Global Surfactants Market by Size, by Type, by Application, by Region, History and Forecast 2020-2031

Summary

A surfactant is a surface active agent that changes a liquid’s surface tension. Surfactants are the basic cleaning agent in consumer and industrial cleaning products such as detergents for washing clothes, dishes, carpets, floors, walls, as well as shampoos, lotions, toothpastes and cosmetics. Other applications include fabric softeners, lubricating ingredients, emulsifiers for spreading agricultural products, and industrial applications such as latex systems, plastics and composites.

According to APO Research, The global Surfactants market is projected to grow from US$ million in 2025 to US$ million by 2031, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of % during the forecast period.

The US & Canada market for Surfactants is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2025 through 2031.

Asia-Pacific market for Surfactants is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2025 through 2031.

The China market for Surfactants is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2025 through 2031.

Europe market for Surfactants is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2025 through 2031.

The major global manufacturers of Surfactants include BASF, Stepan, Zanyu Technology, Indorama, Solvay, Sasol, Evonik, Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. and Resun-Auway, etc. In 2024, the world's top three vendors accounted for approximately % of the revenue.

In terms of production side, this report researches the Surfactants production, growth rate, market share by manufacturers and by region (region level and country level), from 2020 to 2025, and forecast to 2031.

In terms of consumption side, this report focuses on the sales of Surfactants by region (region level and country level), by company, by type and by application. from 2020 to 2025 and forecast to 2031.

This report presents an overview of global market for Surfactants, capacity, output, revenue and price. Analyses of the global market trends, with historic market revenue or sales data for 2020 - 2024, estimates for 2025, and projections of CAGR through 2031.

This report researches the key producers of Surfactants, also provides the consumption of main regions and countries. Of the upcoming market potential for Surfactants, and key regions or countries of focus to forecast this market into various segments and sub-segments. Country specific data and market value analysis for the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, India, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Middle East, Africa, and Other Countries.

This report focuses on the Surfactants sales, revenue, market share and industry ranking of main manufacturers, data from 2020 to 2025. Identification of the major stakeholders in the global Surfactants market, and analysis of their competitive landscape and market positioning based on recent developments and segmental revenues. This report will help stakeholders to understand the competitive landscape and gain more insights and position their businesses and market strategies in a better way.

This report analyzes the segments data by type and by application, sales, revenue, and price, from 2020 to 2031. Evaluation and forecast the market size for Surfactants sales, projected growth trends, production technology, application and end-user industry.

Surfactants Segment by Company

BASF
Stepan
Zanyu Technology
Indorama
Solvay
Sasol
Evonik
Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.
Resun-Auway
Clariant
Dow
Nouryon
Kao
Croda
Sinolight
Innospec
Tianjin Angel Chemicals
Galaxy Surfactants

