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Weekly selected highlights in flow control, treatment and combustion from the many McIlvaine publications.

·        Nuclear Flow, Treat, IIOT and Remote O&M markets will be covered In October 18 webinar

·       Two Thousand Companies make or influence most of the Pump Purchases

·       WEFTEC Exhibition was Impressive

Nuclear Flow, Treat, IIOT and Remote O&M markets will be covered In October 18 webinar

Mcilvaine will conduct a webinar on October 18^th, which will provide insights to the market for combust flow and treat products and services for the nuclear power industry.   A number of specific product forecasts will be reviewed.  A summary  is available at: Five Companies will be Responsible for 39 Percent of the Combust, Flow and Treat Purchases in the Nuclear Power Sector Next Year

The webinar will also address the potential for IIoT and Remote O&M.  The nuclear industry has been in some respects a leader but in other respects is not taking advantage of the many new developments in the field.

The nuclear industry is highly regulated.  Many nuclear plants are closing in Europe and the U.S. Decommissioning may take decades.  The need for subject matter experts will remain even though many of the most knowledgeable people are retiring.

There is a big potential to encourage retiring experts in the U.S. and Europe to become part of a subject matter expert team to provide support for remote monitoring of plants in Asia as well as those elsewhere.  There has been much research on knowledge management for the industry. Curtiss Wright has been a leader with conferences on the subject. 

Remote condition monitoring of valves and pumps is important to maintain the highest levels of safety.  The improvement in data analytics will provide the information needed to improve the design of all the flow control equipment.  Cloud based systems need to be ultra-secure due to potential terrorist vulnerability.  Options will be addressed.

This webinar will be held on next Wednesday at 10:00AM and will include a 50 minute presentation plus a subsequent question period   You can register at  Free Market Webinars

Two Thousand Companies make or influence most of the Pump Purchases

In 2018 purchases of industrial pumps will exceed $56 billion.  Most of these purchases will be made or influenced by 2000 companies and just 20,000 people.  In N019 Pumps World Market McIlvaine is projecting the individual company purchases.  Forecasts for 200 purchasers are presently displayed but more will be added each month. The 200 companies will purchase 20 percent of the total.   Several large company purchases will exceed $500 million each.  The top 20 companies will account for 7 percent of the total.

The concentration of purchases varies by industry.  The top three oil and gas purchasers will account for more than 15 percent of the oil and gas pump purchases.  The top 17 power companies will account for 55 percent of the pump purchases for power applications. The Shenhua merger with Guodian creates a company which will make 9 percent of the pump purchases in the power industry. 

The top three mining companies will account for 12 percent of mining pump purchases.  The top seven pharmaceutical manufacturers will represent 20 percent of the pharmaceutical purchases. The food manufacturing pump purchases are more fragmented.  The top 10 purchasers will account for just 12percent of the total. The top three pulp and paper purchasers will carve out a 12 percent share.

Purchases for municipal wastewater are dispersed. The Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District with seven plants will spend $80 million for pumps in 2018.  This represents just 0.44 percent of the world municipal wastewater total.  Suez both owns and operates plants and functions as an EPC and accounts for significant purchases of pumps.

EPCs are important purchasers in many industries.  Jacobs has acquired CH2M and is an important EPC and operator in wastewater and some other industries.

The rapid adoption of IIoT and Remote O&M is leading to centralized decision making relative to pumps.  In the near future just 20,000 people will be making most of the high performance pump decisions.  High performance accounts for 60 percent of the total pump revenues.

The forecasts are displayed in a number of different ways including one by purchase rankings.  This provides management with a target list of most important prospects.   The display by industry will be most useful to the industry specialists.  The location display can be used by the local sales personnel. This identification of the corporate potential by country supplements the detailed forecasts in the report which are segmented by country, industry, and pump type.

For more information on this report click on: N019 Pumps World Market

For information on a marketing program to address this new environment click on:

Marketing Program for Combust, Flow and Treat

For answers to questions contact Bob McIlvaine at rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com  847-784-0012 ext. 112

WEFTEC Exhibition was Impressive

Over 30,000 people viewed 1000 exhibition stands at McCormick Place last week.  Most of the exhibits involved combust, flow, and or treat. The following analysis of the market was provided to the exhibitors

Flow and Treat Purchases by U.S. Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators will exceed $13 billion this Year

Bob Mcilvaine can answer questions and can be reached at: rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com 847-784-0012 ext. 112