• Asia-Pacific: Production Powerhouse
    The Asia-Pacific region has been the leading automotive producer for the last few years and has also witnessed strong growth in its motor vehicle population. This has formed the base for it to over throw Europe off its top spot in the automotive oil and fuel filters market and gain the top spot over the next five years. The Asia-Pacific region’s growth is highly associated with China and India, which are gaining pace year-on-year and are providing ample opportunities to the global automotive industry giants for setting up successful ventures in these markets. Improved standard of living, disposable income and other economic factors have provided the extra boost that the automotive industry in this region required.

    • Published: October 2013
  • The global adsorbents market is emerging with a positive growth due to the increasing number of applications and materials in different vertical industries such as packaging, oil & gas, water treatment, air separation, and others. There is a continuous need of innovations in applications and products to help sustain the industry and its growth. It will furthermore lower the chances of substitutes development in the market. Therefore, all major companies have created advanced application technology centers for research and development worldwide.

    • Published: October 2013
  • Traditionally LiDAR has been used for forestry and topography applications to suffice the need of 3D mapping larger areas and creating a contour map. However, with technological developments, improvement in equipment handling and user experience, and price reduction number of niches and specific applications are adopting LiDAR technology. One such application is the corridor mapping application.

    • Published: October 2013
  • Recently, there has been quite a lot of developments in terms of technology and functionality of the medical waste management industry. Environmental and safety regulations for medical waste management have set standards for the storage and treatment of regulated medical waste. Regulated medical waste can be stored, steam sterilized, incinerated, or treated by an acceptable mechanism that includes the usage of autoclaves, shredders, sterilizers, etc.

    • Published: October 2013
  • Across the globe, sensor-based disposable devices are being increasingly used due to factors such as lower cost and their ability to reduce hospital acquired infections. A number of sensor-based disposable devices are available in the market. Furthermore, companies are engaged in developing new disposable devices sensors with advanced feature, which will help the market to grow further.

    • Published: October 2013
  • The chromatography instrumentation market has witnessed various technological advancements in the recent years. This can be attributed to market players focusing on the introduction of newer systems and consumables for performing fast chromatographic procedures. These new systems are widely being used in new application areas such as proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics. Through the launch of new products, a number of key players are competing against each other in order to increase their market share and expand their existing customer base. These key players include Agilent Technologies (U.S.), Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (U.S.), Waters Corporation (U.S.), and Shimadzu Corporation (Japan).

    • Published: October 2013
  • Teleprotection industry is receiving interest, investments and the favorable government policies primarily in the developed economies. The BRIC powerhouses such as Brazil and India Are among which others not only have the potential but also have favorable policies. Conversely, there is a lack of proper funding options and venture capitalists which eventually slows down the overall growth of the market as compared to the developed economies.

    • Published: October 2013
  • The teleprotection market is still in its growth stage and is witnessing an enormous patent filings and developments. All the big electronic and telecommunication companies are doing extensive research and development activities to get the first moveradvantage. Small companies in the ecosystem are doing aflourishing business to be in the market rivalry for the long term business. The teleprotection industry is witnessing a binge of new product developments, mergers & collaborations, expansions and other activities in research and development field.

    • Published: October 2013
  • Several healthcare organizations are embracing vendor neutral archives (VNAs) owing to the technological and cost benefits that these solutions offer over as compared to PACS. The technology is aimed at delivering a patient-centric and standard-based image management and storage solution, which is attracting new end users. Thus, the VNA players that were typically focused at providing end-to-end solutions to large healthcare organizations are now shifting their focus to small and medium-sized hospitals as well.

    • Published: October 2013
  • Nuclear power, one of the most promising low carbon emitting sources for electricity is witnessing a decrease in importance with visible signs of diminishing growth rates. Globally, many countries are becoming increasingly concerned about the adverse affects of nuclear power after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster causing existing and new projects to be either suspended or deferred or abandoned. Apart from the Fukushima disaster, other major nuclear accidents that caused severe environmental and ill health effects include the Chernobyl (Ukraine) accident in 1986 and the Kyshtym (Russia) accident in 1957. Globally, countries since the latest disaster, have developed mixed opinions and started to revise their energy policies with some still continuing with their new nuclear projects while the others abandoning even their existing ones. Together with ageing fleet and delays of new plants construction the future growth of nuclear power appears to shrink.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Coal has been the primary source of India’s energy demand for more than a century accounting for almost 43% of the country’s primary energy mix. However, it is apparent that coal is not the long-term answer to the country’s ever increasing energy demand. The twin power blackouts during late July 2012 (the peak summer demand) period threw more than 300 million people into darkness across the states in northern India, including the capital city New Delhi, that created chaos, disrupted railways, hospitals and other emergency services. This was a grim reminder of the huge supply shortfall, the country is facing. Coupled with increasing environmental issues associated with coal based power plants and the declining domestic reserves, it is high time that the people of the country have to think about other cleaner and economically competitive alternatives.

