Nitrile Rubber is a synthetic rubber produced by polymerization of acrylonitrile with butadiene. Nitrile synthetic rubber is also known as NBR, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, acrylonitrile rubber, nitrile-butadiene rubber, and NR. This type of synthetic rubber is widely used in a number of applications. In fact, industrial nitrile rubber is one of the very sought after variety of synthetic rubber by most of the manufaturing units. In the year 2005, worldwide consumption of NBR had reached almost 368,000 metric tons annually and the global market for nitrile butadiene rubber has been forecast to exceed 645 thousand tons by the year 2017.