Cleanroom Consumables Market Will Grow Modestly in 2010
Thanks to the pharmaceutical industry and to general activity in Asia, the
market for cleanroom consumables will grow one percent next year and reach sales
of $6.6 billion. This is the latest forecast displayed online in World Cleanroom
Markets. This report is published by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com).
Cleanroom Consumables - $ Millions
Subject 2010
Disposable Clothing 634
Gloves 1,382
Laundry 1,283
Paper 107
Reusable Clothing 724
Other Supplies 1,695
Wipes 814
Total 6,639
Single use garment sales will be slightly less than reusables in 2010. But the
rental revenues for reusables reflecting both the garment sales and the
processing (laundering) will generate three times the revenues of the single use
garments.
The issue of greenhouse gas emissions related to single use garments could act
as a deterrent for this selection. But a new study by McIlvaine shows that the
total environmental burden including the water contamination incurred in washing
reusable garments is similar for both single use and reusables.
Cleanroom hardware sales in 2010 are pegged at $4.7 billion. Hardware revenues
are more volatile than consumables. There was substantial shrinkage in flat
panel and semiconductor revenues in the last 18 months, but a slow recovery will
result in modest growth in 2010. The pharmaceutical segment will experience 2
percent growth in 2009 and a likely 7 percent growth in 2010.
Asia will continue to set the pace in the cleanroom market. This region will
account for 60 percent of the cleanroom hardware sales in 2010 and 61 percent of
the cleanroom consumables. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan will continue to play a
big role. But China is the fastest growing cleanroom market in the region.
Europe has experienced the greatest shrinkage over recent years and will account
for only 14 percent of cleanroom consumables in 2010. The Irish cleanroom market
has been particularly hard hit in the recent downturn.
However European hardware and consumables suppliers have internationalized and,
therefore, offset the shrinking home market with overseas sales. Camfil is a
good example of this internationalization. American companies such as Lydall,
Donaldson, Filtration Group, Hollingsworth & Vose, W.L Gore, and American Air
Filter have Asian manufacturing facilities and are competing successfully in the
local Asian Markets. In the case of American Air Filter there is even an Asian
owner of the company.
For more information on World Cleanroom Markets, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/cleanroom.html
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Bob McIlvaine
847-784-0012 ext. 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com