    • Published: September 2013
  • East Africa is emerging as one of the most significant players in the global oil & gas industry. Huge oil discoveries made recently around the Lake Albert in Uganda and the offshore gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania have begun to open up the entire East African coastline for exploration.

    • Published: September 2013
  • With growing technological advancements the manufacturers are investing in R&D for nano technology based sensors and wireless sensors to meet the future demands. Green buildings and smart cities are one of the emerging markets generally use wireless detection systems as they provide comfort, safety, reconfiguration and flexibility in reduction of installation time. The entire wireless system requires no surface conduit, extra wiring or materials. A majority of the GASD technologies have measurement imbalances such as drifts due to temperature influences, cross sensitivity due to the presence of multiple gases, saturation and aging which can be overcome with nano and wireless technologies.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The Phase Change Material Market finds new opportunities with the application of bio-based PCM. This PCM has added advantages over the organic-based PCM as these do not pose the problem of high flammability and low biodegradability. Europe is the largest market for organic-based PCM while Americas is the largest market for inorganic and bio-based PCM. However the growth of PCM is estimated to be the highest in Europe for the next five years. The worldwide demand for high performance (efficient) materials is driving the market for R&D in phase change materials. This has attracted a great amount of R&D initiatives leading to the adoption of several technologies such as microencapsulation and molecular encapsulation for better integration of PCMs in the end products.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The Government’s across the globe are passing strict policies and regulations to improve human safety measures. Safety parameters at the combustion and gas producing industries play a vital role and many companies are looking for efficient devices to monitor the safety conditions at work.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The global styrenic polymers market is highly diversified with most companies offering maximum types of styrenic polymers with a wide range of usage in different applications. Polystyrene (PS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS) are the most commercialized styrene-based polymers in the market. The companies engaged in the production of these polymers are SABIC, Styron LLC, Eni S.P.A, Nova Chemical Corporation, and Kaneka Corporation. The styrene-based products are well-established in the market; however, due to their versatile properties and low price, they have gained an advantage over high-priced polymers.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The global styrenic polymers market is emerging with a positive growth due to the increasing number of applications in building & construction, packaging, automotive, etc. There is a continuous need of innovations in the applications and products to help sustain against the different substitutes available in the market. Therefore, all major companies have created advanced application technology centers for research and development worldwide.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The major two categories in the renewable chemical market are alcohols and polymers. The renewable alcohol market is relatively mature as compared to polymers. The top players operating in the renewable alcohol market are located in the U.S. Some of them are Abengoa Bioenergy Corp., Aventine Renewable Energy LLC, Center Ethanol Company, South Dakota, and Minnesota Energy. Among the major renewable alcohols, ethanol is the most commercialized segment.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Advanced functional materials are an obvious diversification from conventionally used materials.  Manufacturers across the world are compelled to develop sustainable materials that can address the escalating cost of energy. Advanced functional materials answer the intricate questions regarding sustainability not only at present but also in the near future.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Advanced functional materials are a sustainable solution for reducing energy consumption in almost all industries. However incorporating them in certain industries has yielded better results than others. These are specialty chemicals, electronics, aviation, healthcare and energy.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Renewable energy initiatives are being absorbed as part of the national energy policies all across the world. Nearly 138 countries globally, by 2012, have set their renewable energy targets to be achieved by 2020, whose implementation, however, remains challenged due to the lack of strong policy frame work, high project costs involved, resources availability and use, technology & infrastructure, and social factors.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The global demand for automobiles is increasing at a substantial rate since 2010. This growth is observed at an annual average growth rate (AAGR) of 4.42% (2010 - 2011) and 4.88% (2011 - 2012) in the recent years. Factors such as improving infrastructure, increased per capita income, enhanced standard of living, availability of easier financial options and need for the personal transportation are fueling the demand for personal cars. On the other hand, reasons such as, growing construction activities, increasing overall freight movement due to commercialization and industrialization are influencing the demand for commercial vehicles. This demand is projected to continue for next five years, and across all vehicle segments.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Information management for an organization is more important than Information technology and it requires a proper BI strategy. Hence, it is a complex task for them to achieve the goal of ‘making their information pay’. Traditionally, Business Intelligence (BI) started with line of business specific tools to find out answers from raw data of an enterprise, they have small data storages in various segments of their IT infrastructure, based on needs of different departments their data store is maintained and accordingly applications/tools are used to discover new data sources. But today it is backed up by powerful analytical capabilities for informed decision making and What–if Analysis i.e. determining how predicted performance is affected by alterations in their assumptions. Eventually organizations have become more dependent on their business processes data which secures the future position of BI. Using ETL (Extract, transform and load) methodology BI tools re-engineer or automate the existing business processes across the IT Infrastructure thereby helping businesses in accurate forecasts and increase their cross-sell revenue.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The internet has changed the way we work, socialize, create, share information, and organize the flow of people, ideas and things around the globe. It serves as a platform for business, communication, entertainment and education. The degree to which people use the internet to speak personal connection, public information and new knowledge is large and increasing. Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. However, it is surprising to note that two-thirds of the World’s population does not have Internet access.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Analytics is one of the most talked words nowadays in every industry. Be it a part of government, energy & utilities, transportation, retail, BFSI, manufacturing or other industries, at every point we are seeing an ANALYTICS- inclination towards analytics for better resource optimization, customer retention, and profitability. Business analytics software adoption is a global, cross- industry phenomenon represented by organizations of all sizes. Analytics market is taking a shift from organized data analysis to un-organized data impending from different sources including digital devices, network "Was, infrastructure, social network, customers data and so on.

