Polymeric Adsorbents Market Size, Share Global Analysis Report, 2021 – 2026

Industry Insights

[187+ Pages Report] According to Facts and Factors, the global polymeric adsorbents market was valued at roughly USD 112 Million in 2020 and is predicted to create revenue of roughly USD 162 Million by the end of 2026, with a CAGR of roughly 6.2% between 2021 and 2026.

Market Overview             

Polymeric adsorbents are adsorbents that have been artificially produced and have their subunits covalently linked together. When compared to traditional adsorbents, these polymers have a wider variety of characteristics, including higher porosity, greater endurance, and a bigger surface area. Polymer adsorbents are widely utilized to treat phenolic wastes in a variety of end-use sectors, including pharmaceuticals, food & beverages, textiles, and others, due to their outstanding physicochemical qualities and adsorption capabilities. Mechanical strength, adsorption capacity, and selectivity may all be changed depending on the operating requirements.

Key Trends

Polymeric adsorbents are mostly utilized in the pharmaceutical sectors and food & beverage for purification and separation procedures. Purification of pharmaceutical goods, such as antibiotics and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), as well as food and beverage items, such as citric juices and vitamins, entails removing unwanted components and extracting high-quality and purified products. Polymeric adsorbents are more effective than conventional adsorbents at extracting components without contamination. They are also extremely resistant to caustic and acidic environments. This is anticipated to drive the polymeric adsorbents market. 

In industrial applications, polymeric adsorbents are used to remove phenol and substituted phenol from non-aqueous streams and aqueous, purify alkanol amines, recover heterocyclic amines, recover toluene, benzene, and xylene, decolonize organic streams and kraft pulp mill effluents, and purify hydrogen peroxide. Government laws governing the emission of flue and hazardous gases are forcing the chemical industry to use improved adsorption technology in purification operations all around the world. As a result, polymeric adsorbents are chosen over activated carbon due to their greater average pore diameter. This is expected to create lucrative opportunities for the market in the upcoming years.

Segmentation Analysis

The global polymeric adsorbents market is divided based on type, application,end-user industry, and region

Based on type the market is bifurcated into aromatic, methacrylic, modified aromatic, and others. Aromatic dominated the type segment as its resin is utilized in various food processing industries to recover materials such as proteins along with other high-value materials. It is also utilized to decolorize and purify food additives and ingredients. Also, the aromatic resin is used to purify and separate compounds with smaller molecular weight such as vitamins, enzymes, antibiotics, peptides, amino acids, and steroids. It can also be utilized in several process cycles in batch or column systems due to its thermal stability and physical resistance.

Based on the application the market is segregated into chlorinated solvents removal, purification of alkanol amines, anthocyanin removal, heterocyclic amines removal, sugar decolorization, and others. Chlorinated solvents removal dominated the application segmentation in 2020. This can be attributed to its use in cleaning solutions such as glues, paint thinner, resins, and pesticides among others. Chlorinated solvents, such as trichloroethylene (TCE), carbon tetrachloride (carbon tet), and methylene chloride, are a wide family of chemical compounds that include chlorine. Their chlorine-containing chemical structure aids them in dissolving organic compounds like fats and greases effectively, as well as serving as raw materials or intermediates in the manufacture of other chemicals. Workers can be exposed to chlorinated solvents by solvent absorption, skin contact, and inhalation. Because solvents evaporate quickly, inhalation is the most prevalent method of workplace exposure. Another significant method of exposure in the workplace is through skin contact. As a result of its increasing importance in the removal of chlorinated solvents, the market demand for polymeric adsorbents is increasing.

Based on the end-user industry, the market is bifurcated into the industrial, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemicals, textile, and others. The pharmaceutical segment dominated the end-user industry segmentation due to its use in the pharmaceutical industry for purification and separation of enzymes, and antibiotics among others. Proteins, peptides, antibiotics, and several compounds can be removed efficiently using polymeric adsorbents. In many cases, the resin's pore structure may be used to increase the removal of smaller molecules while rejecting larger ones. Due to the hemocompatible nature of adsorbent resins, they are frequently employed to extract substances such as β2-microglobulin and cytokines from blood and other biologic fluids while leaving serum proteins intact. As a result, polymeric adsorbents are becoming more prevalent in the market.

Polymeric Adsorbents Market: Report Scope

Regional Analysis

Asia Pacific region dominated the polymeric adsorbents market and is anticipated to continue its dominance in the upcoming years. The growing demand for polymeric adsorbents is due to increasing demand from developing and developed economies in the region such as India, China, Japan, and South Korea. The growing demand from end-user industries such as food & beverage and in these countries is one of the driving factors for the polymeric adsorbents market in the Asia Pacific. Increasing private and public investments, growing disposable income, population, and economy are some of the reasons driving these industries in the Asia Pacific region. China is projected to be the region's fastest-growing country-level market due to the presence of significant end-use industries. Due to rising demand for polymeric adsorbents in different end-use sectors such as textile and pharmaceutical, India and other Southeast Asian nations are projected to boost regional market expansion.

Competitive Players

Some main participants of the global polymeric adsorbents market are

• Lanxess AG
• Ion Exchange (India) Ltd.
• Thermax Limited
• Amicogen (China) Biopharm Co. Ltd.
• Shanghai Bairy Technology Co. Ltd.
• Canftech Inc.
• Samyang Corporation
• Jiangsu Kimshan New Material Co. Ltd
• ResinTech Inc.
• Tianjin NankaiHecheng Science &Technology Co. Ltd.
• DuPont de Nemours Inc.
• Purolite
• Chemra GmbH
• Minerals Technologies Inc.
• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
• Ajinomoto Fine-Techno Co.Inc.
• Ningbo Zhengguang Resin Co.Ltd.
• Suqing Group
• Suzhou Bojie Resin Technology Co.Ltd.
• Sunresin New Materials Co Ltd
• Seppro Separation Technology LTD
• Jiangsu Jinkai Resin Chemical Co. Ltd

By Type

• Methacrylic
• Aromatic
• Modified Aromatic
• Others

By Application

• Anthocyanin Removal
• Chlorinated Solvents Removal
• Heterocyclic Amines Removal
• Purification of Alkanolamines
• Sugar Decolorization
• Others

By End-User Industry

• Food and Beverage
• Industrial
• Chemicals
• Pharmaceutical
• Textile
• Others

By Region

• North America
  • U.S.
  • Canada
• Europe
  • France
  • UK
  • Spain
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Rest of Europe
• Asia Pacific
  • China
  • Japan
  • India
  • South Korea
  • Southeast Asia
  • Rest of Asia Pacific
• Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • Rest of Latin America
• Middle East & Africa
  • GCC Countries
  • South Africa
  • Rest of Middle East & Africa