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SBS
Styrene-butadiene-styrene, or SBS, is a hard rubber that's used for things like the soles of shoes, tire treads, and other places where durability is important. It's a type of copolymer called a block copolymer. Its backbone chain is made up of three segments. The first is a long chain of polystyrene, the middle is a long chain of polybutadiene, and the last segment is another long section of polystyrene.
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Understand the product.
Styrene-butadiene-styrene, or SBS, is a hard rubber that's used for things like the soles of shoes, tire treads, and other places where durability is important. It's a type of copolymer called a block copolymer. Its backbone chain is made up of three segments. The first is a long chain of polystyrene, the middle is a long chain of polybutadiene, and the last segment is another long section of polystyrene.
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Market Structure
Global SBS Market by Size, by Type, by Application, by Region, History and Forecast 2021-2032
Market perspective
Styrene-butadiene-styrene, or SBS, is a hard rubber that's used for things like the soles of shoes, tire treads, and other places where durability is important. It's a type of copolymer called a block copolymer. Its backbone chain is made up of three segments. The first is a long chain of polystyrene, the middle is a long chain of polybutadiene, and the last segment is another long section of polystyrene.
Global SBS key players include LCY Chemical, Sinopec, Kraton, etc. Global top three manufacturers hold a share over 50%.
APAC is the largest market, with a share about 55%, followed by Middle East, and Europe, both have a share over 40 percent.
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In terms of product, Non-oil-extended SBS is the largest segment, with a share about 65%. And in terms of application, the largest application is Footwear, followed by Asphalt Modification, etc.
The report provides an overview of the global SBS 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 SBS 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 SBS 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 SBS market size, projected growth trends, production technologies, key applications, and end-use industries.
SBS Segment by Company
LCY Chemical
Kraton
Dynasol
LG Chem
Versalis
Sibur
KKPC
Asahi Kasei
TSRC
Chimei
Sinopec
CNPC
Keyuan Petrochemicals
Jusage
SBS Segment by Type
Liner SBS
Radical SBS
SBS Segment by Application
Footwear
Asphalt Modification
Polymer Modification
Adhesives
Others
SBS 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 SBS 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 SBS 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 SBS.
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 SBS 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 SBS industry.
Chapter 3: Detailed analysis of SBS market competition landscape. Including SBS 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 SBS 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 SBS 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
- Liner SBS
- Radical SBS
Applications
- Footwear
- Asphalt Modification
- Polymer Modification
- Adhesives
- Others
Companies covered
- LCY Chemical
- Kraton
- Dynasol
- LG Chem
- Versalis
- Sibur
- KKPC
- Asahi Kasei
- TSRC
- Chimei
- Sinopec
- CNPC
- Keyuan Petrochemicals
- Jusage
Inside the report.
1 Market Overview
- 1.1 Product Definition
- 1.2 Global Market Growth Prospects
- 1.2.1 Global SBS Production Value Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.2 Global SBS Production Capacity Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.3 Global SBS Production Estimates and Forecasts (2021-2032)
- 1.2.4 Global SBS Market Average Price (2021-2032)
- 1.3 Assumptions and Limitations
- 1.4 Study Goals and Objectives
2 Global SBS Market Dynamics
- 2.1 SBS Industry Trends
- 2.2 SBS Industry Drivers
- 2.3 SBS Industry Opportunities and Challenges
- 2.4 SBS Industry Restraints
3 SBS Market by Manufacturers
- 3.1 Global SBS Production Value by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.2 Global SBS Production by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.3 Global SBS Average Price by Manufacturers (2021-2026)
- 3.4 Global SBS Industry Manufacturers Ranking, 2024 VS 2025 VS 2026
- 3.5 Global SBS Key Manufacturers Manufacturing Sites & Headquarters
- 3.6 Global SBS Manufacturers, Product Type & Application
- 3.7 Global SBS Manufacturers Established Date
- 3.8 Market Competitive Analysis
- 3.8.1 Global SBS Market CR5 and HHI
- 3.8.2 Global Top 5 and 10 SBS Players Market Share by Production Value in 2025
- 3.8.3 2025 SBS Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3
4 SBS Market by Type
- 4.1 SBS Type Introduction
- 4.1.1 Liner SBS
- 4.1.2 Radical SBS
- 4.2 Global SBS Production by Type
- 4.2.1 Global SBS Production by Type (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 4.2.2 Global SBS Production by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.2.3 Global SBS Production Market Share by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.3 Global SBS Production Value by Type
- 4.3.1 Global SBS Production Value by Type (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 4.3.2 Global SBS Production Value by Type (2021-2032)
- 4.3.3 Global SBS Production Value Market Share by Type (2021-2032)
5 SBS Market by Application
- 5.1 SBS Application Introduction
- 5.1.1 Footwear
- 5.1.2 Asphalt Modification
- 5.1.3 Polymer Modification
- 5.1.4 Adhesives
- 5.1.5 Others
- 5.2 Global SBS Production by Application
- 5.2.1 Global SBS Production by Application (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 5.2.2 Global SBS Production by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.2.3 Global SBS Production Market Share by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.3 Global SBS Production Value by Application
- 5.3.1 Global SBS Production Value by Application (2021 VS 2025 VS 2032)
- 5.3.2 Global SBS Production Value by Application (2021-2032)
