Plasticizer Manufacturers and Suppliers: 12 Producers and Their Brand Lines

Twelve plasticizer manufacturers appear in this directory with a headquarters, brand line or named grade this site can verify against a primary source, inside a global plasticizer market that consumes 8.4 million tonnes a year (European Plasticisers, May 2020 factsheet). Plasticizers are the largest single functional group in the plastic additive market by weight, holding 34 % of global consumption ahead of fillers at 28 %, and more than 85 % of European plasticizer volume goes into flexible PVC. The hard part of sourcing one is rarely finding a producer name: it is matching a chemical class, ortho-phthalate, non-ortho-phthalate terephthalate, cyclohexanoate or trimellitate, to a supplier that can confirm the grade's REACH registration and food-contact status for the destination market.

This directory lists the 12 plasticizer producers this site can verify, maps each one to the plasticizer chemistry it makes, sets out 5 checks for choosing a supplier and shows how to request a quote. Plasticizer manufacturers are one category inside the site's plastic additive manufacturers and suppliers directory, and the individual chemistry of every grade named here is defined in depth on the plasticizers family page. The directory carries no paid placement: a company appears because a primary source confirms it, not because it paid for a listing.

What Is a Plasticizer Supplier?#

A plasticizer supplier is any company that sells a plasticizing ester, chlorinated paraffin or epoxidized oil to a plastics converter, and in practice that covers three different businesses: the manufacturer that synthesizes the ester, the compounder that builds it into a ready-to-mould PVC compound, and the distributor that stores and resells it without making anything. Twelve manufacturers appear in this directory today, spanning ortho-phthalates, non-ortho-phthalate terephthalates, cyclohexanoates and specialty trimellitates.

A buyer's purchase order looks the same regardless of which of the three roles issues it, which is why a "plasticizer supplier" search returns chemical producers, compounders and distributors with equal frequency. The 43 families of plastic additives are defined on the reference page's complete list; this page starts from the company that sells one specific family, plasticizers, rather than from the chemistry itself.

Manufacturer, compounder or distributor?#

The three plasticizer supply roles differ in what they actually sell: a neat ester, a finished compound or a repackaged drum. Each has a named example in this directory.

• Manufacturer. Synthesizes the plasticizer ester itself, for example Eastman making Eastman 168 (DOTP) in Kingsport, Tennessee, or BASF making Hexamoll DINCH in Ludwigshafen.
• Compounder. Buys plasticizer from a manufacturer and builds it into a ready-to-mould PVC compound that already contains it, for example Teknor Apex, headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
• Distributor. Buys, stores and resells a plasticizer without making it, the same role Brenntag, Univar Solutions, IMCD and Azelis play across the wider plastic additive market; no distributor in this directory's source library is confirmed to specialize in plasticizers alone.

What changes in the quote is the unit of comparison: a manufacturer prices the neat ester per tonne, a compounder prices a finished compound that already contains the plasticizer at a stated dosage, and a distributor adds a service margin for storage and regional access. The chemistry behind each grade, from ortho-phthalates to non-ortho-phthalate terephthalates, is explained in full on the plasticizers for plastics family page.

Plasticizer Manufacturers and Brands: The Directory#

The 12 plasticizer manufacturers below are grouped by the chemical class each is verified to supply: ortho-phthalates, the non-ortho-phthalate terephthalate DOTP, the cyclohexanoate DINCH, and specialty or trimellitate esters. Table 1 lists the headquarters where our source library confirms one, the brand lines attributed to each company, and the featured grades this directory can verify against a primary source.

Table 1. Plasticizer manufacturers and brand lines

An empty or "not confirmed" cell means the value is not yet verified against a primary source on file; it is never filled with an estimate. Profile pages for all 12 companies are in production and none is published yet, so company names above carry no link until their own page goes live.

Which Plasticizer Type Does Each Producer Supply?#

Four plasticizer chemistries account for nearly all of the volume named in this directory: ortho-phthalates (DINP, DIDP), the non-ortho-phthalate terephthalate DOTP, the cyclohexanoate DINCH, and low-volatility trimellitates such as TOTM. A buyer who already knows which chemistry a formulation needs can start from the class instead of the company name.

Ortho-phthalates remain the largest confirmed group: BASF sells DINP as Palatinol N and DIDP as Palatinol Z, Evonik sells DINP as Vestinol 9, and ExxonMobil sells both as Jayflex DINP and Jayflex DIDP. All three companies supply substances among the 8 ortho-phthalates the FDA still authorizes as food-contact plasticizers after its final rule of 20 May 2022 (87 FR 31080), and DINP and DIDP together carry a group specific migration limit of 1.8 mg/kg under EU Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 since Regulation (EU) 2023/1442. Neither substance sits on the REACH SVHC Candidate List. The full chemistry and regulatory matrix for both esters is on the phthalate plasticizers page.

