プラスチックマスターバッチの世界市場、2024年～2031年

持続可能で多機能、高付加価値のマスターバッチソリューションの開発が新たな成長機会を牽引

マスターバッチ市場には、カラー、添加剤、白色、黒色、フィラーの各セグメントが含まれます。また、熱可塑性プラスチックと熱硬化性樹脂の2つの最終製品群から構成されます。

メーカーはマスターバッチを使用して、顔料や添加剤をポリマー樹脂やエラストマーにより効率的に配合します。これらの化合物は分散性を高めることで、製品の均一性とプロセスの安定性を向上させます。また、有害な化学物質を封じ込めることで、取り扱いの安全性を高めます。ダストフリーのペレットで供給されるマスターバッチは、生産現場を清潔に保ち、二次汚染を減らし、製品の切り替えを迅速化します。その結果、包装、農業、繊維、医療などの業界では、従来の顔料や添加剤よりもマスターバッチを好む傾向が強まっています。

2024年には、添加剤とカラーマスターバッチが、金額と数量の両方で世界最大の市場シェアを占めました。予測期間中もこのリードを維持すると思われます。添加剤マスターバッチはプラスチックの性能を向上させ、カラーマスターバッチはポリマーの汎用性を高めることで、メーカーが多様な最終用途の要求に応えられるようにします。

熱可塑性ポリマーとエラストマーを含む熱可塑性プラスチックが、2024年のマスターバッチの世界消費量の最大シェアを占めました。製造業者は、ベース樹脂の一貫した色付けと性能強化のためにマスターバッチを利用しています。対照的に、合成ゴムや熱硬化性樹脂のような熱硬化性ベースの製品はマスターバッチの使用量が少なく、この傾向は今後も続くと予想されます。これらのセグメントのエンドユーザーは、固体や液体のマスターバッチよりも低コストの粉末や液体の顔料や添加剤を選択する傾向があります。

途上諸国、特にAPACとMEASAでは、中産階級の人口と世帯所得が急増しています。この変化により、コモディティ化された熱可塑性製品への裁量的支出が増加しています。これらの地域では、最終製品の開発が拡大するにつれて、マスターバッチのダストフリーな取り扱いや多機能性の利点が、その採用を後押ししています。

一方、北米と欧州の成熟市場は、高性能で持続可能な材料を優先しています。大手メーカーは、優れた色の一貫性、均一な添加剤分散、粉塵の出ない加工、リサイクル性、様々なキャリア樹脂との相溶性を保証する高度なマスターバッチを提供しています。

目次

調査範囲

• マスターバッチ市場の概要と調査範囲
• セグメンテーション

戦略的インペラティブ

• なぜ成長が難しくなっているのか？
• The Strategic Imperative 8（TM）
• プラスチックマスターバッチ業界に対する戦略的インペラティブトップ3の影響
• Growth Pipeline Engine（TM）を促進する成長機会

成長機会分析

• 成長指標
• マスターバッチ市場の概要と範囲
• マスターバッチ製造プロセス
• 成長促進要因
• 成長促進要因分析
• 成長抑制要因
• 成長抑制要因分析
• 新製品開発
• 促進要因と抑制要因のグラフサマリー：熱可塑性プラスチック
• 促進要因と抑制要因のグラフサマリー：熱硬化性樹脂
• 収益・数量予測
• 収益・出荷量予測分析
• マスターバッチ市場の価格動向と予測
• 価格動向と予測分析
• 地域別、収益予測
• 地域別、数量予測
• 地域別、収益・数量予測分析
• 用途別、数量割合・収益内訳
• マスターバッチ市場のバリューチェーン
• 競合環境

成長ジェネレーター：熱可塑性プラスチック

• 熱可塑性プラスチック用マスターバッチ市場：セグメントの特徴と概要
• 収益・数量予測
• 予測分析
• 製品別、収益予測
• 製品別、出荷量予測
• 製品別、予測分析

成長ジェネレーター：熱硬化性樹脂

• 熱硬化性樹脂用マスターバッチ市場：セグメントの特徴と概要
• 収益・数量予測
• 予測分析
• 製品別、収益予測
• 製品別、出荷量予測
• 製品別、予測分析

成長機会ユニバース

• 成長機会1：品質重視
• 成長機会2：持続可能性の推進
• 成長機会3：革新のコラボレーション

付録と次のステップ

• 成長機会のメリットと影響
• 次のステップ
• 資料リスト
• 免責事項

Development of Sustainable, Multifunctional, and Value-added Masterbatch Solutions Is Driving New Growth Opportunities

The masterbatches market includes color, additive, white, black, and filler segments. It also comprises 2 end-product families: thermoplastics and thermosets.

Manufacturers use masterbatches to incorporate pigments and additives into polymer resins and elastomers more efficiently. These compounds improve product uniformity and process stability by enhancing dispersion. They also encapsulate hazardous chemicals, making handling safer. Supplied in dust-free pellet form, masterbatches keep production areas cleaner, reduce cross-contamination, and speed up product changeovers. As a result, industries such as packaging, agriculture, textiles, and medical increasingly prefer masterbatches over conventional pigments and additives.

