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  2. Rubber tapping - Wikipedia

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    Rubber tapping in Indonesia, 1951. Rubber tapping is the process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree. The latex is harvested by slicing a groove into the bark of the tree at a depth of one-quarter inch (6.4 mm) with a hooked knife and peeling back the bark. Trees must be approximately six years old and six inches (150 mm) in diameter ...

  3. Henry Nicholas Ridley - Wikipedia

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    In 1895, he discovered a means of tapping which did not seriously damage the rubber trees. [7] Ridley was also largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry on the Malay Peninsula, [10] where he resided for twenty years.

  4. Orang Kanaq - Wikipedia

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    In the past, the Orang Kanaq were slave workers tapping trees in rubber plantations. [6] The government has repeatedly tried to attract Kanaq people, like other Orang Asli tribes, to produce plantation crops. At first, a small rubber plantation was created with an area of 3.02 hectares, in which each family received four rows of trees.

  5. Natural rubber - Wikipedia

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    Rubber tapping normally takes place early in the morning, when the internal pressure of the tree is highest. A good tapper can tap a tree every 20 seconds on a standard half-spiral system, and a common daily "task" size is between 450 and 650 trees.

  6. History of Kuala Lumpur - Wikipedia

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    Rubber tapping in Malaya, circa 1910 Kuala Lumpur grew from a small settlement to become Malaysia's biggest city in the 20th century. Kuala Lumpur was only 0.65 km 2 in 1895, but it expanded to 20 km 2 in 1903, and by the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km 2 , and then after independence to 243 km 2 in 1974 as a ...

  7. Malaysian Rubber Board - Wikipedia

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    The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB; Malay: Lembaga Getah Malaysia) is the custodian of the rubber industry in Malaysia. Established on 1 January 1998, it has under its fold three agencies ( RRIM , MRRDB and MRELB), which are now merged into one.

  8. Lanoh people - Wikipedia

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    The majority of Lanoh live in the jungle as hunter-gatherer, but other Lanoh reside in urban areas where they are engaged in employment, largely on tapping rubber [3] and oil palm estates. [4] During the British Malaya , the Lanoh people were also regularly employed by British administrative officers as jungle rangers and porters, which suits ...

  9. Gutta-percha - Wikipedia

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    Palaquium gutta. Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae, which is primarily used to create a high-quality latex of the same name. The material is rigid, naturally biologically inert, resilient, electrically nonconductive, and thermoplastic, most commonly sourced from Palaquium gutta; it is a polymer of isoprene which forms a rubber-like elastomer.