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Plastic and rubber products and Rubber chemicals

Plastic and rubber products depends on rubber chemicals.

Plastic and rubber products (industry) and Rubber chemicals (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Rubber chemicals → Plastic and rubber products

3 of the enterprise types in Plastic and rubber products depend on rubber chemicals; 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: accelerators and antioxidants (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Tyre manufacturers: accelerators and antioxidants (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Technical rubber-goods makers: curing systems (criticality 3 of 5)

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