Surfactants Segment by Type

Anionic surfactant
Amphoteric surfactant
Cationic surfactant
Nonionic surfactant

Surfactants Segment by Application

Detergent
Textile
Personal Care
Petrochemical
Paint and Coating
Others

Surfactants 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 Surfactants 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 Surfactants 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 Surfactants.
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 Surfactants market, including product definition, global market growth prospects, production value, capacity, and average price forecasts (2020-2031).
Chapter 2: Analysis key trends, drivers, challenges, and opportunities within the global Surfactants industry.
Chapter 3: Detailed analysis of Surfactants market competition landscape. Including Surfactants manufacturers' output value, output and average price from 2020 to 2025, 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 Surfactants 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 Surfactants 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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1 Market Overview
1.1 Product Definition
1.2 Global Market Growth Prospects
1.2.1 Global Surfactants Production Value Estimates and Forecasts (2020-2031)
1.2.2 Global Surfactants Production Capacity Estimates and Forecasts (2020-2031)
1.2.3 Global Surfactants Production Estimates and Forecasts (2020-2031)
1.2.4 Global Surfactants Market Average Price (2020-2031)
1.3 Assumptions and Limitations
1.4 Study Goals and Objectives
2 Global Surfactants Market Dynamics
2.1 Surfactants Industry Trends
2.2 Surfactants Industry Drivers
2.3 Surfactants Industry Opportunities and Challenges
2.4 Surfactants Industry Restraints
3 Surfactants Market by Manufacturers
3.1 Global Surfactants Production Value by Manufacturers (2020-2025)
3.2 Global Surfactants Production by Manufacturers (2020-2025)
3.3 Global Surfactants Average Price by Manufacturers (2020-2025)
3.4 Global Surfactants Industry Manufacturers Ranking, 2023 VS 2024 VS 2025
3.5 Global Surfactants Key Manufacturers Manufacturing Sites & Headquarters
3.6 Global Surfactants Manufacturers, Product Type & Application
3.7 Global Surfactants Manufacturers Established Date
3.8 Market Competitive Analysis
3.8.1 Global Surfactants Market CR5 and HHI
3.8.2 Global Top 5 and 10 Surfactants Players Market Share by Production Value in 2024
3.8.3 2024 Surfactants Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3
4 Surfactants Market by Type
4.1 Surfactants Type Introduction
4.1.1 Anionic surfactant
4.1.2 Amphoteric surfactant
4.1.3 Cationic surfactant
4.1.4 Nonionic surfactant
4.2 Global Surfactants Production by Type
4.2.1 Global Surfactants Production by Type (2020 VS 2024 VS 2031)
4.2.2 Global Surfactants Production by Type (2020-2031)
4.2.3 Global Surfactants Production Market Share by Type (2020-2031)
4.3 Global Surfactants Production Value by Type
4.3.1 Global Surfactants Production Value by Type (2020 VS 2024 VS 2031)
4.3.2 Global Surfactants Production Value by Type (2020-2031)
4.3.3 Global Surfactants Production Value Market Share by Type (2020-2031)
5 Surfactants Market by Application
5.1 Surfactants Application Introduction
5.1.1 Detergent
5.1.2 Textile
5.1.3 Personal Care
5.1.4 Petrochemical
5.1.5 Paint and Coating
5.1.6 Others
5.2 Global Surfactants Production by Application
5.2.1 Global Surfactants Production by Application (2020 VS 2024 VS 2031)
5.2.2 Global Surfactants Production by Application (2020-2031)
5.2.3 Global Surfactants Production Market Share by Application (2020-2031)
5.3 Global Surfactants Production Value by Application
5.3.1 Global Surfactants Production Value by Application (2020 VS 2024 VS 2031)
5.3.2 Global Surfactants Production Value by Application (2020-2031)
5.3.3 Global Surfactants Production Value Market Share by Application (2020-2031)
6 Company Profiles
6.1 BASF
6.1.1 BASF Comapny Information
6.1.2 BASF Business Overview
6.1.3 BASF Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.1.4 BASF Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.1.5 BASF Recent Developments
6.2 Stepan
6.2.1 Stepan Comapny Information
6.2.2 Stepan Business Overview
6.2.3 Stepan Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.2.4 Stepan Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.2.5 Stepan Recent Developments
6.3 Zanyu Technology
6.3.1 Zanyu Technology Comapny Information
6.3.2 Zanyu Technology Business Overview
6.3.3 Zanyu Technology Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.3.4 Zanyu Technology Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.3.5 Zanyu Technology Recent Developments
6.4 Indorama
6.4.1 Indorama Comapny Information
6.4.2 Indorama Business Overview
6.4.3 Indorama Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.4.4 Indorama Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.4.5 Indorama Recent Developments
6.5 Solvay
6.5.1 Solvay Comapny Information
6.5.2 Solvay Business Overview
6.5.3 Solvay Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.5.4 Solvay Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.5.5 Solvay Recent Developments
6.6 Sasol
6.6.1 Sasol Comapny Information
6.6.2 Sasol Business Overview
6.6.3 Sasol Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.6.4 Sasol Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.6.5 Sasol Recent Developments
6.7 Evonik
6.7.1 Evonik Comapny Information
6.7.2 Evonik Business Overview
6.7.3 Evonik Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.7.4 Evonik Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.7.5 Evonik Recent Developments
6.8 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.
