The report offers strategic recommendations based on a review of the opportunities that currently exist in printing equipment as well as curing and integration equipment. The report also features an assessment of the specific manufacturing requirements that need to be followed for disparate process such as printing, sintering, curing, and more.
Printing Equipment for Printed Electronics 2015-2025
Furthermore, the report identifies key growth areas within the market for printing equipment for printed electronics to reveal opportunities that exist therein. The report assesses the following facets for each type of sintering and printing technology: Analysis of the existing applications of printed electronics printing technology, technology development roadmaps, compatibility with other processes, opportunities and trends, and ten-year estimates based on printing type.
Critical printing technologies analyzed in the report include: Screen printing, coating systems, flexo printing, inkjet printing, nano imprinting, and transfer printing. In addition, the study includes an analysis of three widely-employed post-printing processes: UV and IR curing, thermal drying, and photonic curing.
The report notes that currently, screen printing is the dominant segment when it comes to commercial printed electronic products. Simultaneously, the industry is showing more interest in exploring high volume flexo printing and inkjet printing. Consequently, these printing types are now expeditiously moving from the R&D phase to the pilot projects space, and some have even reached commercial production.
Increased investments from governments to help companies foray into manufacturing technology have further helped the cause of the printing equipment for printed electronics market. The positive effects of these investments are already visible, especially in Europe. However, America continues to trail because of a somewhat dull government funding scenario here.
The trajectory of the printing equipment and printed electronics market is heavily influenced by the organizations operating within it. Over the past few years, substantial investments have been injected into the flexible electronics industry, creating palpable demand for printing equipment for printed electronics. The fine chemicals industry, especially, had a key role to play in the development of flexible and organic electronics. In the last couple of years, however, the stakes of the equipment industry have risen. There are now several instances where equipment has been designed from the bottom up especially in view of the emerging opportunities in the field.
Upcoming Reports:
(1) - Sulfur Chemicals Market - Global Industry Expert Opinions Analysis, Emerging Opportunities, Market Size, Share, Growth Drivers, Market Trends, Statistics And Forecast 2015 - 2020
Sulfur is one the most important raw material of the chemical industry. Majority of sulfur is used in preparation of its derivatives such as sulfuric acid, sodium hydro sulfide, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium sulfite, sodium sulfide and sodium thiosulfate. Sodium sulfites include dry and liquid sodium sulfite, sodium bisulfate solution and sodium metabisulfite. These chemicals are majorly used in applications like paper, pulp and textile processing, food and photographic industries and in water treatment as reducing and precipitating agent.
Sulfur chemicals are used in food applications and the growth in food industry is accompanied by relevant growth in the demand for sulfur chemicals. Sulfur chemicals are used as preservatives for increasing the shelf life of food. There has been growing demand for food and food products from Asia Pacific owing to increasing population in these regions. Countries such as China, India are witnessing an increase in the disposable income. Hence, the consumption of processed food is also on the rise in these regions, due to changing lifestyles in this region. In regions such as South America, Africa and Southeast Asia the demand for processed food has grown in the recent past and is expected to increase further in the next few years. The increase in wealth and the growing demand for processed food is expected to drive the preservatives market and subsequently sulfur chemicals market in the next few years.
(2) - Hydrogen Cyanide Market - Global Industry Expert Opinions Analysis, Emerging Opportunities, Market Size, Share, Growth Drivers, Market Trends, Statistics And Forecast 2015 - 2020
Hydrogen cyanide is also known as prussic acid. Hydrogen cyanide is an inorganic compound that is colorless in nature. Hydrogen cyanide is extremely poisonous liquid which boils at the slightly above room temperature. Hydrogen cyanide is weakly acidic and partially ionizes in the water solutions to form cyanide ions. Hydrogen cyanide has a faint, bitter, almond like smell that sometimes is undetected. Hydrogen cyanide is usually manufactured in large quantities at an industrial scale. Hydrogen cyanide is an essential and highly valuable precursor for the manufacturing of a range of chemical compounds from polymers to that of pharmaceuticals. Hydrogen cyanide is included among the chemical welfare (CW) list of chemicals that are known to be poisonous in nature.
The growing chemical industry is expected to boost the overall global demand for hydrogen cyanide. The major chemicals manufactured using hydrogen cyanide includes cyanohydrins, sodium cyanide, adiponitrile, methionine, cyanuric chlorile and chelating agents. Most of the hydrogen cyanide manufactured is consumed as an intermediate in the production of the range of chemicals. Hydrogen cyanide is widely used in the manufacturing of sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide. Sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide are widely used in the mining of silver and gold. Sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide is also widely used for electroplating of these chemicals.
(3) - Phosphate Esters Market - Global Industry Expert Opinions Analysis, Emerging Opportunities, Market Size, Share, Growth Drivers, Market Trends, Statistics And Forecast 2015 - 2020
Phosphate ester which is also known as organophosphate is abbreviated as OP. Phosphate ester is a general name that is used to refer the esters of phosphoric acid. Phosphate ester includes a wide spectrum of physical and chemical properties. Using the hydrolysis process alcohols can be easily separated from phosphate esters. Phosphate esters are a group of synthetic chemical compounds that mainly comprises of carbon, phosphorus and hydrogen. Phosphate ester is mainly found as essential biochemical in DNA and RNA of plant and animal cell. Phosphate esters are widely used in the manufacturing of insecticides, nerve agents and herbicides. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has listed phosphate ester as highly toxic to humans, wildlife and bees. Phosphate esters are widely employed for a wide range of synthetic as well as natural applications owing to the ease with which the organic groups can be linked with each other. Phosphate ester finds wide range of applications as solvents, plasticizers, and EP additives. Phosphate esters are common carriers of organic groups in several biosynthesis processes. The most commonly used phosphate esters include malathion, parathion, methyl parathion, diazinon, phosmet, tetrachlorvinphos, azamethiphos, fenitrothion and azinphos methyl.
(4) - Sodium Sulfate Market - Global Industry Expert Opinions Analysis, Emerging Opportunities, Market Size, Share, Growth Drivers, Market Trends, Statistics And Forecast 2015 - 2020
Sodium sulfate is an anhydrous sodium salt of sulfuric acid found naturally as mirabilite. Sodium sulfate is primarily used for the manufacturing of detergents and used in the Kraft process of paper pulping. China is the largest exporter and producer of sodium sulfate. The demand for sodium sulfate from detergent applications is expected to show steady growth in the next few years, while the demand for sodium sulfate from paper and pulp processing is expected to grow at a slower rate. Sodium sulfate is mainly sourced from mirabilite, a natural source of sodium sulfate. Globally, China accounted for over two thirds of sodium sulfate production. Anhydrous sodium sulfate is produced in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang Uygur. The provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai are estimated to have large sodium sulfate deposits. China is also estimated to have one of the largest deposits of mirabilite and has recently set up new production bases in order to increase the production of sodium sulfate further and meet global demands.
The demand for sodium sulfate is primarily driven by the detergent market. Sodium sulfate is used for the production of dry detergent powders. Since the consumption of dry detergent powder is higher than liquid detergents in most of the countries across the globe, therefore the demand for sodium sulfate in detergent applications is expected to remain high in the next few years. Dry detergent powders in regions such as Asia Pacific and Latin America, where the dry detergents are preferred over liquid detergents. The demand is especially high in countries such as China, India, Brazil, Indonesia etc. Sodium sulfate is also used in the Kraft process in paper and pulp processing and t is also used in textile applications.
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