Antimony Trisulfide Market Report Size, Share, Opportunities, and Trends Segmented By Grade, Application, End-User, and Geography – Forecasts from 2025 to 2030

Antimony Trisulfide Market Size:

The antimony trisulfide market is expected to experience steady growth during the forecast period.

The Antimony Trisulfide Market is increasingly growing. Examples of these uses include, but are certainly not limited to: pyrotechnics, explosives, frictional products, and semiconductors, to name a few. Antimony trisulfide (Sb?S?) is an inorganic compound primarily used as a primer in military small arms ammunition, and due to its ability to be used as a fuel and a sensitizer for explosives, it is of strategic importance for defense products throughout the world. Examples include: matches, fireworks, and safety flares. Therefore, the Antimony Trisulfide market is growing in countries with strong defence and pyrotechnic industries. Antimony trisulfide is also an important friction material in automotive brake linings and in clutch facings, particularly now when the market for high-performance vehicles is in demand, due to the demand for added durability and/or resistant component materials.

Antimony Trisulfide Market Overview & Scope

The antimony trisulfide market is segmented by:

• Grade: Ultra-Pure Grade is utilized in electronic, semiconductor, and photovoltaic devices due to its optical and electrical properties. This is the fastest-growing segment as global R&D into renewable energy and advanced electronics is increasing the use of ultra-pure antimony trisulfide for thin-film solar cells, sensors, and photodetectors.
• Application: In semiconductors & photovoltaics, the emerging applications in optoelectronics, thin-film solar cells, and energy storage systems have the fastest-growing application segment, given the clean energy adoption and current semiconductor innovations in conjunction with the worldwide transition to sustainability.
• End-User: Electronics & Renewable Energy is projected to grow in market share with Semiconductor devices, sensors, and thin-film solar panels as major growth factors. This is the fastest-growing application segment, given the accelerating demand for electronics miniaturization and solar energy investment.
• Region: The market is segmented into five major geographic regions, namely North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific is anticipated to hold the largest share of the market, and it will be growing at the fastest CAGR.

Top Trends Shaping the Antimony Trisulfide Market

1. Growth of Automotive Friction Materials
   The Antimony trisulfide is a key ingredient used in brake linings, clutch fictions, and friction composites since it improves heat resistance as well as mechanical performance. With the global vehicle fleet rapidly growing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, it bolsters this segment. The increasing safety requirements and the demand for higher-performing braking systems would expand its use in automotive and industrial machinery applications.
2. Pyrotechnics and the Development of the Entertainment Sector
   The established applications of fireworks, safety matches, and signal flares will continue to generate significant demand. Increasing urbanization and cultural activities in China, India, and Southeast Asia are creating demand in the pyrotechnics segment with steady growth. However, the pyrotechnics sector has an increasing number of regulatory restrictions and environmental considerations, particularly in the West.

Antimony Trisulfide Market Growth Drivers vs. Challenges

Drivers:

• Tailored Grade Development for Specialty Uses: Increasing emphasis on application-specific grades, i.e., low-impurity grades for optoelectronics, high-density grades for ammunition, and reinforced composites for friction products. These general applications allow for profit margins, but specialization is the way to make money and tap into specification-driven market segments that attract higher-tier customers in defense, renewable energy, etc.
• Dual-Use Sb?S? in Military and Civilian Economies: Antimony trisulfide is playing a bridging role between civilian interests (fireworks, matches, pyrotechnics) and strategic defense applications (primers, explosives, flares). This dual use is creating a geopolitical tightrope where governments limit exports for national security interests, but industries demand open access to serve consumers. This is resulting in a trend of localized production clusters near defense hubs to maintain stable supply chains without being overly exposed to global volatility.

