used across the US.

 

 

[canopus1969]

In addition to the rubber-mixed paving, which will be done by Army

 

Certainly do not want any old rif-raf doing this specialist job  ????

[jaiyen]

Will soon have OTOP condoms !  Only B10 each !

[Bluespunk]

Didn’t they try this five years ago?

 

https://amp.ft.com/content/cfe67f78-1885-11e4-933e-00144feabdc0

 

Doesn't seem to have been successful in maintaining rubber prices then, any reason it will now?

 

 

Edited July 10, 2019 by Bluespunk

[Lamkyong]

whilst proven a technology with crushed tyres   not sure about para rubber

i am surprised at the doubtful comments /posts  i would think any improvements in our local roads would be welcome  a more detailed mention on how they intend to utilize this para medium would give a better understanding of the intended process

[Speedo1968]

As stated by the Nation newspaper in the above headline

Quote - "In addition to the rubber-mixed paving, which will be done by Army, other state agencies have also been instructed to promote the domestic use of para-rubber products such as using durable rubber foam pillows and mattresses for military camps and prisons"

 

Must be my understanding of the English language or am I just getting senile - since when have military camps and prisons come within the 'domestic' use.   Or do they mean that the rubber foam ( read foam rubber ) pillows and mattresses are in the military camps and prisons and are classed as 'domestic items' rather than military hardware ?

 

I also like the terminology "which will be done by Army, other state agencies" so now the Army is a state agency ?   Yes, guess it's my understanding of English.

[from the home of CC]

2 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

Copying other countries?

 

 

so what's your point? does that mean it shouldn't be used here?

[Lupatria]

So the gold paved roads for Thailand are off the screen?

[ChouDoufu]

is this pararubber mix to replace the current use of shredded tires?  what then happens to the used tires no longer needed for road paving?  sent to landfills or dumped in the ocean?

 

surely they could find some value-added manufactured product to export, rather than concentrating on domestic use or just exporting raw rubber.

[Speedo1968]

They used to be used for the classic Thai rubbish bin

 

[Eric Loh]

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t they try this five years ago?

 

https://amp.ft.com/content/cfe67f78-1885-11e4-933e-00144feabdc0

 

Doesn't seem to have been successful in maintaining rubber prices then, any reason it will now?

 

 

Wouldn't move the dial a bit in rubber price considering 20,000 tons out of 4.56 million tons of latex produced a year. Less than 1% of the total mix. Rather the government should negotiate with China to buy more rubber products. China used to buy more in the past but have switch to Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The government can also provide better incentives for more tire manufacturers to have their plants here. Many thing the government can do. Rubber for roads is miniscule effort to lift prices. 

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn’t they try this five years ago?

Back To The Past!

At least in the beginning of 2015 the challenge for Thailand rubber growers was that world demand for rubber significantly decreased while an oversupply continued to be produced. This situation not only depressed international rubber prices but also domestic prices with high unused stockpiles.

 

The Prayut government tried at least four remedies to improve rubber farmer income:

• subsidies to lower production costs,
• government purchase of rubber at above global market prices (aka rubber buffer stock program),
• increase of domestic consumption to lower overall supplies otherwise exported, and
• collaboration with the International Tripartite Rubber Council (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia) to restrict rubber exports.

From 2015-2018 (I have links for each upon request, trying to reduce length of comment):

• Government economic ministers ordered the Highways Depart and the Department of Rural Roads to use 30,000 tons of rubber in road construction and maintenance  Thai PBS 2015-02-26
• Government advised by the Democrat Party to stop releasing rubber from its buffer stockpile [for export] and instruct government agencies to sue more rubber such as in road construction to stabilize rubber prices on a long-term basis through "management of market mechanism." Thai PBS 2017-06-29
• The Network of Southern Rubber Growers wants State agencies to use about 100,000 tons of rubber from local production to reduce local supply. The Nation 2017-10
• The Thai Rubber Joint Venture Co Ltd established in 2017 to pay rubber prices that shore up the rubber prices in the market failed. The Nation 2017-11-14
• Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Grisada Boonrach proposed rubber-based bedding be manufactured for state schools and hospitals. The Nation 2018-11-15
• The Acting Governor of the Rubber Authority of Thailand creates a 29-year rubber strategy to decrease the size of rubber plantations, increase the range of rubber products and domestic rubber consumption and stimulate rubber exports. NNT 2019-04-17

What does Thailand have now?

• From 2017-2019 the number of rubber growers increased from 962,765 to 993,500! (The Nation 2019-06-11).
• With the current expected baht appreciation business sectors (including producers of rubber products, seafood, meat and accessories) that rely on export income and local use materials will see a projected gross profit drop of 0.3-3.2%! (The nation 2019-06-14)

Obviously, the Prayut government found no sustaining solutions to improve rubber farmer incomes. Yet persists with repeating failed policies.

 

[wombat]

On 7/10/2019 at 1:45 PM, jaiyen said:

Will soon have OTOP condoms !  Only B10 each !

I'm sure I read all our recycled chewing gum from oz gets sent to America already for that