DOTP, the terephthalate isomer that is chemically a phthalate ester but not an ortho-phthalate, is manufactured by Eastman under the Eastman 168 trade name from Kingsport, Tennessee, and by Nan Ya Plastics, the second manufacturer PubChem's registration record attributes to the substance (CAS 6422-86-2). DOTP carries an EU food-contact specific migration limit of 60 mg/kg (FCM 798) and is not an SVHC or a REACH Annex XIV or Annex XVII entry.

Perstorp sells its own non-phthalate line under the Pevalen brand from Malmo, Sweden, and Lanxess sells Mesamoll, Adimoll and Uniplex from Cologne, Germany; this directory's substance our sources do not yet confirm the exact chemistry behind each of those five brand names beyond the trade name itself, so none is classified further here. No manufacturer of TOTM, the highest-temperature plasticizer in this directory's substance records, is confirmed in our source library, so the grade is named without a producer.

The cyclohexanoate DINCH closes the four-chemistry set: BASF sells it as Hexamoll DINCH and Evonik sells the same chemistry as Elatur CH, both hydrogenated from the corresponding ortho-phthalate structure to lower polarity and improve low-temperature flexibility. DINCH is not an SVHC and carries no individual EU food-contact limit beyond the 60 mg/kg group restriction (FCM 775). Its full identity and dosage data are covered on the non-phthalate plasticizers page.

How Do You Choose a Plasticizer Supplier? 5 Checks#

Choosing a plasticizer supplier takes 5 checks, and only the first one is about the company itself: the other four are about the grade's chemistry, its paperwork and its dosage fit. The order below runs from the company to the regulatory detail furthest from view.

1. Confirm the role. Establish whether the company manufactures the ester or compounds and resells it, because the answer changes what a quoted price actually buys.
2. Match the chemical class to the application. Ortho-phthalates, non-ortho-phthalate terephthalates, cyclohexanoates and trimellitates are not interchangeable at a fixed dosage: flexible PVC typically carries 5-65 wt% plasticizer (Wiesinger et al., Environmental Science & Technology, 2024), and below about 15 phr the compound can stiffen instead of soften, an effect known as antiplasticization.
3. Check the REACH registration. A registration under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 belongs to a named legal entity and substance, so it applies to a specific registrant, not to the ester in general.
4. Confirm the food-contact route. In the EU, only plasticizers on the Union list of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 may be used in food-contact plastics, each within its own specific migration limit and the 60 mg/kg group restriction 32; in the US the route is a 21 CFR listing, and the FDA's final rule of 20 May 2022 narrowed authorized ortho-phthalate plasticizers to exactly 8 substances.
5. Screen against the restriction lists. Check the grade against the REACH SVHC Candidate List and Annex XVII entry 51, which caps DEHP, DBP, BBP and DIBP at 0.1 % by weight, individually or combined, in the plasticized material of any article since 7 July 2020 (Regulation (EU) 2018/2005).

The additive itself is chosen before the supplier, and the how to select plastic additives framework covers that step in full.

How to verify REACH, food-contact and SVHC status#

A supplier's regulatory status is checked per legal entity and per grade, not per substance, so two suppliers of the same generic plasticizer can carry different compliance status in the same market. REACH registration belongs to the registrant that placed the ester on the EU market under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, a duty explained in full on the REACH and plastic additives page.

Food-contact status follows the same per-entity logic on both sides of the Atlantic. The EU route runs through the Union list of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, where DEHP carries a specific migration limit of 0.6 mg/kg and DINP and DIDP share a combined limit of 1.8 mg/kg, both set by Regulation (EU) 2023/1442 since 1 August 2023; the US route runs through a 21 CFR listing, and only 8 ortho-phthalates (DINP, DIDP, DEHP, DCHP, BPBG, DEP, EPEG and DIOP) remain authorized as plasticizers after the FDA's final rule of 20 May 2022 (87 FR 31080). The notification route is mapped in full on the FDA food contact rules page.

A supplier's catalogue can lag behind a restriction change. DEHP, DBP, BBP and DIBP have been capped at 0.1 % by weight in the plasticized material of any article since 7 July 2020 under REACH Annex XVII entry 51 (Regulation (EU) 2018/2005), and DEHP, DBP and BBP were added to the SVHC Candidate List on 28 October 2008 for reproductive toxicity, with endocrine-disrupting properties added later for several of the four. Every plasticizer grade named on this site is checked against the SVHC Candidate List before publication.

Where Are Plasticizer Manufacturers Located?#

Confirmed plasticizer manufacturing headquarters in this directory cluster in two regions, Germany and the southeastern United States, while five producers, including three with a strong Asian market presence, carry no verified headquarters in our source library yet. BASF (Ludwigshafen), Evonik (Essen) and Lanxess (Cologne) put 3 of the 12 producers in Germany, Perstorp (Malmo) adds Sweden, and Eastman (Kingsport, Tennessee) and Teknor Apex (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) put 2 more in the United States.

