The move will make the company the world’s second largest manufacturer of carbon black with approximately 1.4 million tons per year.
Brazil is a core market for the Degussa’a Advanced Fillers & Pigments Business Unit. In the Brazilian market, around 90 per cent of the demand for carbon black comes from the tire and technical rubber articles industry, and 10 per cent is used as pigment in plastics, dyes, enamels and print inks.
Around 55 million tires and 2.6 million vehicles were produced in Brazil in 2006, a third of each destined for export.