Use of specialty additives for natural fiber-based and forest polymer composites is still in the infancy stage.

Use of specialty additives for natural fiber-based and forest polymer composites is still in the infancy stage. Formulation enhancements are required to significantly increase performance and improve throughput and costliness economics for these composites, and performance-enhancing additives will expand their market acceptance and share. The specific materials and amount of additives required to sufficiently stabilize and improve these natural composites are still beneath development and evaluation by the industry.

The market size for specialty additives used in natural and wood-land fiber polymer composites is 42 million lb valued at $57 million, in 2001 Colorants find widespread, almost universal,