Transport Ministry launches project to support use of para rubber in road safety

 

   

SATUN (NNT) - The Ministry of Transport has kicked off a project to support the use of para rubber to promote road safety in Satun, which is serving as a pilot province. Thanks to the project, the price of para rubber has increased to around 60 baht per kilogram.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, together with the Transport Minister, Saksayam Chidchob, and the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mananya Thaiset, attended the launch of the project in La-ngu district, Satun province. Installation of the project began at the 102nd kilometer stone through to the 150th kilometer stone on Highway No. 404.

 

Mr. Anutin said the project is part of the Thai First policy, as it has been created by Thai people. as a safety measure. Initially, the project will help rubber planters generate some 30 billion baht.

 

Mr. Saksayam said cabinet ministers approved a 2.7-billion-baht budget to implement the project. Once there is clarity in funding and rubber usage each year, the Department of Highways and the Department of Rural Roads will use para rubber to make RFBs and rubber guide posts. The project has helped stabilize the price of para rubber. Recently, the price increased to 61 baht a kilogram.

 

The government chose Satun as the pilot province because the production facility is located here. The machinery and equipment were first developed in the country by the Department of Highways, the Department of Rural Roads and academics of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) as well as the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR). Training sessions are being organized for rubber producers and communities in different provinces.

 

The Cooperative Promotion Department, under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, is ready to support cooperative groups that have the potential to become rubber fender producers. They can purchase the machinery and equipment at low interest rates offered by the government.

 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will help oversee the rubber fender production in different regions of the country, to meet the demands of the Department of Highways and the Department of Rural Roads. The ministry will ensure that the production capacity of each cooperative group matches the number of roads in each region.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2020-09-07

 

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I saw the news article last week, showing the freely revolving rubber wheels installed along the side of the road.

I know this is radical, but perhaps increase the quality of driving instead?

 

However, this new learning amazes me:

Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Increased use of rubber in Thai roads has been ongoing for several years in response to rubber growers who were coup supporters looking to junta chief Prayut to raise the demand for rubber.

1 hour ago, Srikcir said:

Increased use of rubber in Thai roads has been ongoing for several years

5 hours ago, webfact said:

the Department of Highways and the Department of Rural Roads will use para rubber to make RFBs and rubber guide posts

This seems to be different, though I have no idea what an RFB is, this seems to be use of rubber in the stuff beside the road. Up to now they've been using it in the road surfacing as it's supposed to make for better road surfaces. Though most countries using rubberised asphalt are using rubber waste, i.e. ground up old tyres, rather than raw latex.

 

When I saw the words para rubber, I wondered if that was the same as para military, para medic, parachute. Now I know it's not para, it's pará rubber, the common or garden rubber tree.

 

Why confuse stupid people even more than they are. Just call it what it is. Rubber.

As written above, it would make much more sense to use recycled rubber from old tyres instead of wasting the nice new rubber freshly produced. This is just a waste of natural resources.

The drivers are already deaf dumb and blind get some rubber cushions on the road for some pickup pinball wizardry twang ????

9 hours ago, Carlos Primeros said:

As written above, it would make much more sense to use recycled rubber from old tyres instead of wasting the nice new rubber freshly produced. This is just a waste of natural resources.

Thailand cannot sell their nice new rubber, that's why they were in the mire, hence this new brain-wave to use it domestically.

10 hours ago, Carlos Primeros said:

As written above, it would make much more sense to use recycled rubber from old tyres instead of wasting the nice new rubber freshly produced. This is just a waste of natural resources.

It would be a good idea to try incorporating the recycled rubber and the new rubber.

Everyone's a winner.

18 hours ago, webfact said:

use para rubber to make RFBs

I find it aggravating that writers use acronyms without an explanatory sentence assuming that the reader is conversant with the millions upon millions of acronyms in use! Wikipedia lists the following possibilities however none of these fit in with the context of the story!

 

• Radio Free Brooklyn, a community freeform Internet radio station in Brooklyn, NY
• Really Free Band, a British Christian rock band
• Reichenbachfall Funicular, in the Swiss canton of Berne
• RFB protocol, a simple "remote framebuffer" protocol for remote access to graphical user interfaces
• Rhein-Flugzeugbau, a German aircraft company
• "Room, Food, and Beverage", see Comps (casino)
• Roter Frontkämpferbund ("Red Front Fighters' League"), a paramilitary organization of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic
• Kel-Tec RFB, a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle
• República Federativa do Brasil
• Request For Bid, a business process to request pricing on a specific product from vendors. See Call For Bids