In 2024, additive and color masterbatches accounted for the largest global market shares by both value and volume. They are likely to maintain this lead during the forecast period. Additive masterbatches enhance plastic performance, while color masterbatches increase polymer versatility, allowing manufacturers to meet diverse end-use requirements.

Thermoplastics-including thermoplastic polymers and elastomers-represented the largest share of global masterbatch consumption in 2024. Manufacturers rely on them for consistent color addition and performance enhancement of base resins. By contrast, thermoset-based products, such as synthetic rubbers and thermoset resins, showed lower masterbatch usage-a trend that is expected to persist. End-users in these segments often choose powdered or liquid pigments and additives, which offer lower costs than solid or liquid masterbatches.

Developing countries, particularly in APAC and MEASA, have witnessed a sharp rise in middle-class populations and household incomes. This shift has increased discretionary spending on commoditized thermoplastic products. The dust-free handling and multifunctional benefits of masterbatches are driving their adoption as end-product development expands in these regions.

Meanwhile, mature markets in North America and Europe are prioritizing high-performance and sustainable materials. Leading producers are offering advanced masterbatches that ensure superior color consistency, uniform additive dispersion, dust-free processing, recyclability, and compatibility with various carrier resins.

The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Plastic Masterbatches Industry

Competitive Intensity

• Why:
• By definition, masterbatches provide plastic processors with a method for incorporating required pigments and additives into compounds. However, alternative routes to market exist that do not rely on masterbatches, keeping competitive intensity high.
• Companies offering substitute forms continually evolve their products, requiring masterbatch specialists to stay vigilant and responsive to these developments.
• Frost Perspective:
• Although masterbatches offer customers significant convenience, they often cost more than in-house compounding. As a result, cost-conscious customers pose one of the biggest risks to masterbatch suppliers.
• Technical innovations in alternative solutions also present a threat-particularly those that enhance convenience and erode the competitive edge of masterbatches, such as liquid colors and additives.

Industry Convergence

• Why:
• Relatively few masterbatch suppliers remain "pure-play," as many also operate in other tiers of the plastics value chain.
• Companies often pursue vertical integration as a key advantage in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. For example, LyondellBasell acquired A. Schulman in 2018, and PolyOne acquired Clariant Masterbatches in 2020 to form Avient-adding masterbatch capabilities to broader portfolios.
• Since then, M&A activity in the industry has focused heavily on acquiring regional and local players to expand geographic reach.
• Frost Perspective:
• Mergers, acquisitions, and strategic collaborations-such as Sukano's acquisition of KAYS Kft. and the Hubron-Graphenest alliance-are intensifying competition and accelerating market consolidation in the masterbatch industry.
• While these moves strengthen larger players, they create pressure on smaller manufacturers, leading to an uneven market share and differentiation landscape.

Transformative Mega Trends

• Why:
• As in other markets, environmental sustainability is taking center stage in the plastics industry.
• Regulatory bodies are pushing for higher recycled content through circular economy mandates, driving manufacturers to adapt their formulations by incorporating more post-consumer resin (PCR).
• Frost Perspective:
• Stricter plastic waste regulations and the growing focus on the circular economy pose a significant risk to masterbatch manufacturers.
• As recycled plastics gain traction, demand for new masterbatches declines because recycled materials often already contain additives and colors.

Table of Contents

Research Scope

• Masterbatches Market Overview and Scope
• Segmentation

Strategic Imperatives

• Why Is It Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
• The Strategic Imperative 8
• The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Plastic Masterbatches Industry
• Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine

Growth Opportunity Analysis

• Growth Metrics
• Masterbatches Market Overview and Scope
• Masterbatch Manufacturing Process
• Growth Drivers
• Growth Driver Analysis
• Growth Restraints
• Growth Restraint Analysis
• New Product Developments
• Graphical Summary of Drivers and Restraints: Thermoplastics
• Graphical Summary of Drivers and Restraints: Thermoset
• Revenue and Volume Forecast
• Revenue and Volume Shipment Forecast Analysis
• Pricing Trends and Forecast, Masterbatches Market
• Pricing Trends and Forecast Analysis
• Revenue Forecast by Region
• Volume Forecast by Region
• Revenue and Volume Forecast Analysis by Region
• Percent Volume and Revenue Breakdown by Application
• Value Chain, Masterbatches Market
• Competitive Environment

Growth Generator: Thermoplastics

• Masterbatches Market for Thermoplastics: Segment Characteristics and Overview
• Revenue and Volume Forecast
• Forecast Analysis
• Revenue Forecast by Product
• Volume Shipment Forecast by Product
• Forecast Analysis by Product

Growth Generator: Thermosets

• Masterbatches Market for Thermosets: Segment Characteristics and Overview
• Revenue and Volume Forecast
• Forecast Analysis
• Revenue Forecast by Product
• Volume Shipment Forecast by Product
• Forecast Analysis by Product

Growth Opportunity Universe

• Growth Opportunity 1: Focus on Quality
• Growth Opportunity 2: Drive Sustainability
• Growth Opportunity 3: Collaborate to Innovate

Appendix and Next Steps

• Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
• Next Steps
• List of Exhibits
• Legal Disclaimer