Two-thirds of the Cleanroom Laundry Business Is in Asia

In 2016 cleanroom garment processing facilities (laundries) will generate revenues of just under $1.5 billion.  Two-thirds of these revenues will be generated in Asia.  These revenues include the garments processed by outside laundries as well as the ones processed by the cleanroom operators.

Some of the U.S. and European based cleanroom laundries have moved into Asia.

Prudential Ampri Cleanroom Services (PACS) is a joint venture between Prudential Overall Supplies of the USA and Ampri Rubberware Industries of Malaysia.  In 2015, PACS became fully owned by Ampri.

CWS-boco provides cleanroom services in Ireland, China, Poland and Belgium.  In 2014, the company opened a cleanroom laundry in Heidenheim to meet the growing demand for cleanroom clothing in the microelectronics sector.  In 2015, CWS-boco took over Zahn-Hitex, the full-service provider for cleanroom laundry services.  So this is one example of internationalization of the cleanroom laundry business.

In Taiwan SUNRAY operates a Class 1 cleanroom with advanced cleanroom laundry equipment in Taoyuan Longtan. This facility was designed and built for the operations required for an ultra-clean laundry. Taiwan is a major semiconductor producer.

Consolidation of the laundry business in Europe is dictated by the slower growth in this region. Scottish textile services company, Fishers, has sold its cleanroom laundry business to Fenland Laundries.  Fenland’s acquisition of the Livingston-based business is in line with the company’s strategy of growing its cleanroom business in the UK under its Micronclean brand.

For more information click on N6F World Cleanroom Markets.

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Coal Is Still King in Sales of Ultrapure Water Systems

Power plants will spend over $1 billion for ultrapure water systems, replacement parts and consumables in 2016.

Despite the negative publicity toward coal in the West, the bulk of the new system purchases will be for coal-fired boilers.  Most of this activity will be in Asia.

New ultrapure water systems for gas turbine/combined cycle power plants will account for only 25 percent of the total.  One reason is that the size of the ultrapure water system for a combined cycle power plant is only half the size of the system for a coal-fired power plant of similar output.

The consumables and aftermarket is dominated by coal-fired power plants.  Replacement pumps and valves, water treatment chemicals and improved instrumentation expenditures by Chinese, U.S. and other major coal-fired boiler operators will account for 70 percent of the total.

Large coal-fired boiler construction programs in India, Vietnam and Indonesia will boost the world market in the next five years.

The forecast for new systems and consumables is found in N029 Ultrapure Water: World Market. 

Each new coal-fired power plant is tracked in 43I Utility People.

Each gas turbine combined cycle power plant is tracked in 59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program.

Bob McIlvaine
President
847-784-0012 ext. 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
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