Asian infrastructure investments drive world's sedimentation/centrifugation equipment market

Worldwide orders for sedimentation and centrifugation equipment will grow from $4.3 million in 2001 to $5.7 billion in 2006. Clarifiers and thickeners, decanter centrifuges, basket centrifuges, disk separators, dissolved air floatation systems, and hydrocyclones are all included in a continuously updated online report.
Feb. 22, 2002
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Worldwide orders for sedimentation and centrifugation equipment will grow from $4.3 million in 2001 to $5.7 billion in 2006. Clarifiers and thickeners, decanter centrifuges, basket centrifuges, disk separators, dissolved air floatation systems, and hydrocyclones are all included in a continuously updated online report.

Some of the key findings include:

1. Growth in Asia will exceed that of either Europe or North America.

Infrastructure investments such as municipal water and wastewater treatment

plants will be major drivers.

2. Mining will be a major segment of the South American market over the

five-year period.

3. Decanter centrifuges will continue to outsell belt filter presses for

municipal wastewater applications particularly for plants treating more than

five million gallons per day.

4. Dissolved air flotation sales will be buoyed by strong Asian drinking

water growth and hazardous disinfection byproduct concerns in municipal

water treatment.

5. Hydrocyclone sales will be strong in South America due to purchases by

mining companies. Power plant flue gas desulfurization applications will

boost the U.S. hydrocyclone market.

6. Double digit disk separator order growth will be experienced in

biotechnology applications.

7. Municipal wastewater treatment plants and food manufacturers will be the

largest purchasers over the next five years.

8. Consolidation and stabilization of the industry will occur. Hundreds of

small suppliers have already been acquired by just three European based

companies. Several other large players have been made available for sale by

their parent companies.

9. The industry will lose many of its medium sized companies leaving a few

large suppliers and nearly 1,000 small companies serving specific

geographical and application niches.

10. Technical innovations will continue to be significant, but most of these

innovations will come not from government and not from the big suppliers but

from the small entrepreneurial companies.

For more information on Sedimentation & Centrifugation World Markets visit

www.mcilvainecompany.com or E-mail: [email protected].

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