Challenges:

• Restricted Use Reliance on Pyrotechnics and Defense: Most of the Sb?S? is used to produce defense ammunition and fireworks. The market is exposed to potential risks from political decisions, cuts in the financial resources allocated for the sector, or prohibitions of fireworks in the areas where they are mostly consumed because of this limited reliance. If these new applications for the metal in the fields of energy and electronics do not grow very fast, the demand for the metal may stabilize.
• Slow R&D Application Commercialization: Although nanotechnology, photodetectors, and energy storage in the lab have shown some very promising possibilities, the process of bringing these ideas to the market is still very slow. This situation results in a disparity between the excitement about the market and the genuine use of products, wherein the potential for sustaining growth is limited. Usually, a majority of the investors would prefer to wait until the demonstration goes beyond a pilot stage and into large-scale industrial production before they decide to invest.

Antimony Trisulfide Market Regional Analysis

• Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific region has a large lead over other regions in the global market for antimony trisulfide. This is a result of not only the plentiful reserves in the area but also the robust demand in these industries: defense, automotive, fireworks, and electronics.
• China: China has the largest antimony reserves in the world in the Xikuangshan mine in Hunan and keeps a vertically integrated industrial system of mining, refining, and end-use manufacturing. The supremacy of China is the result of its twofold nature as the largest producer and consumer, thus the development of the industry by an enormous production of fireworks, large automotive brake lining production, and consumption for the defense sector.
• India: India is becoming a significant growth center after the positive developments in its car industry, the traditional dependence on fireworks, which is expected to change with the introduction of new and more environmentally friendly products, and the defense modernization program, which is already generating increasing demand for the country's industrial sector. The country suffers from a lack of sizable antimony reserves and therefore it is importing the metal mainly from China, Russia, and Southeast Asia, which makes it vulnerable in terms of supply chain and price changes.

Antimony Trisulfide Market Competitive Landscape

The market is fragmented, with many notable players, including China Minmetals Corporation, Tri-Star Resources Plc, Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd, United States Antimony Corporation, Campine NV, Yiyang Huachang Antimony Industry Co., Ltd, Shenyang Antimony Chemical Co., Ltd, Youngsun Antimony, Geodex Minerals Ltd, and Kazzinc.

• Investment: In May 2025, to further develop a fully domestic supply chain for antimony trisulfide, Perpetua Resources received up to $6.9 million in defense funding. The investment expands upon the $15.5 million that DOTC granted the company in August 2023 through an Ordnance Technology Initiative Agreement (OTIA).
• Regulations: In February 2025, to control antimony trioxide, bisphenols, and ortho-phthalates in food packaging, the US state of California introduced AB 1148, the "Safer Food Packaging Act of 2025,". Regarding product safety, the proposed law would add Article 3 to Chapter 15 of Part 3 of Division 104 of the state's Health and Safety Code.

Antimony Trisulfide Market Scope:

Antimony Trisulfide Market Segmentation:

• By Grade
  • Commercial Grade
  • Military Grade
  • Ultra-Pure Grade
• By Application
  • Pyrotechnics & Explosives
  • Ammunition Primers
  • Friction Materials
  • Semiconductors & Photovoltaics
  • Others
• By End-User
  • Defense & Military
  • Automotive
  • Electronics & Renewable Energy
  • Consumer Goods
• By Geography
  • North America
    • United States
    • Canada
    • Mexico
  • South America
    • Brazil
    • Argentina
    • Others
  • Europe
    • United Kingdom
    • Germany
    • France
    • Italy
    • Others
  • Middle East and Africa
    • Saudi Arabia
    • UAE
    • Others
  • Asia Pacific
    • Japan
    • China
    • India
    • South Korea
    • Taiwan
    • Others

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Page last updated on: September 11, 2025

China Minmetals Corporation

Tri-Star Resources Plc

Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.

United States Antimony Corporation

Campine NV

Yiyang Huachang Antimony Industry Co., Ltd.

Shenyang Antimony Chemical Co., Ltd.

Youngsun Antimony

Geodex Minerals Ltd.

Kazzinc