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2-Mercaptoethanol
2-Mercaptoethanol is an alcohol chemical identified by its named molecular and positional structure.
Product & engineering
Understand the product.
2-Mercaptoethanol (also ß-mercaptoethanol, BME, 2BME, 2-ME or ß-met) is the chemical compound with the formula HOCH2CH2SH. 2-ME is a colorless liquid, with an amine-like odor. It is flammable and soluble in water and various organic solvents. 2-ME can be used as the intermediate in the production of PVC stabilizer, crop protection, pharmaceuticals, photographic chemicals, solvent and stabilizer, initial product for chemical syntheses, water treatment and corrosion inhibitor.
The full named identity, positional or stereochemical form, assay basis, impurity profile and supplied form define 2-Mercaptoethanol. Material qualification and downstream formulation acceptance are distinct requirements; report segmentation is not a supplier specification.
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The full named identity, positional or stereochemical form, assay basis, impurity profile and supplied form define 2-Mercaptoethanol. Material qualification and downstream formulation acceptance are distinct requirements; report segmentation is not a supplier specification.
Selected research
Market Structure
Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Market by Size, by Type, by Application, by Region, History and Forecast 2021-2032
Market perspective
2-Mercaptoethanol (also ß-mercaptoethanol, BME, 2BME, 2-ME or ß-met) is the chemical compound with the formula HOCH2CH2SH. 2-ME is a colorless liquid, with an amine-like odor. It is flammable and soluble in water and various organic solvents. 2-ME can be used as the intermediate in the production of PVC stabilizer, crop protection, pharmaceuticals, photographic chemicals, solvent and stabilizer, initial product for chemical syntheses, water treatment and corrosion inhibitor.
Chevron Phillips Chemical, BASF and Sunion Chemical & Plastics are the top 3 players of 2-Mercaptoethanol, with about 96% market shares.
2-Mercaptoethanol can be divided into <99% type and ≥ 99% type, ≥ 99% type accounts for nearly 98%.
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The applications of 2-Mercaptoethanol are Consumer & Industrial Applications, Agrochemicals, Polymers and Rubber Applications, Water Treatment Applications and others. the market is mainly driven by growing demand for Polymers and Rubber Applications, accounts for nearly 39%.
The report provides an overview of the global 2-Mercaptoethanol market in terms of capacity, output, revenue, and price, analyzing global market trends using historical revenue and sales data for 2021-2025, estimates for 2026, and projected CAGRs through 2032.
The study covers key producers of 2-Mercaptoethanol and consumption patterns in major regions and countries, assesses future market potential, and highlights priority regions and countries for segmenting the market into sub-sectors, with country-specific market value data for the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, India, Germany, the U.K., Italy, the Middle East, Africa, and other countries.
The report also presents 2-Mercaptoethanol sales, revenue, market share, and industry ranking for the main manufacturers for 2021-2026, identifies the major stakeholders in the global market, and analyzes their competitive landscape and market positioning based on recent developments and segmental revenues.
In addition, the report analyzes segment data by type and application—covering sales, revenue, and price—for 2021-2032, and evaluates and forecasts the 2-Mercaptoethanol market size, projected growth trends, production technologies, key applications, and end-use industries.
2-Mercaptoethanol Segment by Company
Chevron Phillips Chemical
BASF
Sunion Chemical & Plastics
2-Mercaptoethanol Segment by Type
Below 99%
Above 99%
2-Mercaptoethanol Segment by Application
Consumer & Industrial
Agrochemicals
Polymers and Rubber
Water Treatment
Others
2-Mercaptoethanol Segment by Region
North America
United States
Canada
Mexico
Europe
Germany
France
U.K.
Italy
Russia
Spain
Netherlands
Switzerland
Sweden
Poland
Asia-Pacific
China
Japan
South Korea
India
Australia
Taiwan
Southeast Asia
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Türkiye
GCC Countries
Study Objectives
1. To analyze and research the global status and future forecast, involving, production, value, consumption, growth rate (CAGR), market share, historical and forecast.
