The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB; ms, Lembaga Getah Malaysia) is the custodian of the

rubber industry in Malaysia As of 2019, Malaysia is the sixth largest producer and exporter of Natural Rubber (NR), the leader in the production and export of rubber products, the largest consumer of natural rubber and the world's largest rubber gloves producer, with annual ...

. Established on 1 January 1998, it has under its fold three agencies ( RRIM, MRRDB and MRELB), which are now merged into one. The R&D work in

natural rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, a ...

, accomplished by the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, has been used by the Malaysian

industry and other NR producing countries. The objective of MRB is to assist in the development and modernization of the Malaysian rubber industry from cultivation of the

rubber tree ''Hevea brasiliensis'', the Pará rubber tree, ''sharinga'' tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family Euphorbiaceae originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now ...

, the extraction and processing of its raw rubber, the manufacture of rubber products and the marketing of rubber and

rubber products Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and ...

. The Director General of MRB is Dato' Dr Zairossani Mohd Nor.

External links

The Malaysian Rubber Board
Federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia Rubber industry in Malaysia 1998 establishments in Malaysia Government agencies established in 1998 Ministry of Primary Industries (Malaysia) {{Malaysia-org-stub