Advanced Phase Change Materials (PCM) Market: Global Forecast (2010-2015)
03 Jun 2011 • by Natalie Aster
Wilmington – The PCM market is expected to see an influx of innovative products for use in various applications. However, lack of awareness is a major challenge. To increase awareness about the efficacy and environment friendly qualities of the PCMs, several key players have entered into commercial partnerships with end-users such as architects, builders, and textile manufacturers and organize conferences pertaining to the PCM market. A very interesting fact that emerged from our discussion with the various key players in the market is that currently the companies are not looking at each other as competitors as their major objective is to increase awareness about the PCMs in the end-user market. According to the established players, a new company that enters the PCM market helps increase awareness of the PCM products. Almost all the major players have got together and created quality standards (for the PCMs) for effective penetration of the products in the market. BASF, Rubitherm, SGL, Emco and others have come together to form a quality standard RAL in the European market.
The report “Advanced Phase Change Materials (PCM) Market: Global Forecast (2010-2015)” by MarketsandMarkets categorizes the global market for phase change material on the basis of applications, materials, and geography. Each section provides market data, market drivers, trends and opportunities, top-selling products, key players, and competitive outlook. The report provides market tables for covering the sub-segments and micro-markets, and more than 20 company profiles covering all the sub-segments.
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Advanced Phase Change Materials (PCM) Market: Global Forecast (2010-2015)
Published: June 2010
Pages: 201
Price: US$ 4,650.00 US$ 4,420.00
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FACTORS INFLUENCING MARKET GROWTH
Phase change materials are temperature stabilizing energy saving products, which store heat for transformation to other forms such as electricity. Thus, energy saving (power efficiency) is the main driver for the market. The second attribute that is influencing the market is the environment friendliness of the PCM products. For example, effective use of PCMs in the building and construction sector can significantly eliminate the requirement for traditional generators, heaters and coolers and therefore help in reducing emission of green house gases. PCM is also gaining more and more attention as there are strict regulations in Europe and the U.S. over the reduction of green house gases.
Other important factors affecting market growth are low maintenance, long operating life and innovative applications. Low maintenance and long operating life of PCMs reduce operating costs for the consumers. New applications and product developments in the PCM market is expected to increase penetration of PCM products in almost all sectors.
However, lack of awareness and high price are negatively impacting the market. Consumption of PCM products is low as the market does not have a complete understanding of the wide ranging benefits of these products. This has resulted in increased marketing budgets of the companies and that in turn has increased the price of PCM products. Though, with increasing awareness levels, the market is expected to grow exponentially also resulting in prices coming down in the near future. The market also suffers from integration issues (of PCM in end products) due to limitations of the existing raw materials such as paraffin and salt hydrates (discussed in great detail in the PCM raw materials chapter). However, companies such as BASF have come up with innovative integration technologies such as microencapsulation to enhance the integration capabilities of PCMs into end products.
More information can be found in the report “Advanced Phase Change Materials (PCM) Market: Global Forecast (2010-2015)” by MarketsandMarkets.
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