6.8.1 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. Comapny Information
6.8.2 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. Business Overview
6.8.3 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.8.4 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.8.5 Lion Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. Recent Developments
6.9 Resun-Auway
6.9.1 Resun-Auway Comapny Information
6.9.2 Resun-Auway Business Overview
6.9.3 Resun-Auway Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.9.4 Resun-Auway Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.9.5 Resun-Auway Recent Developments
6.10 Clariant
6.10.1 Clariant Comapny Information
6.10.2 Clariant Business Overview
6.10.3 Clariant Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.10.4 Clariant Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.10.5 Clariant Recent Developments
6.11 Dow
6.11.1 Dow Comapny Information
6.11.2 Dow Business Overview
6.11.3 Dow Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.11.4 Dow Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.11.5 Dow Recent Developments
6.12 Nouryon
6.12.1 Nouryon Comapny Information
6.12.2 Nouryon Business Overview
6.12.3 Nouryon Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.12.4 Nouryon Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.12.5 Nouryon Recent Developments
6.13 Kao
6.13.1 Kao Comapny Information
6.13.2 Kao Business Overview
6.13.3 Kao Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.13.4 Kao Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.13.5 Kao Recent Developments
6.14 Croda
6.14.1 Croda Comapny Information
6.14.2 Croda Business Overview
6.14.3 Croda Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.14.4 Croda Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.14.5 Croda Recent Developments
6.15 Sinolight
6.15.1 Sinolight Comapny Information
6.15.2 Sinolight Business Overview
6.15.3 Sinolight Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.15.4 Sinolight Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.15.5 Sinolight Recent Developments
6.16 Innospec
6.16.1 Innospec Comapny Information
6.16.2 Innospec Business Overview
6.16.3 Innospec Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.16.4 Innospec Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.16.5 Innospec Recent Developments
6.17 Tianjin Angel Chemicals
6.17.1 Tianjin Angel Chemicals Comapny Information
6.17.2 Tianjin Angel Chemicals Business Overview
6.17.3 Tianjin Angel Chemicals Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.17.4 Tianjin Angel Chemicals Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.17.5 Tianjin Angel Chemicals Recent Developments
6.18 Galaxy Surfactants
6.18.1 Galaxy Surfactants Comapny Information
6.18.2 Galaxy Surfactants Business Overview
6.18.3 Galaxy Surfactants Surfactants Production, Value and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.18.4 Galaxy Surfactants Surfactants Product Portfolio
6.18.5 Galaxy Surfactants Recent Developments
7 Global Surfactants Production by Region
7.1 Global Surfactants Production by Region: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
7.2 Global Surfactants Production by Region (2020-2031)
7.2.1 Global Surfactants Production by Region: 2020-2025
7.2.2 Global Surfactants Production Forecast by Region: 2026-2031
7.3 Global Surfactants Production by Region: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
7.4 Global Surfactants Production Value by Region (2020-2031)
7.4.1 Global Surfactants Production Value by Region: 2020-2025
7.4.2 Global Surfactants Production Value by Region (2026-2031)
7.5 Global Surfactants Market Price Analysis by Region (2020-2031)
7.6 Regional Production Value Trends (2020-2031)
7.6.1 North America Surfactants Production Value (2020-2031)
7.6.2 Europe Surfactants Production Value (2020-2031)
7.6.3 Asia-Pacific Surfactants Production Value (2020-2031)
7.6.4 South America Surfactants Production Value (2020-2031)
7.6.5 Middle East & Africa Surfactants Production Value (2020-2031)
8 Global Surfactants Consumption by Region
8.1 Global Surfactants Consumption by Region: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.2 Global Surfactants Consumption by Region (2020-2031)
8.2.1 Global Surfactants Consumption by Region (2020-2025)
8.2.2 Global Surfactants Consumption by Region (2026-2031)
8.3 North America
8.3.1 North America Surfactants Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.3.2 North America Surfactants Consumption by Country (2020-2031)
8.3.3 U.S.
8.3.4 Canada
8.3.5 Mexico
8.4 Europe
8.4.1 Europe Surfactants Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.4.2 Europe Surfactants Consumption by Country (2020-2031)
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 Surfactants Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.5.2 Asia Pacific Surfactants Consumption by Country (2020-2031)
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 Surfactants Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.6.2 South America Surfactants Consumption by Country (2020-2031)
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 Surfactants Consumption Growth Rate by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.7.2 Middle East & Africa Surfactants Consumption by Country (2020-2031)
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 Surfactants Value Chain Analysis
9.1.1 Surfactants Key Raw Materials
9.1.2 Raw Materials Key Suppliers
9.1.3 Manufacturing Cost Structure
9.1.4 Surfactants Production Mode & Process
9.2 Surfactants Sales Channels Analysis
9.2.1 Direct Comparison with Distribution Share
9.2.2 Surfactants Distributors
9.2.3 Surfactants 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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