Plasticizers – Benefits, Trends, Health, and Environmental Issues
Plasticizers are colorless and odorless esters, mainly phthalates, that increase the elasticity of a material (e.g., polyvinylchloride (PVC)). Plasticizers soften the PVC to make it flexible and bendable. This opens up a huge range of possibilities for new applications.
Market Report Plasticizers: Industry Analysis | 2025-2032 - Ceresana
The following plasticizer types are considered in detail: DEHP, DINP and DIDP, other phthalates, plasticizers without phthalates. The market report examines the various areas of application for plasticizers: profiles, films, cables, floorings, other plastics, elastomers, paints and coatings, adhesives.
Non-phthalate plasticizer gives flexible PVC an
With 40% renewable content, Pevalen Pro not only gives PVC an environmental boost as a renewable true non-phthalate plasticizer but also provides superior performance properties. The intent is to boost renewable content to 100%. New Pevalen Pro plasticizer gives flexible PVC an environmental boost. (Photo: Perstorp)
Colombia’s Development Agenda Needs to Prioritise Productive
To build on its socio-economic progress, Colombia needs to fast track its productive transformation, according to the OECD’s Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR) of Colombia, released today at a presentation hosted by Colombia’s National Planning Department (DNP). The PTPR provides timely recommendations on how Colombia can advance on its path towards prosperity on a topic that
a new plasticizer for durable products - Evonik
Marl, Germany. With the product ELATUR DINCD, Evonik has launched another latest generation innovative plasticizer. The new product, a cyclohexanoate, is characterized by a combination of much sought-after properties, such as excellent low-temperature flexibility, and high UV resistance; thus contributing significantly to the weather resistance and durability of the products made from it.
- How can Colombia reduce plastic waste?
- Under its ambitious targets, Colombia will eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastics and transform all plastic packaging to reusable, recyclable or compostable formats. It will work to increase its plastic recycling rate to 50%, and the average recycled content of plastic packaging to 30%.
- Why is Colombia launching a plastics Pact?
- Colombia has become the second Latin American country to launch a Plastics Pact to tackle the environmental impacts of plastics and support international work developing a circular economy for plastics.
- How much plastic does Colombia produce a year?
- Colombia currently places upwards of 700,500 tonnes of plastic containers and packaging into the domestic market each year, but as little as 3% is reincorporated back into packaging.
- How much plastic is repurposed in Colombia?
- Over 700,500 tonnes of plastic packaging and containers are currently thought to enter the domestic market in Colombia every year, although as little as 3% of that figure is expected to be repurposed in packaging applications.
- Who will support the Colombian plastics Pact?
- Acoplásticos, The Consumer Goods Forum, WWF, and the University of Los Andes will also provide support for the project. “We are delighted to work with CEMPRE to launch the Colombian Plastics Pact,” said David Rogers, international director at WRAP.
- Where have plastic pacts been developed?
- Plastics pacts have been developed in multiple regions including Europe, Canada, the United States, Kenya, and Oceania. Signatories to the UK and US Plastics Pacts also committed to increasing the use of recycled content and reducing unnecessary and problematic plastics (FPF reported, also here).
