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Precipitated silica (HD/HDS grades for tires)

White reinforcing filler replacing carbon black in fuel-efficient tire treads; enables the "magic triangle" of wet grip + rolling resistance + durability simultaneously; Evonik ULTRASIL® and Solvay Zeosil® are leading grades

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What depends on it

Goods that need this input

1 essential American goods rely on precipitated silica (hd/hds grades for tires) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.

Materials

Tires

Rubber, carbon black, steel wire, and petrochemical compounds; natural rubber from Malaysia and Thailand.

Who makes it

Supplier companies

1 company produce precipitated silica (hd/hds grades for tires).

Evonik Industries AG(EVK)

HQ DE18% share

Evonik Industries AG (XETRA: EVK; Essen Germany; MDAX listed); world's largest DL-methionine producer under the MetAMINO brand. Total DL-methionine capacity exceeds 700,000 MT/year across three continental hubs: Jurong Island Singapore (~340,000 MT/year — world's largest single methionine complex, expanded +40k MT August 2024), Theodore Mobile County Alabama USA (~245,000 MT/year), and Antwerp Belgium (~120,000 MT/year). The Wesseling Germany DL-Met line closed Q1 2021 as Evonik consolidated production to the three-hub network. Evonik first commercialized DL-methionine synthesis in the 1950s under predecessor Degussa. MetAMINO is Evonik's largest single product. ~30-32% global market share. In February 2022 Evonik announced a $176.5M investment in a new methyl mercaptan (MMP intermediate feedstock) plant at the Alabama site.

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