Stern Rubber Company uses many different synthetic rubbers for molding and rubber extrusion.
Synthetic rubber origins begin back in 1879 that one form of synthetic rubber was created by a Frenchman Gustave Bouchardat. He created a polymer of isoprene in his laboratory. As tires on automobiles increased the demand for rubber, so in 1909 a team of German scientists lead by Fritz Hofmann also created the first true synthetic rubber which polymerized methyl isoprene. In 1910 Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev worked with rubber plymer Synthisized from butadine. This Russian created a form of synthetic rubber was the basis of the first Large scale commercial production before World War 1.
In the twenties, Rubber prices increased as a result of political problems around the world.