    • Published: September 2013
  • DevOps is an emerging practice to minimize the latency and shorten the development and deployment cycle. The staples are the technical advancements and quick resolution requests from the user community. Concisely, Organizations demand for operational agility to be quick for responsiveness and so to gain competitive advantages. The traditional setups are required to be replaced via bringing out advancements being derived by IT innovators. Cloud operations, Virtualization and Software defined networking is some of them which would be pressing in upcoming years for organizations.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Travel & Transportation is becoming a priority to more people in rising economies: More people will travel farther faster. Better transportation opens more opportunities for shopping, employment, and social interaction beyond ones own neighbourhood or village, but longer commutes decrease the amount of time available for such activities. Situation around us is changing rapidly today, progressive aging of society in developed nations, increased population growth and urbanization in emerging nations, and an increasingly diverse range of energy sources. Technological innovations are rising what is expected from the automobile not just as a means of transport to something that plays additional roles in peoples life and society.

    • Published: September 2013
  • If the globe would have been impeccable, networks would manage themselves. Nevertheless, in the evident world, parts tend to shatter, modulations are made, someone has to compensate, performance is often below expectations and neglect of resources is certain.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Increasing population over the past years has been raising a number of questions regarding energy shortage and the increasing environmental problems. A large number of studies have acknowledged these problems (also, brought about awareness at various levels); and the process of tackling these issues has begun. With the growing awareness about energy conservation in mind, companies are opting for green solutions for their technologies and processes. By saving energy, energy costs can be saved. Also, through energy-efficient technologies, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions can be considerably reduced, thus providing a healthier environment. This has spurred the establishment of energy efficiency standards for electric motors, which are ubiquitous in their applications. IEC, NEMA and many other standards have been defined for electric motors in industrial and commercial applications.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The global agriculture adjuvants market is dominated by North America contributing 40.3% of the global market in 2012. U.S led the market in North America. Precision and controlled agriculture, adoption of advancement technology in agriculture, and increasing agrochemical consumption is driving the agriculture adjuvants market in North America. U.S leads the North America adjuvants market. Europe holds the second position in agriculture adjuvants market, which accounts for 22.0% share in 2012. Germany, France, Italy, and U.K. are the major consumers of adjuvants. In spite of being a major consumer of agrochemicals, the Asia-Pacific contributes only 17.1% of adjuvants consumption.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The increasing prices of agrochemicals have created a need for optimum and efficient utilization of agrochemical products. This can be done with help of adjuvnats. Along with the market players the farmers’ trend is also increasing towards the use of adjuvants along with the Agrochemicals like insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers. Surfactants are the major segment which is mostly used as an adjuvant. The adjuvants application is mostly dominated by the use of herbicides. Adjuvants lowers the surface tension of water in the spray mixture, increase sticking, dispersing, spreading, absorbing, pest penetrating properties of the spray solutions on a target surface area of the crop.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The growth of the drilling and completion fluids market is directly proportional to the ongoing drilling activities around the world. On the basis of various factors such as geological conditions, economic viabilities, etc., different types of drilling and completion fluids are used to assist drilling and completion activities.

