Subject: Hot spots for water treatment chemicals
While the entire water and wastewater treatment chemicals market is proceeding with single-digit growth, there are hot spots which will enjoy double-digit growth over the next five years. Some of these are application hot spots and some are geographical hot spots.
Sales of cleaning chemicals for membranes will expand at double-digit rates. In fact, in drinking and wastewater applications where ultrafiltration and microfiltration membranes are installed, cleaning chemical sales increased 60 percent in 2003. The rapid increase in desalination system sales is leading to similar increases in chemical sales.
Removal of heavy metals from wastewater is now being mandated for power plants and for a wide variety of metal working plants. This has led to an increase in treatment chemical use in this sector. However, this growth will accelerate over the next five years.
Odor control is as important in China as it is in Germany or the U.S. As a result, municipal wastewater treatment plants are raising their budgets for the purchase of treatment chemicals.
Municipal water reuse is another hotspot for treatment chemicals. The world’s population is increasing while supplies of potable water are not. So water reuse will become increasingly necessary.
The impact of these hot spots on revenues of biocides, polymers, and other treatment chemicals is quantified country by country in Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/water.html#NO26 .
Bob McIlvaine
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