IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS

• The world market for equipment and bags will exceed $4.5 billion by 2003.

• China will be the largest purchaser in the cement and metals segment while the U.S. will be the leader in power plant fabric filter purchases.

• The industry remains splintered with the top 3 equipment companies achieving a combined market share of less than 20% while the top 3 bag suppliers have only a 30% market share.

• Radical changes in filtration media shape and performance are changing the approach to traditional applications and expanding the market at the expense of precipitators (cement and power).

• Health concerns over submicron particle inhalation will add momentum to the market and require the use of higher efficiency media.

• The modular small collector market (less than 2,000 cfm) is a sizable and profitable market segment.

• The largest growth will come in the high temperature segment (greater than 350° F).

• The market for integrated systems which remove both particles and gases (such as S02 and HCl) will grow at a double digit rate.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Forecasts for 80 countries and regions are forecast for 5 years.

• For each country there are separate forecasts in each industry application.

• In each industry application there are forecasts for each cleaning type and each media type.

• Market shares and market leadership positions are provided for hundreds of companies.

• One whole volume is devoted to product descriptions and corporate data on more than 1,000 suppliers of equipment, media, components and services.

• Impacts of regulations in each major country.

• Major industry trends such as use of fabric filters in existing electrostatic precipitators and combining kiln and transfer point exhausts in cement plants.

• Important developments in collector design, cleaning, membranes, cartridges, coatings, microfibers, and integrated systems.

• Opportunities for components such as valves, bag monitors, and particularly mass continuous monitors.

• More than 10,000 basic forecasts are also included (coal-fired capacity in MW, cement capacity in tpy etc.).

Chapter I: Summary and Background
Revenue forecasts are summarized by industry, region and year in each product category. Major trends are identified.

Chapter II: Products/Costs/Historical Markets
A. Costs: initial and annual cost are included for products and services. Profitability, value-added and other financial percentages are also included.
B. Precise definitions and ratios between cfm, costs, and selling prices are tabulated.
C. Relative usage of each cleaning type for each application is charted. Percentage of membranes, non wovens, and wovens is provided for each industry. Ratios of cartridge versus tubular configurations are also provided.
D. 1998 sales and market shares are included for mre than 150 equipment companies and 100 bag makers. Regional rankings are also provided.

Chapter III: Asia
Country by country analysis of regulatory and industry trends includes more extensive analyses for the larger markets but also quantifies significant industrial segments such as the metals market in India.

Chapter IV: Europe, Middle East and Africa
Country by country analysis includes coverage of E.U. initiatives and significant regulations in major countries such as T.A. Luft in Germany.

Chapter V: Americas
Impact of fine particulate and hazardous air pollutant regulations are included in the extensive analysis of the U.S. The country by country analysis includes smelter activities in Chile and incinerator activities in Canada.

Chapter VI: Power Plant
New coal fired boiler plans as well as retrofit requirements in each country are included. Relative usage of fabric filters and precipitators is determined. Forecasts are provided for bags and collectors in dollars, cfm and MW.

Chapter VII: Food and Pharmaceuticals
The present size of the food industry for each country and future collector and bag purchases in grain and other food applications are provided. Basic industry activity plus forecasts in each country are provided for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Chapter VIII: Pulp and Paper
Present and future pulp and paper production for each country provides the basis for forecasts of fabric filter and bag revenues. 4 product segments x 80 countries x 5 years = 1800 individual forecasts.

Chapter IX: Cement and Glass
Present and future cement production in tpy is presented for each country. 1800 forecasts are provided.

Chapter X: Metals and Mining
Steel production in millions of tons per year is provided for each country. Copper and other mining production projections are also included. 1800 forecasts are provided in each of the categories.

Chapter XI: Chemical Industry
Future growth of the chemical industry measured in sales dollars is projected in each country. 1800 Fabric filter equipment, systems, bag and cartridge forecasts are included.

Chapter XII: Waste Incineration and Miscellaneous Applications
Municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, and medical waste incineration activity is combined in a country by country analysis resulting in a presentation of percent of world market for each country. These percentages are used to develop the 1800 forecasts which take into account retrofits and new systems. A separate set of basic statistics and filter and bag forecasts is provided for the miscellaneous category which includes a large number of small niche applications.

Chapter XIII: World Forecast
The forecasts for each country of the world are presented. Total sales and sales for each industry are presented for each of the 5 years in the forecast period. Since there are separate forecasts for equipment, systems, bags and cartridges, the total in each country is 10 industry segments x 4 product segments x 5 years = 200 forecasts per country x 80 countries = 16,000 forecasts.

Chapter I: Product Index
A Key word index allows quick identification of individual companies under each product and service heading.

Chapter II: Basic Company Information
Addresses, personnel names and titles and product listings are provided for equipment, component and service companies around-the-world.

Chapter III: Company Profiles
Product, corporate, market share and financial information is provided for each company with extensive multi-page reports on the largest participants and brief paragraphs on smaller companies.

Fabric Filter & Bag Forecast Program on Disk
Thousands of forecast ratios for each industry in each country are included in a program which allows the user to generate customized forecasts. Excel format is compatible with most PCs.

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