Global Automotive Fu

The demand for fuels is ever-increasing and so is the demand for fuel additives. The benefit of using fuel additives is that they help to meet the increasingly stringent environment norms as various countries are implementing regulations to control emissions. Rigorous environmental regulations along with increasing demand for clean and efficient fuel, and depleting crude reserves are the main market drivers of the fuel additives market.
The factors that drive growth in the fuel additives market include stringent environmental regulations, depleting crude reserves, and demand for clean and efficient fuel. The factors that are providing hindrance in the growth of this market are rise in demand of alternate fuels, stagnant demand for high end gasoline, and huge investment in R&D for fuel additives.

Fuel additive manufacturers relentlessly strive to retain their shares. Hence, the companies wish to differentiate their fuels from those of their competitors by including various types of additives which has revived the market. Since some fuel companies buy fuel from the same refinery, it is crucial to offer great benefits such as improved fuel quality. The marketers hope to achieve this by using more fuel additives. Such trends have ensured that both the gasoline and diesel additives market segments remain dynamic, despite the apparent maturity of the former.

Additives, when added to any fuel, provide economies of scale in the long run, but, in the short run, these escalate the overall cost of the products, that are gasoline, diesel, and others. In price sensitive markets such as India and other developing economies, where fuel price is a more vital issue than the product quality, there is less market opportunity for premium fuels. In these countries, product/fuel quality may or may not help in the sale of the fuel. Therefore, in these markets, adding the fuel additives to the fuel only adds the burden on the seller and the buyer, and both parties tend to lose. The price sensitive nature of these markets makes them less attractive and the sale of fuel additives is hampered and is rather below the potential here.

The report covers the fuel additives market and is broadly segmented by application (Gasoline, Diesel, and Aviation). The market is further segmented by region (Asia-Oceania, North America, Europe, and ROW) focusing on key countries in each region.

Various secondary sources have been used such as encyclopedia, directories, and databases to identify and collect information useful for this extensive commercial study of fuel additive market. The primary sources – experts from related industries and suppliers have been interviewed to obtain and verify critical information as well as to assess the future prospects of the fuel additives.

This report classifies and defines the global fuel additives market. It also brings qualitative insights about the types of fuel additives. The report also gives a wide-ranging review of the market drivers, restraints, opportunities, challenges, and key issues in the automotive fuel additives. The study also involves the major additives used in the market.