    • Published: September 2013
  • In recent times, there have been lots of developments in terms of offshore drilling. The increasing world energy demands have pushed the drilling and exploration companies to venture towards deep and ultra deep waters. These deep and ultra deep water drilling activities have to be carried out under challenging geological conditions which require high-temperature and high-pressure compatible drilling and completion fluids in order to perform the drilling activities efficiently. The drilling and completion activities are also growing due to recent shale boom in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific among other regions.

    • Published: September 2013
  • The global drilling waste management market is likely to witness a CAGR of over 10% from 2013 to 2018. North America represents the largest market, followed by Europe. Emerging markets include South America and Africa with increasing recognition to protect the environment.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Drilling activities generate substantial amount of wastes that include fluids and excavated cuttings. These wastes have to be properly treated and disposed off to minimize the impact on the environment. With increasing environmental regulations being imposed quite strictly and stringent penalties for non compliance, oil and gas operators are forced to implement improved and effective drilling waste management practices. The drilling waste management market is therefore expected to show sound growth in the coming years.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Colorants are the substances that impart color to other things such as textiles, plastics, concrete and paper. Based on its solubility, these can be divided into two parts namely: Dyes and Pigments. The colorants impart color to the substance by reflecting light of a particular wavelength. The shade of a color thus depends on the amount of light reflected / scattered. Hence, a substance that reflects more light appears to be darker. However, in case of pigments, the light scattering also depends on the particle size and refractive index of pigments and its binders.

    • Published: September 2013
  • Pharmaceutical companies prefer to develop new drug delivery technologies for existing drugs as developing a new chemical entity (NCE) can be a more expensive and time-consuming process. Developing a new technology helps companies extend the patent life of their blockbuster drugs, which proves to be less time consuming and requires less monetary investments. In addition, drug delivery technologies improve the safety and efficacy of a drug as well as enhance the bioavailability and drug distribution throughout the body. These technologies reduce the dosing frequency, thereby increasing convenience and patient compliance. Such advantages make drug delivery technologies extremely significant in the pharmaceutical industry.

    • Published: August 2013
  • Use of various blends including hydrocolloids, emulsifiers, specialty starches, enzymes, and dietary fibers in order to improve the food texture is the major activity performed by food texturizing agents. Texturizing agents act as stabilizers, emulsifiers, binders, coating material, and thickeners that give a stable shape and good shelf life to food products. Such wide range of roles, coupled with the growing demand from the food and beverage industry, drives the market.

    • Published: August 2013
  • Agricultural equipment consists of farm field machinery used for purposes such as the production and growth of crops. Major pre-harvest product lines include planting and fertilizing machinery, tillage equipment, plant protection & irrigation equipment, and so on. The tillage and planting equipment are the major segments accounting for nearly 60% of the total market share. The manufacturing of self-propelled equipment has shown tremendous growth in the last two decades owing to its increased use by the farmers, facilitated by ease in the application.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The Asia-Pacific region has become an important region for key players in the industry, as the farmers have become open to mechanization. The farm equipment market in Asia-Pacific captures about 31% of the total market revenue. The market is expected to expand with a CAGR of 6.3% from 2013 to reach $17,767.2 million by 2018. This region is the emerging market with investments from several multinational manufacturers especially in major markets such as India and China. China is the main market in this region, accounting for 25% revenue. There are more global players in the market trying to enter this region by means of mergers, acquisitions or partnerships for business expansion. The Asia-Pacific market is expected to expand with the highest growth rate due to the increasing demand from countries such as India and China. The restraining factor in this market is high cost of equipment with small and fragmented land holding.

    • Published: August 2013
  • Herbicide tolerant, insect resistant, drought resistant, abiotic stresses tolerant and disease resistant traits are newly developedfor various Oilseed and Grain seeds for high yield production, minimum crop loss, higher nutritional value, control over waste of crop inputs, and maximum utilization of provided resources.

