Rhein Chemie Rubber Additives Product Range into the Rubber Market

The rubber additives product range from Rhein Chemie offers a full spectrum that works from the development of the compound to the production of the finished component. In partnership with Brenntag Rubbers & Polymers team, the product group offers high-quality solutions for all the challenges of rubber processing for tires and technical rubber goods and includes a broad range of pre-dispersed chemicals, processing promoters, vulcanization and filler activators, anti-sun check waxes, release agents, tire marking inks and high-performance bladders.


Key brands and product groups:


Rhenogran®

- polymer-bound chemicals and additives

Aktiplast® and Aflux®

- processing promoters

Vulcuren® and Perkalink®

- specialty chemicals

Rhenodiv® and Rhenomark®

- release agents and tire marking paints

Rhenoshape®

- high-performance bladders for tire manufacturing


Rhein Chemie produces a large variety of products from a single source for all applications in the rubber processing industry and also supports important developments in this sector through innovation. In the products Rhenogran® CLD-80, Aflux® 37 and Vulcuren®, for example, Rhein Chemie offers the solutions needed to manufacture “green tires” – tires that provide the answer to growing demand for sustainable mobility worldwide.


Rhein Chemie further produces innovative solutions for the plastics, colourants and personal care industries, such as CNT emulsions (Rhenofit®) and zinc oxide (Bayoxide®).


Rhein Chemie is the world leading producer of high-performance bladders, (Rhenoshape®), for tire manufacturing. This business has been expanded since 2012 through significant investment and acquisitions, and today comprises four production sites. Rhein Chemie is setting new standards in process optimisation and tire manufacturing particularly with a fully automated permanent bladder coating process and working with the Brenntag Rubber & Polymers team to bring these products to you.


Industries and areas of application:


  • Tire industry
  • Technical rubber goods
  • Automotive
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Personal care
  • Footwear
  • Construction

For further information, contact our team at rubber@brenntag.co.uk