Table 2. Confirmed headquarters by region

Plasticizer manufacturers in Asia#

LG Chem, Aekyung and Nan Ya Plastics are three of this directory's twelve plasticizer producers with a strong Asian market presence, though none has a headquarters city confirmed against a primary source here. Trade flow data fills part of the gap left by the missing headquarters facts: China's DOP price fell by RMB 1,700 to 1,750 per tonne between January and November 2025, while Chinese DOP imports fell 42 % and DOP exports rose 35 % year on year over the same nine-month window, according to ResourceWise's 2025 review of the global plasticizer market.

The United States runs the opposite trade pattern: it holds antidumping duties on DOTP imported from Turkey, Malaysia, Taiwan and Poland, and a 15 % US tariff applies to DINP imported from Evonik's Oxeno plant in the EU. Both measures reroute volume toward domestic and non-tariffed producers rather than toward the lowest-cost one, a pattern the site's price guides track by substance.

What Do Plasticizers Cost?#

No plasticizer grade has a published per-tonne price in this directory, because every price-reporting service that covers organic esters, ICIS, S&P Global Commodity Insights, ChemAnalyst and SunSirs among them, sits behind a paywall this site does not reproduce. Price direction is available where a free source states it.

China's DOP price fell by RMB 1,700 to 1,750 per tonne between January and November 2025, and Chinese DOP imports fell 42 % year on year while exports rose 35 % over the same period (January to September 2025), according to ResourceWise's Global Plasticizers Market 2025 Review. The same source gives the 2026 outlook as ample supply against flat demand, with Chinese DOTP capacity expanding and new DINP capacity coming online at Deza. Global plasticizer demand is forecast to grow 2.3 % a year through the rest of the decade, per S&P Global's Chemical Economics Handbook of December 2024, and phthalate plasticizers are forecast to hold 52.4 % of that global volume by 2029.

The full price series and trade-measure detail for DOP, DOTP, DINP and their alternatives are tracked on the plasticizer prices page.

How Do You Request a Quote for Plasticizers?#

A plasticizer quote is only comparable across suppliers if every one prices the same thing, which takes 6 items in the request: the CAS number, the product form, the polymer and dosage target, the annual volume, the compliance route and the destination country.

• CAS number and generic name, not the trade name, so DOTP (CAS 6422-86-2) is never confused with a DINP grade sold under a similar-sounding brand.
• Product form, since almost every plasticizer ships as a clear liquid ester, though viscosity and pour point differ by chemistry.
• Polymer and dosage target, expressed in phr for a PVC compound or wt% for the finished article, since the same Shore A hardness needs a different loading for DINP than for DOTP.
• Annual volume, because pricing tiers and minimum order quantities depend on it.
• Compliance route required, whether a Union list entry under Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 or a specific 21 CFR section.
• Destination country, since the applicable regulatory route and any antidumping duty change by market.

Send one request to several verified suppliers through the plastic additive supplier finder, which routes a plasticizer request to manufacturers, compounders and distributors at once.

How Big Is the Plasticizer Market?#

Plasticizers make up 34 % of global plastic additive consumption by weight, and the market consumes 8.4 million tonnes a year worldwide, according to European Plasticisers' May 2020 factsheet. Wikipedia's Plasticizer entry records a lower 7.5 million tonnes for 2017, and the two figures sit within the normal spread between sources that scope the market slightly differently; more than 85 % of European plasticizer volume goes into flexible PVC, a figure European Plasticisers states directly, rather than the unverified "almost 90 %" claim repeated on some supplier sites.

Global phthalate production reached 5.5 million tonnes in 2015, up from about 2.7 million tonnes in the 1980s (Holland, OECD, 2018), and DEHP alone, still the most-used single plasticizer as of 2018, reached an estimated 3.24 million tonnes of global production that year (Ceresana estimate, cited via Wikipedia). This plasticizer directory sits inside a larger manufacturers and suppliers directory that covers every additive family; the full plastic additive manufacturers and suppliers directory lists flame retardant, antioxidant, filler and masterbatch producers alongside these 12.

How US and EU trade measures affect plasticizer supply#

US antidumping duties on DOTP imported from Turkey, Malaysia, Taiwan and Poland, and a 15 % US tariff on DINP imported from Evonik's Oxeno plant in the EU, are the two trade measures with the most effect on plasticizer supply today. Both measures move price and sourcing decisions more than any single chemical regulation does, according to ResourceWise's 2025 review of the global plasticizer market.

China's position illustrates the same dynamic from the supply side: the country's DOP price fell RMB 1,700 to 1,750 per tonne between January and November 2025, DOP imports fell 42 % year on year and DOP exports rose 35 % over the same nine-month window, while Chinese producers expanded DOTP capacity and Deza added new DINP capacity elsewhere. ResourceWise's outlook for 2026 is ample supply against flat demand, a combination that typically keeps price pressure on producers rather than on buyers.