Overview of Plastic Additives
Plastic additives are compounds that must be added during the process of polymers (synthetic resins) to improve their processing performance or to enhance the resin’s own properties.
Plastic additives play a particularly important role in plastic processing. Common additives include plasticizers, heat stabilizers, antioxidants, light stabilizers, flame retardants, foaming agents, anti-static agents, colorants, optical brighteners, fillers, coupling agents, lubricants, release agents, nucleating agents, etc.
The application of plastic additives in China is constantly expanding, and the variety of products has increased significantly. The plastic additive industry has become an important industry with a relatively complete range of categories and a wide variety of products. It has made significant progress in terms of technical level, product structure, production scale, and the quality of scientific and technological personnel, basically meeting the downstream industry’s demand for plastic additive products. China’s export advantage is gradually taking shape.
| Function | Category |
| Improve processing performance | Lubricants, release agents, processing aids, thixotropic agents, plasticizers, PVC stabilizers |
| Improve mechanical properties | Plasticizer, reinforcing filler, nucleating agent, impact modifier |
| Improve optical properties | Pigments, dyes, nucleating agents, optical brightener |
| Improve aging resistance | Antioxidant, light stabilizer, UV absorber, antiseptic |
| Improve surface properties | Antistatic agent, slip agent, anti-block agent, anti-fog agent |
| Reduce cost | Diluents, solubilizers, fillers |
| Improve other performance | Foaming agent, flame retardant, chemical crosslinking agent, coupling agent |
At present, the core driving force of China’s plastic market is the surge in demand in the fields of new energy vehicles (lightweight materials), electronics and appliances (high-precision components), biodegradable packaging and so on. Meanwhile, the plastic restrictions and the prohibition policies of toxic additives (such as lead containing stabilizers) in various countries promote the research and development of green alternatives.
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Post time: May-20-2025