North America Pine Chemicals Market Size & Outlook, 2025-2033

North America Pine Chemicals Market Size

The North America pine chemicals market size was valued at USD 3.82 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach from USD 4.03 billion in 2025 to USD 6.23 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 5.6% during the forecast period (2025-2033).

The Pine Chemistry industry creates goods that are beneficial to our daily lives while also being environmentally sustainable. The forestry industry provides raw materials for the Pine Chemistry industry (wood, pulp and paper processes). Crude tall oil, black liquor soap, crude sulphate turpentine, and sawdust are co-products. Using these co-products is a classic example of attempting to make the most efficient use of resources by utilising every part of a cut tree.

Here are just a few of the many ways Pine Chemistry affects our life daily:

Sidewalks and roads. Pine chemistry is used to create asphalt, concrete, and cement, which are essential in constructing roads, highways, walkways, and buildings.

Purification systems for air and water. Sawdust-derived activated carbon acts as a natural air filter for automobile emissions and drinking water.

Coatings and paints. Pine chemicals are used to make paints and varnishes, which aid in renovating homes and painting rooms and offices.

Detergents and soaps. Pine Chemistry is a critical component of natural soaps and detergents, essential household goods.

Adhesives. Pine Chemistry is used to make adhesives, utilised in various applications such as bookbinding, box labels, name tags, and more.

Hoses, conveyers, and tyres. Pine Chemistry is an essential component of autos and trucks since it is utilised as an ingredient in creating rubber hoses, belts, conveyors, and tyres.

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Market Dynamics

Drivers

Growing Demand for Gum Rosin in Many Different Industries

Gum Rosin and other bio-based products are mostly made from renewable energy sources. Gum Rosin, for instance, is made from pine compounds extracted from pine trees through a procedure known as pine tapping. Bio-based materials provide several advantages over synthetic or petrochemical-based materials. Bio-based materials, for example, are environmentally beneficial and disintegrate quickly. Apart from that, when compared to petrochemical-based products, price variations are low due to the stable supply of bio-based sources.

Gum Rosin is a basic material in paints and coatings, printing inks, textile printing inks, rubbers, adhesives, and other applications. The growing use of Gum Rosin in numerous end-use industries is likely to propel the Gum Rosin market forward.

Gum Rosin is a basic element in paints and decorative paints because it dissolves quickly in alcohol, gasoline, and other solvents. Because of rising demand from the building and automotive industries, the paints and coatings business continues to expand. In addition, rising demand for Gum Rosin from the printing ink and paper sectors will propel the Gum Rosin market forward.

Paints and coatings are projected to see significant growth. Growing demand for natural raw materials in many sectors is a key reason that will open up new potential for the Gum Rosin market to expand in the coming years, resulting in increased demand for pine chemicals.

Restraints

The Preferential Use of Substitutes to Influence the Market

Substitutes for pine goods are a crucial constraint in the market for synthetic pine chemicals. The alternatives are readily available and, given the pricing, are cost-effective for buyers. When compared to the alternatives, these eco-friendly products are more expensive. The market for alternatives to pine chemicals is hampered by the availability and viability of these products.

The most common alternatives to pine chemicals on the market include acrylic resin, alkyl succinic acid, and vegetable oil (soybean-food grade). They attract consumers from various industries that impact the global market and other enterprises, including printing, painting, cement, oil, gas, and others. According to the American Chemistry Council, pine chemical production plants emit fewer ozone-depleting compounds, protecting the environment. The alternatives are 56% non-environmentally friendly, depleting non-renewable minerals and petroleum derivatives.

Regional Analysis

The North America pine chemicals market is divided into the U.S., Canada & Mexico, based on country.

North America emerged as the leading regional provider of pine chemicals in 2018, with a market share of more than 30%, thanks to the engagement of important exporters. The development of bio-refineries in the region boosts regional market growth even further.

Segmental Analysis

The North America pine chemicals market is divided into tall oil, rosin, turpentine, and others based on product type. Tall oil produces coatings, paper sizing, paint, varnish, linoleum, drying oils, emulsions, lubricants, and soaps. It is obtained during paper manufacturing by synthetically treating the cooking alcohol used in the pulping of wood for paper. Tall oil is also used in cement, rubbers, inks, adhesive binder, asphalt emulsifiers, etc.

The North America pine chemicals market is classified into paints and coatings, solvents and disinfectants, printing ink, synthetic rubber, flavours and fragrances, and others based on application. Houses, vehicles, street markings, and underground storage utensils are painted with paints and coatings. Rosin is used as an additive in the manufacture of paints and varnishes. It promotes quick drying and produces vibrant colours.

Mineral Turpentine and white spirits are the most widely used dissolvable in paint formulation. Turpentine was previously the most commonly used paint and varnish thinner in today's paints and coatings. The use of less expensive oil-based products has replaced the use of turpentine in colours. Turpentine is now used in special applications such as spray painting, pottery, ceramic coatings, artist's paints, and naval paints.

List of key players in North America Pine Chemicals Market

1. Kraton Pine Chemicals
2. Eastman Chemical Company
3. Harima Chemicals Group
4. Renessenz
5. MeadWestvaco Corporation
6. Arakawa Chemical Industries
7. DRT
8. Arizona Chemical Company
9. Bakelite Synthetics
10. Foreverest Resources
11. Mentha & Allied Products

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Recent Developments

• April 2022, Eastman Chemical Company and certain of its subsidiaries stated that the previously announced sale of their adhesives resins business to Synthomer plc had been completed. Hydrocarbon resins (including Eastman Impera tyre resins), pure monomer resins, polyolefin polymers, rosins and dispersions, and oleochemical and fatty-acid based resins product lines were all part of Eastman's Additives & Functional Products sector at the time of the sale.
• May 2022, Bakelite Synthetics announced that its previous purchase of Georgia-chemicals Pacific's business had been completed.