While the world is making a shift away from the use of chemicals in various products that are used on a daily basis, camphor is emerging as a popular chemical ingredient in most of the natural end products.

Being a translucent terpene ketone, white/grey in colour, and crystalline in form, camphor does not only have a pleasant odour, but it also offers versatile physical properties – which usually depend on its species, origin, and other specific growing conditions.

Though camphor is commonly produced by the distillation of bark and wood of the camphor tree, it can also be manufactured synthetically; carrying out the synthesis of turpentine oil which is produced from rosin, kinleith, and pine wood among multiple other ingredients.

Camphor is most commonly used in various healthcare products mainly due to its medicinal properties, and these products can be used as a treatment for cough, congestion, and other skin-related infections. Camphor is also used as an insecticide in food storages – a most commonly used traditional insecticide, especially in some countries across South Asia.

Camphor Market: Region-wise Analysis

The global market for camphor is divided into seven geographical segments – North America, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Oceania, and Middle East & Africa. The Asia Pacific region is expected to account for a significant revenue share in the global camphor market, mainly accounting for the use of camphor in a variety of traditional medicinal products.

As camphor is among the most commonly used household goods, leading manufacturers are aiming to maintain a healthy demand-supply balance in the Asia Pacific region, in the coming years.

North America is also emerging as a profitable regional market for camphor manufacturers, distributors, and other stakeholders. A mounting number of end-use industries are moving to replacing chemicals with camphor to avail its natural, medicinal properties, in order to sync with the consumer demand for ‘all natural’ products.

As a result, leading players in the global camphor market will witness a burgeoning demand from the end-use industries situated in the North American region, in the foreseeable future.

Camphor Market: Competitive Landscape

• Beijing Herbal Health Biotech LLC,
• Taiwan Tekho Camphor Co., Ltd
• Indukern Internacional
• Saptagir Camphor Ltd.
• Camphor and Allied Products ltd.
• Hunan Nutramax Inc.

The global camphor market witnesses intense competition, while leading players are aiming to gain a competitive edge by introducing a price differentiation. This makes it a price sensitive market, leaving very little or no scope for market players to introduce product differentiation.