2. To present the key manufacturers, capacity, production, revenue, market share, and Recent Developments.
3. To split the breakdown data by regions, type, manufacturers, and Application.
4. To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints, and risks.
5. To identify significant trends, drivers, influence factors in global and regions.
6. To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market.
Reasons to Buy This Report
1. This report will help the readers to understand the competition within the industries and strategies for the competitive environment to enhance the potential profit. The report also focuses on the competitive landscape of the global 2-Mercaptoethanol market, and introduces in detail the market share, industry ranking, competitor ecosystem, market performance, new product development, operation situation, expansion, and acquisition. etc. of the main players, which helps the readers to identify the main competitors and deeply understand the competition pattern of the market.
2. This report will help stakeholders to understand the global industry status and trends of 2-Mercaptoethanol and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities.
3. This report will help stakeholders to understand competitors better and gain more insights to strengthen their position in their businesses. The competitive landscape section includes the market share and rank (in volume and value), competitor ecosystem, new product development, expansion, and acquisition.
4. This report stays updated with novel technology integration, features, and the latest developments in the market.
5. This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into which regions to target globally.
6. This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into the end-user perception concerning the adoption of 2-Mercaptoethanol.
7. This report helps stakeholders to identify some of the key players in the market and understand their valuable contribution.
Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: Provides an overview of the 2-Mercaptoethanol market, including product definition, global market growth prospects, production value, capacity, and average price forecasts (2021-2032).
Chapter 2: Analysis key trends, drivers, challenges, and opportunities within the global 2-Mercaptoethanol industry.
Chapter 3: Detailed analysis of 2-Mercaptoethanol market competition landscape. Including 2-Mercaptoethanol manufacturers' output value, output and average price from 2021 to 2026, as well as competition analysis indicators such as origin, product type, application, merger and acquisition information, etc.
Chapter 4: Provides the analysis of various market segments by type, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different market segments.
Chapter 5: Provides the analysis of various market segments by application, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different downstream markets.
Chapter 6: Provides profiles of key players, introducing the basic situation of the main companies in the market in detail, including product production/output, value, price, gross margin, product introduction, recent development, etc.
Chapter 7: Production/Production Value of 2-Mercaptoethanol by region. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region in the next six years.
Chapter 8: Consumption of 2-Mercaptoethanol in regional level and country level. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region and its main countries and introduces the market development, future development prospects, market space, and production of each country in the world.
Chapter 9: Analysis of industrial chain, including the upstream and downstream of the industry.
Chapter 10: Concluding Insights of the report.
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Scope & coverage.
Types
- Below 99%
- Above 99%
Applications
- Consumer & Industrial
- Agrochemicals
- Polymers and Rubber
- Water Treatment
- Others
Companies covered
- Chevron Phillips Chemical
- BASF
- Sunion Chemical & Plastics
Inside the report.
1 Market Overview
- 1.1 Product Definition
- 1.2 Global Market Growth Prospects
- 1.2.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Capacity Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.4 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Market Average Price (2021-2032)
- 1.3 Assumptions and Limitations
- 1.4 Study Goals and Objectives
2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Market Dynamics
- 2.1 2-Mercaptoethanol Industry Trends
- 2.2 2-Mercaptoethanol Industry Drivers
- 2.3 2-Mercaptoethanol Industry Opportunities and Challenges
- 2.4 2-Mercaptoethanol Industry Restraints
3 2-Mercaptoethanol Market by Manufacturers
- 3.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Average Price by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.4 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Industry Manufacturers Ranking, 2024 VS 2025 VS 2026
- 3.5 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Key Manufacturers Manufacturing Sites & Headquarters
- 3.6 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Manufacturers, Product Type & Application
- 3.7 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Manufacturers Established Date
- 3.8 Market Competitive Analysis
- 3.8.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Market CR5 and HHI
- 3.8.2 Global Top 5 and 10 2-Mercaptoethanol Players Market Share by Production Value in 2025
- 3.8.3 2025 2-Mercaptoethanol Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3
4 2-Mercaptoethanol Market by Type
- 4.1 2-Mercaptoethanol Type Introduction
- 4.1.1 Below 99%
- 4.1.2 Above 99%
- 4.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Type
