Air Filtration Insights

Air Filtration Insights

No. 28 June 2014

WELCOME

This bi-weekly Air Filtration Insight provides excerpts from the McIlvaine Air Filtration and Purification World Markets. It also provides excerpts from related publications. The market report provides the latest forecasts, market shares and insights relative to technology and opportunities.

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Many projects, mergers and acquisitions are detailed in monthly updates in the Market Report’s Chapters under Industry Analysis.

AMERICAS

United States

CEOs have slightly lower expectations for U.S. gross domestic product growth than they did last quarter, according to a new survey.

The Business Roundtable survey showed chief executives forecast GDP growth of 2.3% in 2014, down from last quarter's estimate of 2.4% for the year. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Columbia

Colombia’s economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter, beating all analysts’ forecasts, after a surge in government spending ahead of President Manuel Santos’ re-election. Bond fell on expectations of higher interest rates.

Gross domestic product grew 6.4% from the year earlier, the national statistics agency said, compared with 4.9% in the previous three months. Growth was faster than forecast by all 27 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. GDP grew 2.3% from the previous quarter. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

ASIA

China

Nearly every story about China’s extraordinary growth over the past 30 years asserts two things as a given:

b. China’s long-term growth record in unsurpassed in modern history. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

India

After two consecutive years of sub-5% growth, the Indian economy is expected to recover and expand 5.2% in the first quarter of this financial year, according to a Dun & Bradstreet report. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Japan

The Japanese government raised its economic growth reading for the first quarter, saying that capital spending was sharply higher than initially thought.

Gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 6.7% in the January to March period from the previous quarter, the Cabinet Office said, revising its initial estimate of a 5.9% expansion. The result, adjusted for price changes, marked the sixth straight quarterly expansion. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

Dubai

Dubai’s economy expanded 4.6% year on year in 2013, up from 4.1% in 2012 according to Dubai Statistics Centre (DSC).

The DSC report showed that the fastest growing sector in Dubai last year was once again hospitality, which recorded 13% growth, the third consecutive year of double-digit growth in this sector. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Ireland

GDP will grow by 2% this year and 2.4% next year on the back of rising exports and the first increase in consumer spending since the recession began, according to the EY Economic Eye. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said the recent rebasing of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will support its quest to be among the top 20 nations by 2020.

According to Emefiele, the exercise which placed the size of the Nigerian economy as first in Africa and 26th in the world would also afford the country a more positive sovereign rating by international rating agencies such as the Standard and Poor's, Fitch Ratings, (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

Russia

Russia's gross domestic product growth forecast of 0.5% for 2014 may be revised upwards in September due to the slowing pace of a decline in investment, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said.

"For now our official (forecast) for this year is 0.5%, but most likely we will revise it in September, most likely upwards," Ulyukayev told journalists. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)

A complete analysis of GDP and Monthly Updates for individual countries is included as part of Air Filtration and Purification World Market.

This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.

Project Title	First Entry Date	Location	Startup date
Zubair GT-Ministry of Electricity	5/7/2014	Iraq	Unknown
Shat Al Basra CCGT Phase 1-Ministry of Electricity	5/7/2014	Iraq	2016
Erbil combined cycle converson-Mass Group Holding	5/7/2014	Iraq	2015
Dohuk combined cycle converson-Mass Group Holding	5/7/2014	Iraq	2016
Al-Emarah GT-Ministry of Electricity	5/7/2014	Iraq	2015
Nasiriya CCGT Phase 1-Ministry of Electricity	10/1/2013	Iraq	2016
Khormala Phase I CCGT-Ministry of Electricity	6/1/2012	Iraq	2014
Al-Anbar CCGT-Ministry of Electricity	5/1/2012	Iraq	2016
Qayara GT-Ministry of Electricity	6/1/2011	Iraq	2014
Amara CCGT Phase 1-Ministry of Electricity	4/1/2011	Iraq	2014
Al-Najibiya CCGT Phase 1-Ministry of Electricity	4/1/2011	Iraq	2015
Sulaymaniyah conversion to combined cycle-Mass Global Holding	2/1/2010	Iraq	2015
Dibis GT-Ministry of Electricity	2/1/2009	Iraq	2014
Baiji II GT-Ministry of Electricity	2/1/2009	Iraq	2014

New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.