Footwear to become increasingly important to growing SBR market

01/07/2015
A new report from US research company Global View says the styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) market will grow steadily to reach a value of more than $23 billion a year by 2020.

In terms of volume, the report says the market size was just over 5,000 kilo-tonnes in 2013, but that this will grow by more than 6% per year over the next five years. It also says that, although footwear was a small market segment for SBR producers in 2013, the importance to them of footwear will also grow substantially.