Chemicals and Materials

This research service presents Frost & Sullivan’s outlook for the global nutrition and wellness ingredients industry in 2022. The 5 key end-use sectors covered are food and beverage (F&B), dietary supplements, personal care and cosmetics, animal feed additives, and pet nutrition ingredients. The market analysis is presented at the ingredient manu...

Frost & Sullivan’s annual outlook for the plastics and composites industry provides an overview of the industry in 2021 and highlights disruptive, transformational, and competitive trends that are expected to impact industry growth in 2022. The protracted disruption of the supply chain because of natural calamities, ensuing force majeure events, ...

This study analyzes the transformative Mega Trends, disruptive technologies, and industry convergence scenarios that are expected to impact the coatings, adhesives and sealants, and elastomers (C.A.S.E.) market in 2022. While supply chain disruption and spikes in raw material prices remain crucial challenges for stakeholders across the value chain,...

This market insight analyzes the global microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCM) market in building and construction. MPCMs are incorporated into building and construction components such as panels, gypsum boards, insulation panels, wallboards, and other building materials. Components are used in construction of the flooring, drywalls, concr...

The Research Service titled "Technology Innovations in Smart Fabrics" offers a detailed assessment on technological advancements and market for Smart Fabrics. This emerging technology, which is in a rapid developmental stage is impacted by a number of business accelerators and challenges on the stakeholder front. Geographical hotspots have been id...

This market insight is about microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCM) as incorporated into textile components such as fibers, yarns, fabrics, foams and gels. These textile components, when used in manufacturing garments, apparel, bedding and mattresses, become endowed with temperature control properties. Temperature control relative to ambie...

This research service identifies the major industry drivers, restraints, regional trends, and segment trends in the global HP foams market. The research covers 4 regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of World and accounts for revenue generated from urethane, silicone, and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) foams used in construction an...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on September 3, 2014, discusses Thermo Fisher Scientifics divestment of laboratory equipment company Cole-Parmer to GTCR, the increasing use of large animal biotechnology in human health applications, the collaboration of Life Technologies and RainTree Oncology Services, the agreement between Ventana and Quintile...

Lead acid (LA) chemistry is one of the oldest, and commercially most well-established, battery technologies. In the past 1520 years, LA batteries have faced increasing competition from advanced battery technologies, perhaps most importantly from lithium ion. In response, the LA battery industry has invested significant R&D resources to improve t...