Global Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Aluminum Alkyls is a large class of metal aluminum organic compounds formed by the direct combination of alkyl and aluminum. Aluminum alkyls refer to a family of organic aluminum that can include trimethyl, triethyl, tripropyl, and triisobutyl aluminum. They are spontaneously flammable in air and react violently with water, they are also corrosive. They can cause severe burns to the skin, eyes, respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal tract. Aluminum alkyls are often used as catalysts in the polymerization of olefins and dienes. They are effective alkylating agents and are important in pharmaceuticals and chemical synthesis.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market finds that the global Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market reached a value of USD 629.49 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 760.72 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 3.21% during the forecast period.

Fierce competition in the market

The market prospect of Aluminum Alkyls is broad, and the competition among suppliers will intensify. Suppliers will compete on the basis of pricing, value-added benefits and service combinations to provide a competitive advantage in the market. During the forecast period, this competition is expected to intensify as product expansion increases. At present, in addition to improving product purity and stability and other competitive strengths, market expansion has also become active. In 2019, Nouryon has made a series of investments at its metal alkyls plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to improve efficiency and increase capacity. In 2020, Nouryon has entered into an agreement to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminum (TEAL) business of Sasol.

Importance of Aluminum Alkyls

As a kind of organic synthesis reagent, Aluminum Alkyls have been widely used in industry. At present, in addition to being widely used in polymer synthesis catalysts, it is also a catalyst for olefin oligomerization and dimerization. Aluminum Alkyls are used in the synthesis of fine chemicals, pharmaceutical production, and polymer production. With the development of global industrialization, the demand for fine products has increased, and the demand for high-efficiency production has also increased. Aluminum Alkyls can increase the yield of polymers, and polymers occupy an important position in global production and life, which will promote the demand for Aluminum Alkyls.

Aluminum Alkyls are used in a wide range of applications. The main application area of Aluminum Alkyls is the polymerization of olefins and dienes through the Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalyst system. Aluminum Alkyls are also used as a catalyst in various related technologies, which are an extension of Ziegler chemistry. These include oligomerization of ethylene, dimerization and cyclodimerization of olefins and dienes, and ring-opening polymerization. Aluminum Alkyls are used to produce polypropylene, polyethylene and several types of synthetic rubber. They are then used in consumer products such as plastic packaging, toys and car parts.

Region Overview:

In 2021, the share of the Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market in Asia-Pacific stood at 31.54%.

Company Overview:

Nouryon is one of the major players operating in the Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market, holding a share of 21.42% in 2022.

Nouryon

Nouryon Holding B.V. doing business as Nouryon, provides specialty chemical products. The Company offers cellulosics, salt, organic peroxides, chlor-alkali, bleaching chemicals, expandable microspheres, and surfactants, as well as paper, plastics, building materials, food, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products.

Lanxess

The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics.

Segmentation Overview:

As for product types, the Triethyl Aluminum segment held the largest market share in 2021.

Diethylaluminum Chloride

Diethylaluminium chloride, abbreviated DEAC, is an organoaluminium compound. Although usually given the chemical formula (C2H5)2AlCl, it exists as a dimer, it is a precursor to Ziegler-Natta catalysts employed for the production of polyolefins. The compound is also a Lewis acid, useful in organic synthesis. The compound is a colorless waxy solid but is usually handled as a solution in hydrocarbon solvents. It is highly reactive, even pyrophoric. Diethylaluminum chloride (DEAC) is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations. Other applications include use in alkylation reactions and as a catalyst component in linear oligomerization and cyclization of unsaturated hydrocarbons.

Diethylaluminum Ethoxide

Diethylaluminum Ethoxide is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin polymerizations. Diethylaluminum Ethoxide is a Ziegler-Natta catalyst used for the manufacture of high density and linear low density polyethylene, polypropylene, and in the manufacture of synthetic elastomers.

Diisobutylaluminum Hydride

Diisobutylaluminum hydride is an excellent reducing agent, finding use in pharmaceutical, flavor, fragrance and other fine chemical processes requiring an active hydrogen reducing agent. Most applications involve reduction of carbonyl functionalities to alcohols or aldehydes and nitrogen functionalities to amines. It is soluble in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, as well as ether-type solvents.

Ethyl Aluminum Dichloride

Ethyl Aluminum Dichloride (EADC) is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations. Other applications include use in alkylation reactions and as a catalyst component in linear oligomerization and cyclization of unsaturated hydrocarbons. EADC is an aluminum alkyl used as raw material for the production of Ziegler-Natta catalysts and in dimerization and oligomerization of olefins.

Triisobutyl Aluminum

Triisobutylaluminum (TIBA) is a pyrophoric liquid supplied undiluted or as a solution in a compatible hydrocarbon solvent. Triisobutylaluminum (TIBA) is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations. Other applications include use as a reducing agent with selective activity in certain organic reduction reactions and as a chemical intermediate.

Tri-n-butyl Aluminum

Tri-n-butyl Aluminum (TNBA) is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations. Other applications include use in alkylation reactions and as a catalyst component in linear oligomerization and cyclization of unsaturated hydrocarbons. Tri-n-butyl Aluminum is a strong reducing agent. May react rapidly and dangerously with oxygen and other oxidizing agents, even weak ones. Thus likely to ignite on contact with alcohols. Incompatible with acids, alcohols, amines, and aldehydes.

Trimethyl Aluminum

Trimethyl Aluminum (TMA) is the most reactive and volatile among all organoaluminium compounds. It is extremely pyrophoric. It acts as a highly reactive reducing and alkylating agent. Trimethyl Aluminum (TMA) can be used as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations, and has found applications in alkylation reactions.

Triethylaluminum

Triethylaluminum (TEA) is used primarily as a catalyst component in Ziegler-Natta type systems for olefin and diene polymerizations. It is also used in ethylene oligomerization to produce olefins and, in chain growth of ethylene, to produce longer chain aluminum alkyls, which are then converted to primary alcohols or other products.

Application Overview:

By application, the Catalyst Component segment occupied the biggest share from 2017 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market covered in Chapter 3:

Lianyungang Tenghong Chemical
Liaoning Xiangyang
Shanghai Yound
Gulbrandsen
Lanxess
Tosoh Finechem
Shangyu Hualun
Albemarle
Jiangsu Yongjian Chemical
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Yantai Lianli Chemical
Nouryon

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Triethyl Aluminum
Diethylaluminum Chloride
Diethylaluminum Ethoxide
Diisobutylaluminum Hydride
Ethyl Aluminum Dichloride
Triisobutyl Aluminum
Tri-n-butyl Aluminum
Trimethyl Aluminum
Others

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Aluminum Alkyls Organometallics market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Catalyst Component
Fine Chemicals
Pharmaceutical
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)