• The feed pigmentsmarket is an upcoming one and the companies are adopting expansion of their feed pigments business as their growth strategy. Carotenoids are considered as a main type among all feed pigments.Curcuminis the second-most important market for feed pigments. Companies operating in this market, such asthe PHW Group (Germany), Synthite Industries (India), BASF SE (Germany), Novus International (U.S.) and Royal DSM NV (The Netherlands), are growing by expandingtheir production capacities andproduct portfolioto enhance their penetration in the feed pigments market.

    • Published: May 2014
  • General trends across different level sensors & measurement technologies reflect market drivers. Refined digital electronics are making level sensors and other measurement devices more user-friendly, more reliable, easier to set up, and less expensive. Improved communication interfaces feed level measurement date into a company’s existing control and/or information system. Level sensor industry has been witnessing a massive transformation from contact level sensors to non-contact level sensors. Companies are coming up with advanced level sensing technologies which are non-contact based level sensors such as microwave/radar, ultrasonic, optical, laser, load cells, and nuclear level sensors. Previously magnetic and mechanical float level sensors used to dominate the entire level sensor market, but with recent developments in different areas of sensing and also, requirement by different industrial application, newer level sensing technologies were designed and developed with principle of physical quantities such as light, distance, and time in order to meet the requirements.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The next-generation data centers require fast and simplified Ethernet network fabrics to reduce the cost of operations and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by integrating major pillars of the data center, including server, storage, and networking systems. Fabric reduces the failure frequency and downtime. It helps data center owners to transform their customer legacy network structure into single-tiers and modernize the infrastructure of their data centers.

    • Published: May 2014
  • Asahi Kasei Corporation (Japan), Ascend Performance Materials Inc. (U.S.), BASF SE (Germany), Invista (U.S.), Lanxess Ag (Germany), PetroChina Liaoyang Petrochemical (China), Radici Group (Italy), Rhodia (France), Shandong Haili Chemical Industry Company Ltd. (China), and Shandong Hongye Chemical Company, Ltd. (China) are the most active and key players in the adipic acid market.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The acetic acid market is quite fragmented due to the presence of a large number of players. The Asia-Pacific region is estimated to be the biggest market of acetic acid and is also the second fastest growing, after the ROW market. The market is expected to show a significant growth in the future. More than 5.8 million tons of upcoming capacities are in the planning phase. Various market players have integrated their plants so as to reduce the impact of external environment on plant economics.

    • Published: May 2014
  • Choline chloride is a vital dietary additive for healthy as well as accelerating growth of the animals such as chickens, swine, fish, and so on. It helps in building and maintaining cell structures and functions. It supports in mobilization of fat in the liver thereby avoiding fatty liver syndrome.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The players in the markets are taking strategic decisions such as acquisitions and expansion as a major move to tap the growing market. In terms of materials, HDPE & LDPE take a majority of share in the market due to their unmatched advantages such as cost effectiveness and durability as compared to the other materials. The HDPE & LDPE materials will remain dominant in future, in the manufacturing of geomembranes.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The global 1,6-Hexanediol market is emerging with a robust growth due to the increasing number of applications in different vertical industries, such as polyurethanes, coatings, adhesives, acrylates, unsaturated polyester resins, plasticizers, and others. To sustain and maintain strong growth in the future, the companies need to put in a lot investment as well as efforts in the research and development to come up with high quality and cost-effective 1,6-Hexanediol.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The air quality control systems market is driven by strict air pollution control regulations in different regions of the world. The motive behind the regulations is to reduce harmful toxic elements from the exhaust gases. Power generation, cement manufacturing, and other metal processing industries emit harmful gases and particulate matter in the air, which pollutes the environment; this may affect human health as well. Air quality systems reduce these exhaust gases and the particulate matter that are emitted from the industries.

