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 …
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 …
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 – …
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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 …