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,...

The printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in electronic components are prone to the adverse effects of external environments, which may lead to short circuits or overall system failure. Rising concerns among electrical manufacturers to protect the board and its components from moisture, chemicals, salt spray, and temperature fluctuations are driving t...

Food contaminants pose a major challenge to the entire F&B industry value chain, impacting food producers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, food safety has become a priority, with constantly evolving requirements for traceability, rapid detection, and source identification. Current tracking methods do not ...

Photonic materials are key for effective functioning of lasers, optical fibers, sensors, and imaging systems, which are key to applications such as electronics and telecommunication, displays, sensing and measurements in manufacturing industries, and in health care, security, space exploration, oil and gas, and automobile industries. They are used ...

The growing interest in the field of photonic materials is mainly due to its two fold application potential. The first fold is the development of components (like laser and sensors), which facilitates end user products while the other is development of innovative photonic materials which can be used along with other conventional materials, more lik...

There have been rapid developments in three-dimensional (3D) imaging technologies. The hardware configurations have improved and have become cheaper which makes the real time, interactive 3D imaging applications available to everyone. With the 3D imaging technologies making a mark in this world, investors are flocking to the entrepreneurs and the s...

Product customization and frugal solutions are driving the 3D printing technology. Experimentation with unorthodox materials can revolutionize the adoption of 3D printing, even in healthcare or automotive sectors. It is also seen that individual creativity is upsurging in consumer industry like food, jewelry, apparels and toys due to 3D printing. T...