The market demand for transparent nucleating agents continues to rise, and domestic companies have greater room for improvement.

Transparent nucleating agent is a functional modification additive that can reduce product haze by changing resin crystallization behavior and rate, thereby improving product transparency. Transparent nucleating agents are important materials for manufacturing highly transparent products. Adding transparent nucleating agents can not only effectively increase the transparency and optical effects of polymers such as polypropylene and polyethylene, but also help improve their rigidity and wide melt index. .

There are many types of transparent nucleating agents, which can be divided into organic transparent nucleating agents, inorganic transparent nucleating agents and polymer nucleating agents. Among them, organic transparent nucleating agents include sorbitols, aryl phosphates, carboxylic acids Metal salts, dehydropolar acids and their salts, branched acid amines and other subdivided types; inorganic transparent nucleating agents mainly include talc, silica, calcium carbonate, silica, titanium dioxide, calcium oxide and other non-metallic nucleating agents. metal compounds.

According to the “2022-2027 China Transparent Nucleating Agent Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center In recent years, with the high-quality development of my country’s economy, the market has put forward higher requirements for the transparency and gloss of plastic products. The market demand for highly transparent plastic products has increased. Against this background, the market demand for transparent nucleating agents has been released. .

Take polypropylene as an example. Polypropylene is a semi-crystalline polymer with low gloss. At present, the structure of my country’s polypropylene industry is unbalanced. There are many types of low-performance polypropylene and the market is becoming saturated. However, the output of high value-added and highly transparent polypropylene is still small, and market demand still relies on imports. In order to seek more markets, highly transparent polypropylene has become a new breakthrough for domestic enterprises. As a key additive for the production of highly transparent polypropylene, transparent nucleating agents have attracted increasing market attention.

At present, transparent nucleating agents have formed a certain market scale at home and abroad. In foreign markets, the main suppliers of transparent nucleating agents include BASF of Germany, Adico of Japan, Doumoto Company of South Korea, Milliken Company, New Japan R&C, etc.; In the domestic market, transparent nucleating agent suppliers include Chenghe Technology, Ruiqit Chemical, Zibo Kunyu Chemical, Shanghai Qirun, etc. Among them, Chenghe Technology is the largest nucleating agent supplier in China.

Compared with European and American countries, the research and development of transparent nucleating agents in my country is relatively backward, and the demand for high-end transparent nucleating agents still relies on imports. However, with the increase in the number of enterprises, the production capacity of high-end transparent nucleating agents in my country is constantly improving. At the same time, New type, high efficiency, multi-function and low cost have gradually become important trends in industry development.

Industry analysts said that adding transparent nucleating agents is one of the key ways to improve the transparency of polypropylene, polyethylene and other products. In recent years In recent years, with the high-quality development of the polypropylene and polyethylene industries, the market demand for transparent nucleating agents has continued to rise. my country’s research and development level of transparent nucleating agents is lower than that of European and American countries, but under the general trend of domestic substitution, there is broad room for the development of domestic transparent nucleating agents.