Report Highlights
- Overall sales in the U.S. market for sterilization equipment by type were nearly $1 billion in 2009 which is predicted to remain same in 2010. But by 2014, it is projected to increase to $1.2 billion, at 5 year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2%.
- The largest segment filter sterilization market was nearly $572.3 million in 2009; which will remain same in 2010. This is projected to reach $652.6 million in 2014, for a 5-year CAGR of 3.3%.
- Sales in the heat sterilization market amounted to $499 million in 2009 and will remain same in 2010. This is projected to increase to $564 million in 2014, for a 5-year CAGR of 3.1%.
INTRODUCTION
REASONS FOR DOING THE STUDY
Sterilization is an often unrecognized element in a vast number of industries and manufacturing processes. Because various market forces shape demand for sterilization, the delivery of sterile products has created the need for effective, rapid, and economical technologies that ensure safety throughout the production process. This updated BCC report explores the changes and directions in the field that are projected between 2009 and 2014.
- To describe the trends and developments for each type of sterilization technology and how each is meant to satisfy the needs of manufacturers ·
- To analyze market and driving forces with particular attention to regulatory impacts that create certain programs for specific industries, such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), in order to suggest the market size for the technologies and pinpoint target applications ·
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Report Highlights
- U.S. sales of capital equipment to the sterilization industry should reach $905.2 million in 2005 and $1.1 billion in 2010, rising at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 4.2%.
- The trends of value-added manufacturing and shorter hospital stays combined are holding capital equipment costs down and are leading to the use of more disposable than reusable items.
- This trend toward disposables spells success for filtration sterilization, where sales of sterilizing filters for liquids and gases will rise at an AAGR of 5.9% to $603.5 million in 2010.
- Heat sterilization technologies are the tried-and-true methods and purchases will rise to $505.3 million in 2010.
Report Highlights
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Sterilization is an unrecognized element in a vast number of industries and manufacturing processes and there is an ongoing need for effective, safe, rapid and economic methods. Many products are regulated and monitored by the government for microbe control procedures and contamination levels and they cannot be sold unless they are sterilized. Other products benefit from sterilization, even if not mandated by law.
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Sterilization methods are more than a century old. Processes for performing sterilization basically have remained unchanged, but the efficiency and performance of devices is changing and evolving, as are the materials that are being sterilized. Therefore, it is important to understand the various sterilization methods and their uses and to know the changes and directions sterilization technology is taking.
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