Plastics & Rubber

Our additives for plastic coatings provide excellent scratch resistance, soft touch and haptic properties for your plastic coating formulation. Application areas cover coatings for consumer electronics, cosmetic packaging or PVC flooring.

To modify the production process and the formulation of PVC. We offer antifoams, emulsifiers and secondary suspension aids.

By choosing our active and highly selective catalysts, you can optimize selective hydrogenations and oxidations in the production of your polymer precursor, such as alpha-methyl styrene (AMS), olefins, resins, vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), or vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). At the same time, you’ll reduce the amount of unwanted by products

Our hydrogenation catalysts support your economic production of aliphatic plasticizers in line with regulatory and market requirements. Our Noblyst® P type of precious metal powder catalysts are used to hydrogenate aromatic structures to a safer cycloaliphatic compound, thus reducing the toxicity and environmental burden of this class of plasticizer.

Our Catylen® product range consists of key components used for the formulation of PE and PP polymerization catalysts. They decisively contribute to the selectivity and productivity of a catalyst system. The brand name Catylen® comprises support materials (Catylen® S) and donors (Catylen® D) to formulate state-of-the-art Ziegler-Natta catalysts.

We produce catalysts in all industrially required scales and ensure that their performance remains undiminished in 24/7 continuously operated large-scale plants. Our catalysts are characterized by consistently high activity, selectivity, and batch-to-batch reliably high quality.

For the reduction of flammability of cables. Hydrated fillers such as ATH achieve their flame retardance by decomposing endothermically, with the release of water close to the temperature at which the polymers themselves decompose. They do not have smoke and corrosive gas problems associated with other types of flame retardants.

Functional organosilanes contain white fillers and are used in a wide range of products in the rubber industry. They offer a range of improved physical properties and significantly improve processability. The choice of the appropriate silane usually depends on the crosslinking system used.

Evonik provides intermediates and expertise to solve a wide range of packaging challenges: Our Butadiene and Butene-1 are used in the production of high-quality plastics such as polyethylene and poly(1-butene). Important applications of Butene-1 are packaging materials such as films, bags, and food packaging. Our Butadiene is a key monomer for the production of synthetic rubber or other polymers.

For high-quality masterbatches and liquid colorants by providing an optimum dispersion of the pigments or fillers.

Evonik offers specially developed VESTAMID® PA612 molding compounds for the patented plastic-rubber composite process with a strong bonding between the hard and soft component without adhesives.  

For an optimal exploitation of the rubber properties, for example automotive rubber hoses, industrial long hoses, molded rubber or window profiles.

With rubber silica, mechanical rubber goods (MRG) withstand even the toughest loads. As reinforcing fillers, they improve the tear resistance, dimensional stability and durability of your products.

Silica enhances the handling, quality and performance of thermoplastics, polymer compounds, composites and thermoplastic polymers. Our silica makes it easier to process plastics at all times, as they enable powders and granulates to flow freely, as well as prevent caking, even after long storage times. Silica also acts as carriers and process auxiliaries, or control rheology.

Optimize the rubber compounds of your shoe soles with silica. Our silicas have a wide range of uses as reinforcing fillers, whether for increasing resistance to wear, as improving traction – or for modern design as a transparent and/or translucent sole.

Optimize the desired properties of silicone rubber with silica. Thixotropy, a crucial characteristic when it comes to handling silicone sealing compounds that need to exit the cartridge smoothly and cleanly before curing quickly in the joint. Our AEROSIL® fumed silica enables the viscosity to be adjusted perfectly.

Silica enables you to process unsaturated polyester resins in the best possible way. Our silica guarantees effective thickening and adjust the thixotropy of the resins perfectly.

Substituting carbon black with the silica/silane system in tread compounds in combination with a special polymer blend leads to significant improvements in rolling resistance and wet traction. Compared to tread compounds filled with carbon black, lower fuel consumption and higher driving safety can be achieved.

VESTENAMER® is a semicrystalline rubber. As a polymeric processing aid, it acts as a plasticizer of rubber compounds in mixing and manufacturing processes. In the vulcanization of rubber parts, it participates in crosslinking and, as an elastomer, is fully incorporated into the network. 

VISIOMER® Specialty Methacrylate crosslinkers provide mechanical, thermal and chemical robustness for a wide range of plastic and rubber products like artificial marble, plastisols, impact modifiers and cable jackets. VISIOMER® Terra products carry up to 90% biobased raw materials and reduce the carbon footprint of plastic products.