Global Market Study on Automotive Composites: Polymer Matrix Composites to be the Largest Segment by 2022 - Reportlinker Review

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Nov 04, 2015, 02:30 ET

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasing pollution due to rising number of vehicles over the last few decades is influencing governments worldwide to revamp their environmental regulations, wherein, the emphasis is on the reduction of carbon emission from vehicles. Automakers are focused towards using lightweight materials to build the external and internal parts of vehicles in order to reduce the weight of the vehicle, and, in turn, improve fuel efficiency. This is a major factor driving the growth of the automotive composites market. Consumers are more inclined towards purchasing lightweight and fuel-efficient vehicles due to increasing fuel prices over the last decade. This is influencing automakers towards investing in the R&D of lightweight materials to manufacture the exterior as well as interior parts of the vehicle. This reduces the overall weight of the vehicle, in turn, improving its fuel efficiency. Composites with properties such as high tensile strength, lightweight, good corrosion resistance and surface tension, and are easy to process are ideal materials to manufacture lightweight vehicles with good fuel efficiency. Moreover, increasing owing to increasing, per capita vehicle ownership has increased, especially in developing Asia-Pacific countries such as India and China. This is further driving the use of carbon composite in the automotive industry for the manufacture of lightweight and fuel-efficient vehicles, in turn, driving the automotive composite market to some extent. In 2013, there were 800 vehicles per 1,000 people in the U.S. compared to 600 vehicles per 1,000 people in Japan, 80 cars per 1,000 people in China, and 25 vehicles per 1,000 people in India.

Asia-Pacific is the largest market for automotive composites. Increasing domestic production of vehicle paired with increasing disposable income is driving the automotive composites market in the Asia Pacific region. One of the major factors contributing to the growth of the automotive composites market in North America and Europe are stringent CO2 emission rules in these regions.

The automotive composites market is segmented on the basis of composite material (polymer matrix composites, metal composites and ceramic matrix composites), manufacturing process (manual, compression, injection and continuous, and other), composite component (interior components, exterior components, engine and drivetrain components, and others) by value (US$ Mn) and region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World) for the period 2012–2022. In addition, current automotive composites market dynamics, including market drivers, restraints, opportunities, and recent developments have been covered in the report. The Competitive Landscape section of the automotive composites market report includes global automotive composites market share, by the company, 2014.

The report also contains competitive positioning of global automotive composite companies, depending on number of countries of operation and annual revenue, 2014. Some of the major players operating in the global automotive composites market are Toray Industries, Cytec Industries Inc., SAERTEX GmbH & Co. KG, Koninklijke Ten Cate N.V., Johns Manville, Johnson Controls, Inc., Scott Bader Company Ltd., Teijin Limited, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and UFP Technologies, Inc.

Key segments covered in this report are:

Automotive composites material segmentation
Polymer Matrix Composites
Metal Composites
Ceramic Matrix Composites
Automotive composites manufacturing process segmentation
Manual
Compression
Injection and Continuous
Other
Automotive composites components segmentation
Interior Components
Exterior Components
Engine and Drivetrain Components
Others
Key geographies evaluated in this report are:
North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Rest of the World
Top companies profiled in this report are:
Cytec Industries Inc.
Toray Industries, Inc.
SAERTEX GmbH & Co. KG
Koninklijke Ten Cate N.V.
Johns Manville
Johnson Controls Inc.
Scott Bader Company Ltd
Teijin Limited
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
UFP Technologies, Inc.

Key features of this report
Drivers, restraints, and challenges in the automotive composites market
Latest innovations and key events in the market
Analysis of business strategies of the top players
Automotive composites market estimates and forecasts
The report also provides Porter's five forces analysis of the market
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