Illustrative List of Suppliers

For many of the above, plastics additive manufacture is only a small part of a much wider portfolio of interests, whereas Great Lakes, Chemson, Cytec, Akcros Chemicals, Crompton and Baerlocher have a large part of their total business in additives. 

A few companies have become much more committed to additives in recent years. They include Crompton Corp. and Asahi Denka Kogyo. The latter has identified polymer additives as an important new focus, and has set itself the target of taking 10% of the whole global additives business. 

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