Key Features:
- The total sustainable carbon black market in 2023 is estimated at 117ktpa and projected to be more than 1 million tonnes in 2033
- Less than 1% of all carbon black used today in new tire production globally is sustainable carbon black, by 2033 up to 7% usage is anticipated
One billion end-of-life tires (ELTs) are generated each year, and 68% of the 210+ raw materials in tires are fossil-based, including carbon black, the main reinforcing material in tires. The carbon black and tire industries face daunting challenges in coming years to develop products that truly fit the circular economy's development, meet sustainability requirements, and reduce CO2 emissions on the way to net zero by 2050.
Definition:
This report provides a comprehensive update on sustainable carbon black technology, and benchmarks the four leading developments in sustainable carbon blacks (methane, recovered, renewable and circular carbon blacks), as well as competing alternative sustainable tire fillers. With 74% of the global carbon black market used in tires (PCR, LTR, TBR and OTR), the report is primarily focused on the tire industry's use of sustainable carbon blacks from end-of-life tires (ELTs), and how that affects both the tire and carbon black industries' efforts to be net zero by 2050.
Key Questions:
- How has the industry for sustainable carbon black progressed in recent years?
- What factors are disrupting raw material supply chains for natural rubber and carbon black?
- What are the future market dynamics and regulatory outlook for sustainable carbon black to 2044?
- Who are the market leaders in traditional and sustainable carbon black production?
- What are the key challenges and opportunities for carbon black producers over the next two decades?
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Report scope
- Report objective
- Methodology
- List of definitions
- Acknowledgements
Industry drivers and trends
- Introduction
- Industry drivers and trends
- Tire industry sustainability targets
- Summary of latest sustainability technology
- Carbon black technology
- Silica technology
- The carbon footprint of car types
- User requirements
- Regional differences
- State of the furnace carbon black industry and status of sustainability
- Global furnace black shortages
- Regulations and likely developments
Methane pyrolysis carbon black developments
- Introduction
- Methane pyrolysis carbon black companies
- Sustainability of methane pyrolysis carbon black
- Biogenic and recycled content
- Purity
- Market, Supply and demand
- Pricing
Recovered carbon black developments
- Introduction to recovered carbon black
- Recovered rCB Specifications
- Consistency
- Particle Size, D97
- Toluene Transmittance, D1618
- Ash content
- In-rubber Surface Activity, D8491
- Silica
- Char content
- Volatiles and PAH's
- Contaminants
- Milling and granulation specs
- Sustainability of recovered carbon black
- CO2e emissions
- Biogenic or recycled content
- Purity
- Market for recovered carbon black
- Supply and demand
- Pricing
- Recovered carbon black companies
- BB&G AWES
- Black Bear Carbon
- Bolder Industries
- Circtec Group
- Contec
- Delta Energy (New name TBD)
- Ecolomondo
- Ecotr
- Elysium Nordic
- Enrestec
- G3C Technologies
- Kal Tire
- New Energy
- Klean Technologies Inc.
- LD Carbon
- Polimix Ambiental
- PRTI
- Pyrum Innovations AG
- Reoil
- Scandinavian Enviro
- Stadtwerke Osnabruck
- Wastefront
- Waverly Carbon
Renewable carbon black
- Introduction
- Renewable carbon black companies
- CO2e emissions
- Biogenic or recycled content
- Purity
- Market for circular carbon black
- Demand and supply
- Pricing
Circular carbon black developments
- Introduction
- Circular carbon black companies
- Cabot
- Orion Engineered Products
- BlackCycle Project
- Korean Blackcycle project
- Sustainability of Circular carbon black
- CO2e emissions
- Biogenic or recycled content
- Purity
- Market for circular carbon black
- Demand and supply
- Pricing
Regulatory environment and future outlook
- Overview of sustainable carbon blacks
- Application coverage
- Tire applications
- MRG applications
- Coloring applications
- Plastic applications
- Coating applications
- Potential upsides
- Growth pathways for sustainable carbon blacks
- Other types of sustainable rubber fillers
- Wood carbon black (Wood pyrolysis)
- Lignin filler (SunCoal lignin)
- Rice-husk silica (TRL-6, potentially TRL 7 by 2025)
- CarbonX filaments
- Carbon nanotubes, Graphenes
- CO2 carbon black (Noyes process)
- Contribution to reducing carbon black CO2e emissions
- Outlook
- Market availability
- Pricing structure
- Status of regulatory compliance
- REACH
- Other global regulations
- Waste status of materials
Appendix
- Compounding notes and discussion
- Discussion of rCB modification and upgrade methodologies
- Resources and links