Chinese rubber acid kept rising in 2019
On March 4, CRIA's Rubber Chem Commission released that its 47 member companies produced 1,172,000 tons of rubber acid in 2018, yearly increasing 2.8%.
Amongst, there were 357,000 tons of rubber accelerator produced in 2018, yearly increasing 7.2%. The commission said that with more and more rubber chem companies satisfied with national environment-protection standard, rubber accelerator production was further released in 2018.
There were 365000 tons of Rubber antioxidant produced in 2018, slightly declining 1.1%. Amongst, 6PPD and TMQ were produced 317,000 tons in all, taking 86.7% of total rubber antioxidant production, yearly increasing 3.7% compared to the same period of 2017.
Processing aid production yearly increased 3.1% to 231,000 tons; vulcanizer and peroxide were produced 1,2000 tons, within 93000 tons of insoluble sulfur yearly up 27.6%; others included 99000 tons of special adjuvant and 30000 tons of polymer bound pre-dispered rubber chemicals.
The commission predicted that there would be 1,220,000 tons of rubber acid production in 2019, yearly rasing 4%.
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