The development of rubber additives in my country is stable and improving, with downstream applications driving rising demand

Rubber additives are the general name for chemical products added during rubber processing and are important raw materials in the rubber industry. Rubber additives can effectively improve the elasticity, toughness, oxidation resistance, aging resistance and other properties of rubber products, while improving the rubber processing technology and adjusting the chemical structure of rubber products. They are widely used in automobile tires, latex, hoses, tapes, rubber shoes, In rubber products such as rubber sheets, wires and cables.

Rubber additives can be divided into two categories: general rubber additives and special rubber additives, including operating system additives such as dispersants, release agents, and anti-scorch agents; protective system additives such as flame retardants and anti-aging agents; promotion Vulcanization system additives such as agents, activators, vulcanizing agents; adhesive system additives such as adhesives, cobalt salt adhesion accelerators; fillers, carbon black and other reinforcing filling system additives; defoaming agents, aromatics, colorants and other rubber additives.

According to the “China Rubber Additives Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report 2023-2028” released by the Industrial Research Center, From the perspective of rubber additive production structure, antioxidants, accelerators, and processing aids are the main rubber additive products produced in my country, accounting for 30.4%, 25.8%, and 21.5% of my country’s annual rubber additive production respectively. From the perspective of rubber additives consumption structure, latex, shoemaking, automobile tires, industrial supplies, wires and cables are the main application fields of rubber additives in my country. Among them, automobile tires are the largest consumer area of ​​rubber additives in my country, accounting for 64.7% of the total consumption of rubber additives in my country.

In recent years, my country’s rubber additives industry has developed steadily and steadily, with output increasing year by year. my country’s rubber additive output was 1.183 million tons in 2018 and 1.416 million tons in 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of 4.6%. my country has become the largest country in the production of rubber additives, and its rubber additive production capacity accounts for about 76.3% of the world’s total rubber additive production capacity.

From the perspective of the downstream application market of rubber additives, my country’s rubber additives have broad development prospects. On the one hand, in recent years, the tire and other rubber industries in developed countries have been gradually shifting to developing countries, mainly in Asia, and my country’s rubber additives industry has ushered in historic development opportunities. On the other hand, automobile tires are the most important application field of rubber additives. Under the background of “dual carbon”, my country’s new energy vehicle industry has developed rapidly, and the sales of new energy vehicles have increased rapidly, providing a good development environment for the tire industry and driving my country’s The market demand for rubber additives is rising rapidly.

Industrial analysts said that overall, although my country is a major producer of rubber additives, the number of manufacturing companies is large and the market is highly concentrated. The industry generally has problems such as small scale enterprises, single products and serious homogeneity. Sennics Chemical, Kemai Chemical, Shandong Shangshun Chemical, Shandong Yanggu Huatai Chemical, etc. are the main manufacturers of rubber additives in my country. In the future, as the Chinese government’s supply-side reform deepens, environmental protection supervision continues to strengthen, and the potential of the rubber additives market continues to be released, some companies with backward production capacity, serious pollution, and low-end products will gradually withdraw from the rubber additives market.