    • Published: May 2014
  • The transformer oil market is a key derivative of the global transmission and distribution investments which is of prime importance due to the current power scenarios all across. The liquid-immersed transformer market in particular is expected to grow strongly in the next five-six years due to increase in the European and North American governmental investments towards enhancement of power grids. The increasing power requirements in the developing countries also demand expansion and upgrade of power grids, which in turn indirectly drives the demand for liquid-immersed transformers. The developing countries in Asia-Pacific, South America, and the Middle East are expected to install a large number of new liquid-filled transformers in the future giving rise to the increased demand and consumption for transformer oil. Moreover, the existing transformers in the North American and European regions will give rise to increased consumption of transformer oil due to their ageing which would require to be replaced or topped up after the removal of old transformer oil.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Mounting safety concerns and production efficiency are some of the factors driving the market demand for subsea Well Access and Blowout Preventer (BOP) systems. The market is intended to grow with rapid development of offshore drilling activities. The tragic incident that happened four years ago in Gulf of Mexico, where explosive blowouts occurring due to the failure of BOP, destroyed the BP Plc.’s Macondo well, illustrates the need for safety in subsea environment. With increasing safety regulations being imposed and stringent penalties for non-compliance, oil and gas operators are forced to implement improved and effective drilling equipment. The subsea well access and BOP market is therefore expected to show sound growth in the coming years.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Choline chloride, also known as Vitamin B4, is majorly used for animal feed additive for healthy growth of the animals such as poultry, swine, and ruminants. Choline chloride metabolizes fats and prevents abnormal accumulation of fat in the animal liver.

    • Published: April 2014
  • POM is a high performance engineering plastic which is based on formaldehyde. The homopolymer or polyformaldehyde itself is unstable at high temperatures and evaporates to give formaldehyde gas. A comparatively more stable form, copolymer, is produced by the reaction of trioxane, a cyclic trimer of formaldehyde, and cyclic ether. The market demand for the copolymer form of POM is growing significantly due to high thermal stability, good chemical resistance, and cost effectiveness against homopolymer.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The automotive segment accounts for largest share of around 57.0% of the total Asia-Pacific base oil market in terms of volume. The automotive industry is increasingly utilizing Group II, Group III, and Group IV to replace conventional base oil. The shift is primarily attributed to the higher performance characteristics of Group II, Group III and Group IV and stringent vehicle emission regulations.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global electrosurgery market was dominated by Covidien plc (Ireland), Ethicon (U.S.), and Olympus Corporation (Japan) in 2013. These three companies together accounted for a share of 78% of the global electrosurgery market in 2013. The global electrosurgery market was dominated by Covidien plc (Ireland), Ethicon (U.S.), and Olympus Corporation (Japan) in 2013. These three companies together accounted for a share of 78% of the global electrosurgery market in 2013.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Advanced utility boilers are the latest in technology that utilize the least amount of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and produce a maximum amount of electricity out of these available resources. The latest-technology boilers are necessary because the ease of the availability of fossil fuels has dropped to a great extent globally. Hence, the cost of fossil fuels has increased. The most widely used advanced utility boilers are sub critical radiant boilers, super critical boilers, and ultra super critical boilers.

    • Published: April 2014
  • 2-Ethylhexanol is an organic compound which is an oxo alcohol used in the production of various products. It is an eight carbon alcohol and is a colorless clear liquid that is almost insoluble in water but is well soluble in organic solvents. It is used to manufacture various chemicals that further serve diverse industries that include automotive, paints, and building & construction. Its main application segments include manufacturing of plasticizers, 2-EH acrylate, 2-EH nitrate, and others.

    • Published: April 2014
  • A significant growth in healthcare costs is a major challenge faced by developed countries. Additionally, the growth in aging population and increasing incidences of chronic disorders will further increase the burden on the healthcare systems. This scenario demands a paradigm shift in healthcare systems, from lengthy hospital stays to remote monitoring devices that are capable of monitoring critical health data at home.

