Main topics covered in this issue:

• IRRDB Gold Medal
  
• Chairman's introduction to Board Meeting
  
• New Chairman and Vice Chairman
  
• New Board Members
  
• Venues for next Annual Meetings
  
• Indonesian Rubber Conference/IRRDB Symposium
  
• Rubber plantation development policy in Indonesia
  
• Smallholder rubber in Thailand
  
• Overall position of natural and synthetic
  
• Tyre manufacturers call for enhanced quality
  
• Quality and consistency
  
• Goodyear purchases
  
• Green issues
  
• Other papers
  
• Seismic isolation
  
• Diseases and plant breeding
  
• Restoration of degraded and marginal ecosystems
  
• Engineering information data sheet
  
• Liaison Officers
  
• Production Costs in China
  
• Natural Rubber (George and Kuruvilla Jacob)
  
• Sir Harry Melville
  
• Profound Observation on Natural Rubber
  
• IRSG Forum
  
• Nigerian Rubber Industry
  
• Land of Many Trees
  
• Bangladesh Exports Natural Rubber
  
• Latex Protein Allergy
  
• Allergy Research
  
• Skin Reactions to Rubbers
  
• European Commission Examines Latex Allergy
  
• Latex and You
  
• Perceptions of Plantations
  
• UNCTAD / IRSG Forum
  
• E-Commerce
  
• End of Life Tyres
  
• Global Warming
  
• Natural Rubber and Global Warming
  
• Emission Targets
  
• Carbon Taxes
  
• Rubber / Timber / What else?
  
• Natural rubber Productivity
  
• End of Life Cycle
  
• MIRS (Pirelli's Modular Integrated Robotised System)
  
• Future Challenges in Tyre Testing and Retreading
  
• Tyre Safety
  
• Joint Industry Project on Modelling Rubbers
  
• Tyre Plant Closures in Europe
  
• Freedonia Forecast
  
• End Notes
  
• Dr Asril Darussamin