Carbon Black

Product Details

Carbon black is used in small-scale industries up to large-scale industries that affect national interests. In addition to rubber reinforcement, Carbon Black is used as a black pigment and as an additive to improve material performance, including conductivity, viscosity, static charge control and UV protection. This type of Carbon Black (commonly called Special Carbon Black) is used in a variety of applications in the coatings, polymer and printing industries, as well as in a variety of other specialty applications.

Carbon is one of the most abundant elements on our globe and as a single element it comes in many different forms from lead pencils to diamonds to water filters. In chemical combination it is everywhere – hydrocarbons fuel our vehicles and make plastics. Carbon is all around us in flora and fauna – indeed a forest is otherwise known as a carbon bank.

So yes, carbon black is the reason that tyres are black. But there’s more to it than that. There are synthetic rubbers and natural rubbers, but carbon black is unique in its ability to enhance the critical properties of nearly any base material used in rubber manufacture – it significantly increases the stiffness, tensile strength and abrasion resistance of rubber compounds. So carbon black is critical to the strength, handling, wear and durability of any rubber tyre.

Carbon black is produced in a furnace, predominantly from petroleum, as a product of incomplete combustion. Basically, it is formed from smoke – albeit a specifically engineered smoke that requires precise processing and handling to produce the exact qualities of the carbon black required.

Carbon black is used as an excellent black coloring agent. Therefore, it is widely used for printing inks, resin dyes, paints and toners because it has better color strength compared to iron oxide or organic pigments. Carbon black with a larger structure shows excellent conductive properties.

Carbon black is suitable for coloring resins and plastic films because it has high color strength and is stable even at high temperatures.

Due to its excellent nature of absorbing ultraviolet (UV) rays and providing better weather resistance, Carbon black is also used in the car bumper industry, wire coatings and pipe coatings.

Carbon black is also used as an excellent antistatic agent, where the particles have a crystal structure that functions as a conductive filler in plastics, elastomers, paints, adhesives, and films. A certain type of carbon black, called special black or performance black, is used as a pigment to increase conductivity and control static charge, thereby providing UV protection and improving mechanical properties in products such as plastics, inks, paints and coatings, toners and electronics.

The use of carbon black in the largest volume is for performance additive in rubber products, especially in tires and other rubber industrial goods such as hoses, belts, extrusion profiles, and molded rubber goods. Now, the use of carbon black has also penetrated into automotive rubber parts such as hoses, belts, gaskets, seals, wipers, and all rubber parts.