The phrase "additive business" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing business models or strategies that involve adding value or components to existing products or services.
Example: "Our company is focusing on an additive business approach to enhance our product offerings and meet customer demands."
Alternatives: "value-added business" or "incremental business model".
When Rhodes died in 2002, Rosenberg's family asked him to take over managing the concrete additive business.
In 2005 he decided to spin out the additive business as a separate entity, aided by a $500,000 grant from New Jersey's economic development arm.
Last year Alpharma posted revenue of $742 million;the company recently acquired Roche Holding's $200 million (revenue) medicated feed additive business.
GE's Mohammad Ehteshami, head of the GE Additive business, noted 3D printing's ability to shorten the supply chain when he stated in the story, "Today, there are hundreds of big planes flying between cities around the world and carrying machine components.
With the acquisitions, GE expects to grow its additive business to $1 billion by 2020 while saving $3 billion to $5 billion in production costs over the next 10 years.
Palladium Equity Partners L.L.C., a New York-based investment firm, will also take a stake in the feed-additive business with a Philipp Brothers subsidiary, Phibro Animal Health.
Pfizer Inc., the world's second-largest drug company, said yesterday that it was selling its medicated feed-additive business to the privately held Philipp Brothers Chemicals for about $155 million.
The agreement does not include Chevron's Oronite additives business, which develops, makes and markets fuel and lubricant additives.
From 1953 to 1982, Wythe was employed by Exxon Corp., where in the 1960s he managed the domestic plastics and lube additives business.
K 2010 saw the launch of Durastrength® 365, a patented innovation from Arkema's Functional Additives business unit.
At October's K 2016 tradeshow, the Fire Retardant Additives business unit of Huber Engineered Materials introduced innovations developed by its recently acquired Martinswerk operation [ADPO, February 2016].
