# Carbon black and Plastic and rubber products

Plastic and rubber products depends on carbon black.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/carbon-black-and-plastic-and-rubber-products/

[Carbon black](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/carbon_black/) (chemical) and [Plastic and rubber products](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/plastic_rubber/) (industry): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Industry input

*Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Carbon black → Plastic and rubber products*

3 of the enterprise types in Plastic and rubber products depend on carbon black; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

- **3** enterprise types depend on it
- **3 of 5** highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

- Synthetic rubber, carbon black and rubber-chemical makers: reinforcing filler (criticality 3 of 5)
- Tyre manufacturers: reinforcement (criticality 3 of 5)
- Compounders and masterbatch makers: black masterbatch (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.