    • Published: April 2014
  • In 2015, the global data center physical security market was dominated by Honeywell (U.S.), Bosch (Germany), Morpho (Safran) (France), and ASSA ABLOY (Sweden); these companies are expected to lead the market in the next five years as well. These companies provide a wide products and solutions portfolio including a range of surveillance solutions, support and after sales services. These companies market their products across North America, Europe, Central America, Middle East and Africa, and Asia. The companies’ wide range of products and solutions offerings coupled with their wide geographic presence enables them to maintain the leading position in the data center physical security market. Furthermore, the company focuses on Research and Development (R&D) of innovative products as its key business strategy to ensure growth in the global data center physical security market.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The advancement in mobile technologies and internet capabilities of wireless devices have paved a way for increasing usage of the M Commerce services as well as it has rapidly increased the amount of data being interchanged. All of the above factors have resulted in the creation of the M Commerce market. The efforts to remove the geographical barriers, fulfilling customers’ on demand request, easier and flexible business transactions has resulted in search for solutions to cater all of the above requirementsthrough M Commerce services. The M Commerce services help in getting benefits to end customers by providing cheaper services, interactive services, and on demand services.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Ceramic coatings are generally applied on metal or metallic alloy components or on the ceramic components. These can be further classified into oxide coatings, carbide coatings, nitride coatings, and others. Ceramic coatings are generally used for wear, high temperature, and corrosion resistant applications. All ceramic coatings deliver some level of performance in each of these three major areas. 

    • Published: April 2014
  • Protein expression is the manufacture of a protein derived from recombinant DNA. Owing to the advancements in the proteomic industry, the demand for protein expression related activities has increased tremendously in the recent years. The increasing research intensity in the pharmaceutical sector has fuelled the growth of this market. As such, the protein expression industry remains a lucrative field to invest

    • Published: April 2014
  • The 2-EH market is quite fragmented due to the presence of a large number of players. Asia-Pacific is the biggest market of 2-EH and is also the second fastest growing, after the ROW market. The market is expected to show a significant growth in the future and with this anticipation, more than 500.0 KT of upcoming capacities are in the planning phase. Various market players have integrated their plants so as to reduce the impact of external environment on plant economics.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Phenolic resin, the main raw material source wide, product, good heat resistance, high mechanical strength, electrical insulation and excellent high temperature creep, low price, good processability, in particular, has good flame resistance, very little harmful gases, thus it is widely used in the composite materials, adhesives, coatings, molding, foundry, and other applications.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Motion simulation systems create a virtual environment which replicates the real life scenario with the help of simulated motion and visual display. Human motion simulation may be defined as the digital representation of humans in a virtual environment to help analyze human performance, comfort, and above all, safety. Some of the key players such as CAE, Inc. (Canada) and SantosHuman Inc. (U.S.) are among the active players in the motion simulation market and the human motion simulation market, respectively.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Currently, the demand of caprolactam is driven by the demand of polyamide 6 in the automotive, electrical & electronics, consumer goods and appliances, and film & coating applications. The demand for caprolactam is supported by stringent government regulations, increasing pressure for lightweight and durable polyamide 6, and the need for improving the standard of processing and manufacturing end-products. The durability and lightweight nature of polyamide 6 has created a significant impact on the various application markets and is already replacing polypropylene and polyethylene in some of the application segments. It meets the requirements of thermal conductivity, distinct density requirements, and other characteristics across the different industry verticals and is an excellent performer compared to other materials

