The market for sedimentation and centrifugation equipment will remain flat this year at $5.6 billion worldwide, according to a report by McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com). The report, titled Sedimentation & Centrifugation World Markets, predicts a rise in Asian markets will offset declines in Europe and North America.
2009 Sales ($ Millions)
| Subject Clarifier Decanter Disk Dissolved Air Flotation Hydrocyclone Other Centrifuges |
2009 2351 671 957 536 365 725 |
Clarifiers are expected to be the leading product followed by disc centrifuges. According to McIlvaine, clarifiers will find extensive use in municipal wastewater treatment and mining, while disc centrifuges will generate uptake in food and pharmaceutical applications. Decanter and other centrifuge types will account for more than $1.3 billion in sales. Decanters are used in wastewater and chemical applications. Meanwhile, basket centrifuges will generate use in coal dewatering, fine chemicals, and lubricating oil purification, with hydrocyclones generating use in mining, metals and nonmetallic minerals and dissolved air flotation in municipal wastewater and food effluent treatment.
Industry Revenue Trends 2009
| Industry Chemical Food Metals Mining Other Industries Pharmaceutical Power Pulp & Paper Wastewater Water |
2009 down up down down down up up down up up |
McIlvaine says economic stimulus packages in the U.S., China and Europe, in particular, are causing a rise in sedimentation/centrifugation sales in municipal water and wastewater.
