Abstract
This chapter describes the factors influencing the growth of the international membrane industry that are derived from the needs of the industrial, commercial, and domestic sectors that it serves. The strength or weakness of these sectors dictates in large measure how well the industry does financially, so this chapter examines the major end-user sectors for membrane modules, in terms relevant to their membrane needs. However, based on this classification, this chapter focuses especially on those large end-user sectors where membrane separation equipment is an important feature of the sector. These sectors, of course, become a significant part of the membrane module market. The largest end-use sector is that for the whole chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology industry, which accounts for 30% of the market. The fresh water and wastewater processing sector is next, taking nearly one-quarter, and then comes medical and health uses, which represents 15% of the total market. Membrane market size estimates have now been given for geographic and membrane process segmentation of the total market. A major feature of the key end-use sectors is that they are increasingly worldwide industries, with global problems and opportunities.
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