    • Published: April 2014
  • Air pollution has become a significant threat to sustainable development and the life expectancy of human beings. Industries contribute to over 21% of harmful emissions. Hence, governments of different nations are imposing stringent regulations on industries for emissions of certain harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, and also of particulate matter. Therefore, to keep the emissions below permissible limits, industries are mandated to install and operate flue gas treatment systems. The key end-user industries of these systems and the associate services include, power generation, cement manufacture, and metal processing units.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Globally, paper coating materials find their applications in coated papers and corrugated packaging industries. The end-user industries of paper coating materials include printing, advertising and publishing, and corrugated paper packaging.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global ceramic coatings industry is a rapidly evolving market. The current scenario in the global ceramic coatings market is dominated by number of major players that include APS Materials Inc., Bodycote PLC, Praxair Surface Technologies Inc., Kurt J. Lesker Co. and so on. These companies are focused on investment to establish new production facilities and capacity expansion of ceramic coatings to achieve economies of scale, product innovation, and expansion in order to capture and improve market share.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Among all the major verticals, the BFSI vertical is expected to account for the largest market share during the forecast period 2014-2019. The Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions are extensively used in this industry to manage personal accounts of customers, to avoid fallacy in financial transactions and to provide smooth movement of funds between the branches. Furthermore, these solutions are also helping organizations across government and utilities sector, to fight against malicious attacks such as DDOS attacks and web attacks which are specifically aimed to harm the defense data. This could result in great devastation and loss. Over the period of time, the government and utilities sector has realized the benefits from UTM in terms of performance and price. UTM is a simpler solution which enables the organization to save on cost, and enhance its productivity.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global paper coating materials market has been slowly recovering from the economic downturn of 2008. This recovery is dominantly led by the increased demand in the Asia-Pacific region. Paper coating materials have gained prominence in the recent past due to increasing demand by end-user industries, especially in the developing countries of Asia such as China, Japan, and South Korea.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The population health management market exhibitsa lucrative growth due to its several advantages, such as regulatory compliance, reduction of hospital readmissions and hospitals stays, prediction and prevention of chronic diseases, quality care, and cost management. Therehas been an increase in the adoption of population health management inorder to leverage these benefits and reduce the healthcare costs.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The flue gas treatment systems market is projected to grow from USD 53.30 Billion in 2017 to USD 69.11 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 5.3% from 2017 to 2022. Companies such as General Electric (US), Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (US), Doosan Lentjes (Germany), Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (Japan), FLSmidth (Denmark), and Thermax Limited (India) operating in the flue gas treatment systems market have adopted both, organic as well as inorganic growth strategies such as acquisitions, expansions, and contracts & agreements to serve their customers efficiently and increase their market shares in the flue gas treatment systems market.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Biodegradable packaging plays an important role in the packaging industry due to the ever increasing consumer awareness and importance of using eco-friendly, biodegradable packaging materials instead of conventional non biodegradable ones. Biodegradable packaging products are primarily developed from biodegradable plastics such as PLA, Starch based Plastics, PHA, PCL, and PBS or different types of paper and paperboard.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Telecommunication applications will be the biggest contributor to the metamaterials market with the commercialization of antennas, an integral component in smartphones, routers, and satellite communication equipment. The use of metamaterials by companies like Rayspan, Kymeta, and Evolv and others in their products willmake this segment thebiggest contributor to the metamaterials market.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Data security breaches have become a major business concern for organizations. Due to this, the companies are suffering from both financial repercussions and brand degradations. Unified Threat Management (UTM), being an integrated solution provides multiple functionalities such as spam blocking, gateway antivirus, spyware protection, intrusion prevention, and URL filtering. This provides extensive protection to the organization’s data, network, and critical assets from malicious threats.

    • Published: April 2014
  • With the growing demand for hybrid and portable solutions, onboard computers are increasingly substituted with smart solutions, thereby, reducing the hardware cost. These factors facilitate new opportunities to the OEM, aftermarket, software, and services providers to expand one’s product line and customer base. The broad range of telematics products and solutions has enabled the end users such as transportation companies and fleet operators to adopt telematics, sustain low operational costs, and maintain competitive edge in the business.

    • Published: April 2014
  • In the mega data center market, the telecom and IT industry vertical is expected to account for the largest market share during the forecast period 2014-2019. Data centers are extensively used in the telecommunication and IT industries to store important and crucial data, which is the backbone of entire business. Rapid increase in the demand for data storage is pushing the business organizations to enhance the data storage capacities by either expanding its existing data centers or by establishing new facilities. But, managing the data centers at different locations is a difficult task and involves additional expenditure. So, organizations have started consolidating most of its data centers into providing larger facilities; thereby, giving rise to the mega data centers.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Therehave been a lot of activities lately in the Metamaterials landscape by companies like Netgear, Raytheon, Inmarsat PLC, and O3b Networks. However, one company that has managed to offer some kind of hope for the commercialization of the metamaterials concept has been Kymeta Corporation.

    • Published: April 2014
  • According to Market Research, “The light weapons market is expected to show a substantial growth by 2019. The global anti-tank guided weapons market is expected to register a CAGR of 3.14% to reach $1.60 billion in 2019; the global man-portable air-defence market is expected to rise at a CAGR 1.67% to reach $134.55 million in 2019; and the unguided light weapons market that constitutes heavy machine guns, grenade launchers/mortars, and recoilless rifles, is expected to register a CAGR of 1.90% to reach $366.87 million in 2019.”