    • Published: August 2013
  • With worldwide presence, Monsanto headquartered at U.S. stands at prime position in the global seed market. Syngenta, Dupont, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, Limagrain and KWS altogether hold a major chunk of the global market, using various growth strategies to expand their presence and grab more revenue. As per categorization, in terms of conventional and trait seed, the grain seed dominates; whereas in oilseeds, being most economic and expedient, soybean controls largest shares.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The extensive study of the competitive landscape of the process automation and instrumentation market clearly portrays that the American market has most of the global market leaders as its top performers. The companies provide solutions related to PA & PI market as well as other automation solutions. We can clearly see that APAC has a significant number of players but lesser automated industries as of now. By this, we can understand that these players in the APAC market are serving the niche players. APAC will grow at the fastest rate in the coming five years due to the fast growth of the niche market as well as a better demand in the bigger industries.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The Energy Management Systems (EMS) market landscape is complex and highly fragmented. EMS vendors have multiple offerings with various degrees of product complexities ranging from simple energy monitoring dashboards to complex energy management solutions with high degree of analytics involved. EMS software types can be broadly categorized under industrial energy management, utility energy management, Demand Response (DR), Enterprise Energy and Carbon Management (ECEM), residential energy management, commercial Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS), energy modeling, energy trading and risk management, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) power management, and utility bill management. Each of these EMS applications has a different adoption rate.

    • Published: August 2013
  • Energy Security has gained importance due to increasing terrorist attack and cyber security threats. Along with this there is a lot of pressure from the governments to secure the energy and power plants by implementing strict regulatory policies and security compliances. Increasing energy markets in developing nations increase in extraction and distribution infrastructure and nations giving more importance to protect the existing power and energy infrastructure, have radically given a boost to the energy security market. 

    • Published: August 2013
  • There has been a significant rise in the threats and attacks on critical infrastructures all over the globe. The power plants and energy resources are also not detached from these attacks and they are posing major threats. These attacks are typical physical attacks on the facilities and cyber attacks on the networks. To safeguard the power plants and the total energy sector, almost every country and the power companies are turning towards robust energy security solutions.  
    There are major companies which are providing dedicated energy security solutions which include both physical security and network and cyber security solutions to safeguard the power plants.  The solutions provided are highly sophisticated and provides a strong fortification to the facilities from outside threats and vulnerabilities.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The electric vehicle range extender market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 11.89% during the forecast period, to reach 479,027 units by 2025 from an estimated 218,129 units in 2018.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The managed services market has gained importance in the recent past, majorly due to the success rates of cloud based services. Enterprises SMB are showing an increased interest in outsourcing their IT services to expert third party vendors, i.e. the MSP. While cost and services levels are still vital IT components, ensuring that the outsourced services are optimized to deliver the right business value is now a top criterion. Businesses are turning to managed services to increase their productivity and to lower their costs for their non-core IT solutions, which will allow them to focus more on their core strategic business initiatives. Organizations comprehend that they require more managed services to gain advanced technological improvements, bring innovative applications, and offer superior security features. This will enable them to keep up with the latest trends in IT and gain competitive advantage in the market. Managed services enable organizations lessen the time consumed by the in-house processes and decrease the administrative burden of several platforms, which were earlier interfering with the central part of these businesses processes.

    • Published: August 2013
  • Globally, community cloud market has recently gained importance due to the increasing IT budget, security and regulatory compliance issues, requirement of high performance and low latency network infrastructure. Moreover, in industries such as healthcare, banking and finance exponential increase in customer data and transaction information demands for cost effective data storage, retrieval and computation services. Further, organizations are required to follow government compliance standards such as FISMA and HIPAA and community cloud model provides the multi-tenant service platform answering these requirements for several organizations.

    • Published: August 2013
  • The community cloud model is a forth rising wave across all the verticals, with significant investment targeting public sector markets. It is observed that increasing IT budget, scalability and maintenance cost has lead organizations in various industries to shift towards cloud market to overcome total cost of ownership (TCO) in past few years. Furthermore, inclusion of governance, security and regulatory compliance such as FISMA and HIPAA has leaded the organizations to adopt community cloud model. MarketsandMarkets observes that the community cloud technologies are built around the cloud computing technologies, with the main difference of its applications and usage based on the functionalities, requirements and compliance regulations followed by the organization in a particular vertical. The increasing community cloud deployment across verticals such as government, BFSI, healthcare, transportation and logistics, gaming and others (media and non-profit organizations).

    • Published: August 2013
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