World cleanroom hardware market to top $11bn in 2009

Published: 17-Mar-2006


The market for cleanroom hardware will grow from $3bn in 2005 to $4.3bn in 2009 while the market for consumables will increase from $5.7bn to $7.3bn in the same period – making the combined market worth around $11bn by 2009 – according to the latest forecasts by McIlvaine Company.

The largest purchaser of cleanroom hardware and consumables is the semiconductor industry, which spent more than $2bn this year. The fastest growing sector is flat panel displays: Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) account for about 80% of the flat-panel market, with thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) covering a large percentage of that.

Other cleanroom-based technologies include Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), Plasma Display Panels (PDPs), Field Emission Displays (FEDs) and flexible Flat Panel Displays (FPDs). The OLED industry has experienced high annual growth rates due to the increased demand for small displays for cell phones, MP3 players and car stereos.

Most of the FPDs are manufactured in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China. Purchases of cleanroom consumables by this segment are expected to rise from $300m this year to more than $500m in 2009. The focus on safer products has created greater investment in microbial protection in the filling of parenteral drugs, sensitive operations in hospitals, isolation of disease carriers and other applications where there is a danger either to the product manufacturer or purchaser.

Concerns about avian flu and the strategy to isolate those who are sick could substantially increase the sale of cleanroom hardware and consumables, the company suggests.

At least 1.3m people are working in cleanrooms around the world, and this figure will rise as the need for ultrapure air increases along with the trends toward miniaturisation, increased reliability and safer products.

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