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global biodegradable packaging industry is a rapidly evolving market. The current scenario in the global biodegradable packaging market is dominated by number of major players that include International Paper (U.S.), BASF SE (Germany), Mondi Group (U.K), Stora Enso (Finland), Smurfit Kappa Group (Ireland), RockTenn (U.S.), and so on. Most of these companies are leaders in the production of paper and plastic biodegradable packaging along with other products.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global light weapons market is estimated to be $1.36 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $1.56 billion in 2019. The entire light weapons market can be divided into three basic segments: anti-tank guided weapons (ATGW) market, man-portable air-defence systems (MANPAD) market and unguided weapons market. The ATGW market is estimated to be $908.47 million in 2014 and is expected to register a CAGR of 3.14% to reach $1.60 billion in 2019. The global MANPAD market is estimated to be $123.88 million in 2014 and is expected to register a CAGR of 1.67% to reach $131.63 million in 2019. The global unguided weapons market is estimated to be $333.92 million in 2014 and is expected to register a CAGR of 1.90% to reach $366.87 million in 2019.

    • Published: April 2014
  • In today’s technological environment, the growth of mega data centers is highly influenced by the rising demands for data storage. This in turn is a result of increase in use of cloud services, virtualization and mobility. The exponential growth in data production and its usage, has forced companies to look beyond the conventional data center capabilities and capacities. MarketsandMarkets has observed that currently more than 65% of the companies are experiencing the need to build new data centers and provide upgrades in its existing ones; this number is estimated to increase in the coming years. Mega data centers with its enhanced capacity and capabilities emerge as one of the most prominent solutions with features such as centralized control, high scalability, and economies of scale.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Attack on networks to get unauthorized access is not a new issue for enterprises. With the evolution of network technologies, the attackers also find new ways to breach into the networks. Newer tools and technology is used to create a protection mechanism by vendors, and attackers uses new tools to manipulate the current security systems. Since losing data can be catastrophic in nature for an organization, hence they cannot afford this risk. Today organizations/enterprises want solutions which can secure and protect their wireless networks and intranets.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The increasing acceptance of plant-derived products in the market is a major driver for the increase in the market for phytochemicals & plant extracts in the future. The consumers in developed nations such as the U.S., Germany, and others, are moving towards these products with increasing health concerns and awareness about plant-derived products.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The food colors market is growing with the increasing food demand. The growth of the natural colors market segment depends on the consumer’s preference for natural and healthy food colors. This growth will be maintained in future with new sources of raw material, the launch of new products, and using advanced technology for color production. There are different regulations established by the government on the use of a particular set of synthetic food colors in their respective countries.

    • Published: April 2014
  • Business intelligence and analytics market has rapidly gaining traction and has huge demand in the market. The capability of this tool to consolidate data from multiple places in the same data warehouse delivers unified, accurate view of the bigger picture has significantly helped companies to take better decisions. Moreover analytics has enhanced the decision making ability of organizations to take tactical and strategic decision making in all the business process. Similarly, analytics tools such as OLAP, data mining, data profiling, and others facilitates various process by giving what if scenario analysis that helps in segregating information from huge volume of data. These tools have unprecedented role ubiquitously in all the functional units such as marketing and sales, financial management, security, logistics, project management, and various others.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The fluid management and visualization systems market is consolidated in nature with the top 5 players accounting for more than 50% market share in 2013. There are numerous smaller players as well in the market, operating at both global and regional levels. Majority of the leading market players are based across developed countries such as the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The feed antioxidants market is a growing market and the companies are going for expansion of their business as their growth strategy. BHA is considered as a main type of feed antioxidant. BHA is the most popular type of feed antioxidant. Companies involved with feed antioxidants such as BASF SE (Germany), Kemin Europa (U.S.), and Cargill, Inc. (U.S.), are expanding their business by adopting new technologies to enhance their production and meet the increasing demands of the market.

    • Published: April 2014
  • The global market for bioactive ingredients is expected to grow at a rate of 7.2% from 2013 to 2018. Asia-Pacific forms the dominant market in the field of bioactive ingredients. This can be attributed to the continuously growing population, urbanization, increasing disposable income, and changing lifestyles of people.

    • Published: April 2014
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