- 4.2.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Type (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 4.2.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.2.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Market Share by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Type
- 4.3.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Type (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 4.3.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.3.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value Market Share by Type (2021-2032)
5 2-Mercaptoethanol Market by Application
- 5.1 2-Mercaptoethanol Application Introduction
- 5.1.1 Consumer & Industrial
- 5.1.2 Agrochemicals
- 5.1.3 Polymers and Rubber
- 5.1.4 Water Treatment
- 5.1.5 Others
- 5.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Application
- 5.2.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Application (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 5.2.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.2.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Market Share by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Application
- 5.3.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Application (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 5.3.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.3.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value Market Share by Application (2021-2032)
6 Company Profiles
- 6.1 Chevron Phillips Chemical
- 6.1.1 Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Information
- 6.1.2 Chevron Phillips Chemical Business Overview
- 6.1.3 Chevron Phillips Chemical 2-Mercaptoethanol Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.1.4 Chevron Phillips Chemical 2-Mercaptoethanol Product Portfolio
- 6.1.5 Chevron Phillips Chemical Recent Developments
- 6.2 BASF
- 6.2.1 BASF Company Information
- 6.2.2 BASF Business Overview
- 6.2.3 BASF 2-Mercaptoethanol Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.2.4 BASF 2-Mercaptoethanol Product Portfolio
- 6.2.5 BASF Recent Developments
- 6.3 Sunion Chemical & Plastics
- 6.3.1 Sunion Chemical & Plastics Company Information
- 6.3.2 Sunion Chemical & Plastics Business Overview
- 6.3.3 Sunion Chemical & Plastics 2-Mercaptoethanol Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.3.4 Sunion Chemical & Plastics 2-Mercaptoethanol Product Portfolio
- 6.3.5 Sunion Chemical & Plastics Recent Developments
7 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Region
- 7.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 7.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.2.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Region (2021-2026)
- 7.2.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Forecast by Region (2027-2032)
- 7.3 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 7.4 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.4.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Region (2021-2026)
- 7.4.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value by Region (2027-2032)
- 7.5 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Market Price Analysis by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.6 Regional Production Value Trends (2021-2032)
- 7.6.1 North America 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.2 Europe 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.3 Asia-Pacific 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.4 South America 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.5 Middle East & Africa 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Value (2021-2032)
8 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Region
- 8.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Region (2021-2032)
- 8.2.1 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Region (2021-2026)
- 8.2.2 Global 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Region (2027-2032)
- 8.3 North America
- 8.3.1 North America 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.3.2 North America 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Country (2021-2032)
- 8.3.3 U.S.
- 8.3.4 Canada
- 8.3.5 Mexico
- 8.4 Europe
- 8.4.1 Europe 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.4.2 Europe 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Country (2021-2032)
- 8.4.3 Germany
- 8.4.4 France
- 8.4.5 U.K.
- 8.4.6 Italy
- 8.4.7 Netherlands
- 8.5 Asia Pacific
- 8.5.1 Asia Pacific 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.5.2 Asia Pacific 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Country (2021-2032)
- 8.5.3 China
- 8.5.4 Japan
- 8.5.5 South Korea
- 8.5.6 Southeast Asia
- 8.5.7 India
- 8.5.8 Australia
- 8.6 South America
- 8.6.1 South America 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.6.2 South America 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Country (2021-2032)
- 8.6.3 Brazil
- 8.6.4 Argentina
- 8.6.5 Chile
- 8.6.6 Colombia
- 8.7 Middle East & Africa
- 8.7.1 Middle East & Africa 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.7.2 Middle East & Africa 2-Mercaptoethanol Consumption by Country (2021-2032)
- 8.7.3 Egypt
- 8.7.4 South Africa
- 8.7.5 Israel
- 8.7.6 Türkiye
- 8.7.7 GCC Countries
9 Value Chain and Sales Channels Analysis
- 9.1 2-Mercaptoethanol Value Chain Analysis
- 9.1.1 2-Mercaptoethanol Key Raw Materials
- 9.1.2 Raw Materials Key Suppliers
- 9.1.3 Manufacturing Cost Structure
- 9.1.4 2-Mercaptoethanol Production Mode & Process
- 9.2 2-Mercaptoethanol Sales Channels Analysis
- 9.2.1 Direct Comparison with Distribution Share
- 9.2.2 2-Mercaptoethanol Distributors
- 9.2.3 2-Mercaptoethanol Customers
10 Concluding Insights
11 Appendix
- 11.1 Reasons for Doing This Study
- 11.2 Research Methodology
- 11.3 Research Process
- 11.4 Authors List of This Report
- 11.5 Data Source
- 11.5.1 Secondary Sources
- 11.5.2 Primary Sources
- 11.6 Disclaimer
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