Companies that join the Fair Rubber Association pay an annual membership fee based on company sales and a fair trade premium per kilogram of rubber purchased. Since the summer of 2012, approximately 2,960 tons of Dry Rubber Content (DRC) have been traded that meet the criteria for Fair Trade rubber. Over the past 10 years, […]
1.5 million euros in fair trade premium for farmers and tappers Read More »
At the last General Meeting of the Fair Rubber Association at the end of April 2022, members confirmed Chairman David Löw Beer in office for another two years. Felix Jahn, CSR officer at bicycle tire manufacturer Schwalbe, was also elected as a new member of the board. He has also taken over the position of
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Online retailer Amazon has recognized Fair Rubber as a trusted seal for sustainable rubber: Customers can now find products with the Fair Rubber logo more easily through Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly program on the online marketplace. It is now also possible to search for Fair Rubber items in individual product categories. Alternatively, shoppers can get
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Thailand is the largest rubber producer in the world. Fair Rubber e.V. has two smaller supplier partners there, followed by a third in the Surat Thani region at the beginning of 2022. In May, for the first time after the withdrawal of the Corona restrictions, a delegation of the Fair Rubber Association traveled to the
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The first time we were asked whether we could help source a yoga mat made with Fairly Traded natural rubber was in October 2009 – the Fair Rubber Association did not even exist then. The request was to help establish a supply chain for a yoga mat containing some natural rubber, but the challenge was
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It hurts, when one of our longest standing supplier partners loses a key Fair Trade customer – but that’s business. We worked hard set up a contact to a new Fair Trade buyer to help fill the gap. It really hurt, when, just as that new member (and potentially new buyer) asked the supplier partner
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Ever so often we get an excited inquiry: Have we heard about rubber being produced from dandelions? Russian dandelions (or, to be more precise: Kazakh dandelions – Taraxacum koksaghyz)? Our answer always is the same: To begin with, this is an old hat. Thomas Edison, a great friend of Henry Ford’s, tried out this –
Blowing in the wind: Dandelions –The Rubber of the Future? Read More »
Since June 2021 Stefan Hörmann is Chief Operations Officer of the Fair Rubber Association and thus succeeds Martin Kunz. Stefan holds a master’s degree in political and administrative science. He is also deputy director of the environmental foundation Global Nature Fund (GNF). He is in charge of the Bonn office of GNF and is unit
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Mein erster Versuch, einen Erzeuger von Naturkautschuk zu finden, der willenswar, ein paar 100 kg Naturkautschuk unter ‚Fair Trade’ Bedingungen für dieFußbälle, die ich damals verkauft habe, zu liefern, liegt 15 Jahre zurück. Am Endedes Jahres 2020 bezogen die Mitglieder/Lizenznehmer des Fair Rubber e.V. (deraus meinen ersten Bemühungen entstanden war), 270 Tonnen DRC (Dry RubberContent
Abschied – ein paar persönliche Gedanken Read More »
2018 hat der Fair Rubber e.V. erstmals ein eigenständiges Set an Kriterien fürNaturkautschuk veröffentlich. Nachdem diese Standards drei Jahre lang in Auditsvon einer unabhängigen Auditfirma in der Praxis angewandt wurden, und zwarin allen Ländern, in denen der Fair Rubber e.V. Lieferantenpartner hat, war einekleine Revision notwendig: Die eigentlichen Kriterien und Parameter haben sichbewährt, was überarbeitet
Kriterien für Fair gehandelten Naturkautschuk aktualisiert Read More »