The history of synthetic rubber is generally believed to have been the first time that Buchardat turned the isoprene into a rubber-like elastomer in the laboratory in 1879.

In the 1930s, the industrialization of several kinds of rubbers such as butadiene, butyronitrile and chloroprene in emulsion polymerization was realized.

In the 1950s, Zeigler-Natta invented the directionally polymerized stereoregular rubber, and appeared rubber such as ethylene propylene, cis butyl, and isoprene. The emergence of thermoplastic elastomers between 1965 and 1973 is an attempt to successfully design molecular molecules in the rubber field and is a new breakthrough in modern rubber.

Goodyear’s invention of pure sulfur vulcanization, because of sulfur, long time, low performance.
In 1844, the addition of lead carbonate as an inorganic accelerator in Goodyear’s patent opened up an era of inorganic accelerators for half a century. In 1906, aniline accelerators were found to be better than inorganic accelerators, and since then, they have entered the era of organic accelerators.

The promoter M of accelerator D and thiazole was invented in the 1920s, confirming that zinc oxide activates most organic accelerators, which is an epoch-making achievement.
In 1931, Bayer made a sulfenamide accelerator to solve the safety problem of synthetic rubber and furnace black processing.