The application demand for anti-aging agents is growing, and the industry has large room for development

Anti-aging agent is an important polymer material additive, mainly used in the processing and production of polymer materials such as plastics, fibers, rubber, and coatings. Anti-aging agents can be divided into three categories: antioxidants, light stabilizers, and heat stabilizers. Antioxidant products mainly include aromatic amine antioxidants, thioester antioxidants, biological antioxidants, etc. Light stabilizers Mainly include ultraviolet absorbers, light shielding agents, etc. Heat stabilizers mainly include metal soaps, organic tins, lead salts, etc.

Polymer materials are a key area of ​​modern industrial development. In recent years, with the support of national policies, my country’s polymer materials market has developed rapidly. At the same time, with the upgrading of downstream industries, the market has begun to pay more attention to the functions, environmental protection, and environmental protection of polymer materials. Requirements such as anti-aging properties continue to increase, which in turn drives the release of market demand for polymer material additives. Anti-aging agents are one of the mainstream polymer material additives, accounting for approximately 20.4% of polymer material additives.

From the perspective of the industrial chain, the upstream of the anti-aging agent industry chain is the raw material layer, which mainly includes alkylphenols, fatty acids and esters, aromatic amines, aliphatic mercaptans and other petroleum derivatives; the midstream of the industry chain is the anti-aging agent production layer; The downstream is the application layer, involving plastics, rubber, fibers, coatings and other fields. my country is a major producer and consumer of anti-aging agents, with a relatively complete industrial chain and supply chain layout for anti-aging agents.

According to the “2023-2027 China Anti-Aging Agent Industry Segment Demand and Development Opportunities Research Report released by the Industrial Research Center , thanks to the development of downstream industries, global anti-aging agent market consumption continues to grow. From 2016 to 2021, global antioxidant consumption increased from 1 million tons to more than 1.2 million tons, and light stabilizer consumption increased from 500,000 tons to more than 600,000 tons. From the perspective of development trends, under the dual-carbon background, anti-aging agent production will continue to develop in the direction of environmental protection, energy saving, low carbonization and high efficiency.

From a production perspective, in the global anti-aging agent market, foreign companies have strong competitiveness and occupy a major share of the global market, including BASF of Germany, ADEKA, Songwon of South Korea, Addivant of the United States and other companies. Domestically, anti-aging agent manufacturers include Li Anlong, Fengguang Co., Ltd., Sanfeng Chemical, Beijing Tiangang, Fujian Disheng, Suqian Liansheng, etc. In recent years, domestic companies have continued to increase their market share by virtue of their advantages such as high cost performance and service.

Industry analysts said that anti-aging agents are important polymer material additives in the fields of plastics, rubber, fibers and other fields. It is widely used. my country is a major chemical production country, and the anti-aging agent market has a large space for development. There are many anti-aging agent manufacturers in the world. Compared with foreign companies, my country’s anti-aging agent companies are less competitive and have broad room for improvement in technology, products, research and development, brand building and other aspects in the future.