- 5.3.3 Global SBS Production Value Market Share by Application (2021-2032)
6 Company Profiles
- 6.1 LCY Chemical
- 6.1.1 LCY Chemical Company Information
- 6.1.2 LCY Chemical Business Overview
- 6.1.3 LCY Chemical SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.1.4 LCY Chemical SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.1.5 LCY Chemical Recent Developments
- 6.2 Kraton
- 6.2.1 Kraton Company Information
- 6.2.2 Kraton Business Overview
- 6.2.3 Kraton SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.2.4 Kraton SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.2.5 Kraton Recent Developments
- 6.3 Dynasol
- 6.3.1 Dynasol Company Information
- 6.3.2 Dynasol Business Overview
- 6.3.3 Dynasol SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.3.4 Dynasol SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.3.5 Dynasol Recent Developments
- 6.4 LG Chem
- 6.4.1 LG Chem Company Information
- 6.4.2 LG Chem Business Overview
- 6.4.3 LG Chem SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.4.4 LG Chem SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.4.5 LG Chem Recent Developments
- 6.5 Versalis
- 6.5.1 Versalis Company Information
- 6.5.2 Versalis Business Overview
- 6.5.3 Versalis SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.5.4 Versalis SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.5.5 Versalis Recent Developments
- 6.6 Sibur
- 6.6.1 Sibur Company Information
- 6.6.2 Sibur Business Overview
- 6.6.3 Sibur SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.6.4 Sibur SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.6.5 Sibur Recent Developments
- 6.7 KKPC
- 6.7.1 KKPC Company Information
- 6.7.2 KKPC Business Overview
- 6.7.3 KKPC SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.7.4 KKPC SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.7.5 KKPC Recent Developments
- 6.8 Asahi Kasei
- 6.8.1 Asahi Kasei Company Information
- 6.8.2 Asahi Kasei Business Overview
- 6.8.3 Asahi Kasei SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.8.4 Asahi Kasei SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.8.5 Asahi Kasei Recent Developments
- 6.9 TSRC
- 6.9.1 TSRC Company Information
- 6.9.2 TSRC Business Overview
- 6.9.3 TSRC SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.9.4 TSRC SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.9.5 TSRC Recent Developments
- 6.10 Chimei
- 6.10.1 Chimei Company Information
- 6.10.2 Chimei Business Overview
- 6.10.3 Chimei SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.10.4 Chimei SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.10.5 Chimei Recent Developments
- 6.11 Sinopec
- 6.11.1 Sinopec Company Information
- 6.11.2 Sinopec Business Overview
- 6.11.3 Sinopec SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.11.4 Sinopec SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.11.5 Sinopec Recent Developments
- 6.12 CNPC
- 6.12.1 CNPC Company Information
- 6.12.2 CNPC Business Overview
- 6.12.3 CNPC SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.12.4 CNPC SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.12.5 CNPC Recent Developments
- 6.13 Keyuan Petrochemicals
- 6.13.1 Keyuan Petrochemicals Company Information
- 6.13.2 Keyuan Petrochemicals Business Overview
- 6.13.3 Keyuan Petrochemicals SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.13.4 Keyuan Petrochemicals SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.13.5 Keyuan Petrochemicals Recent Developments
- 6.14 Jusage
- 6.14.1 Jusage Company Information
- 6.14.2 Jusage Business Overview
- 6.14.3 Jusage SBS Production, Value and Gross Margin (2021-2026)
- 6.14.4 Jusage SBS Product Portfolio
- 6.14.5 Jusage Recent Developments
7 Global SBS Production by Region
- 7.1 Global SBS Production by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 7.2 Global SBS Production by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.2.1 Global SBS Production by Region (2021-2026)
- 7.2.2 Global SBS Production Forecast by Region (2027-2032)
- 7.3 Global SBS Production by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 7.4 Global SBS Production Value by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.4.1 Global SBS Production Value by Region (2021-2026)
- 7.4.2 Global SBS Production Value by Region (2027-2032)
- 7.5 Global SBS Market Price Analysis by Region (2021-2032)
- 7.6 Regional Production Value Trends (2021-2032)
- 7.6.1 North America SBS Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.2 Europe SBS Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.3 Asia-Pacific SBS Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.4 South America SBS Production Value (2021-2032)
- 7.6.5 Middle East & Africa SBS Production Value (2021-2032)
8 Global SBS Consumption by Region
- 8.1 Global SBS Consumption by Region: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.2 Global SBS Consumption by Region (2021-2032)
- 8.2.1 Global SBS Consumption by Region (2021-2026)
- 8.2.2 Global SBS Consumption by Region (2027-2032)
- 8.3 North America
- 8.3.1 North America SBS Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.3.2 North America SBS 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 SBS Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.4.2 Europe SBS 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 SBS Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.5.2 Asia Pacific SBS 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 SBS Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.6.2 South America SBS 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 SBS Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2021 VS 2025 VS 2032
- 8.7.2 Middle East & Africa SBS 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 SBS Value Chain Analysis
- 9.1.1 SBS Key Raw Materials
- 9.1.2 Raw Materials Key Suppliers
- 9.1.3 Manufacturing Cost Structure
- 9.1.4 SBS Production Mode & Process
- 9.2 SBS Sales Channels Analysis
- 9.2.1 Direct Comparison with Distribution Share
- 9.2.2 SBS Distributors
- 9.2.3 SBS 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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