CARBON BLACK

Carbon Black is a vital component in making many products we use every strong, appealing, durable, and safe. These solutions include tires, automotive weather strips and belts, plastic parts, coatings, inks, and sealants. For example, tires without reinforcing carbon black would not run over 100 miles. As a pigment, carbon black offers desired color strength for applications ranging from electronic enclosures to automotive coatings, and household appliances. Carbon black imparts UV durability to rubber and plastic goods to ensure their service life for a few decades. As an electrically conductive additive, carbon black renders insulative rubber and plastic materials antistatic, electro dissipative or conductive to provide safety and protection, and thereby reliability for mining, electronic packaging, and wire and cable applications, to name a few.

The fundamental properties of carbon black determine application performance. These include:

• Particle size
• Structure
• Porosity
• Surface chemistry or Surface activity
• Physical Form