Consumer Products Market

The rapid economic growth in China has fostered a growing middle class that is becoming the largest buyer of consumer products. Because the 

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To make a breakthrough in household appliances and other consumer product markets UV sensors have to become significantly cheaper while spectral selectivity as a major key feature must be guaranteed. Most of today s UV photodiodes are made from crystalline semiconductor materials. The cheaper materials (Si) lack spectral selectivity, and the wide band gap materials are very expensive. What they all have in common their top performance regarding sensitivity and speed. Crystalline photodiodes have risetimes of often below 1 s. However, the described processes to be sensed here are not faster than some milliseconds or even much slower. In order to obtain a reasonably-priced SiC or GaN photodiode, the photoactive area is often reduced to below 1 mm2 and barely fills the sensor housing. So far, the top sensitivity offered by the semiconductor has been sacrificed for a competitive... 

DIDP is a general purpose plasticizer with a broad range of applications used in flexible PVC. It is widely used in the toy, construction, automotive, and general consumer product markets. It has limited use in food packaging and is not used in medical applications. 

Whereas thousands of tons of pyridine and picolines are required for agrochemical, vitamin B3, and consumer product markets, lutidine and collidine derivatives are made on the 10-100 ton scale only, primarily for use as solvents and intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry. Acetone, CH2O, and ammonia are used commercially to produce 2,6-lutidine (21) over metal-promoted catalysts. Zeolites MFI [45] and BEA [26] have featured in the most recent literature. 

As discussed previously, the consumer products market that uses insulation is of considerable size. Aerogel producers and product makers must focus on products and markets that can most readily benefit from the high performance of an aerogel. These markets most likely include products, which can best benefit from maximum thermal performance within a minimal amount of space. 

Consumer Product Markets for Engineering and High Performance Plastics... 

Table 8.2 shows polyamide consumption in the consumer products market by world region for the period 1999-2002. 

In 2002, total polyamide consumption in consumer product markets amounted to 215,000 tonnes against 201,000 tonnes in 1999. World consumption increased by around 8% in 2000, but then declined in 2001 due to the downturn in world economic activity. In 2002, there was a strong recovery in demand across all major world regions, except Japan. 

In the consumer products market, ABS is used mainly for production of housing and panels for a wide range of domestic appliances and power tools. It can either be used alone or as a blend with PC. ABS is most valued for its toughness and good surface finish. 

Table 8.8 Polycarbonate consumption in i 1999-20C he consumer products market by world region, 12 (000 tonnes) ...

In 2002, total PPS consumption in consumer product markets amounted to 2,700 tonnes compared with 2,600 tonnes in 1999. World consumption of PPS in consumer products increased by 7.5% in 2000, but slipped back in the following year due to lower growth in the world economy. There was only a marginal recovery in PPS demand for consumer products in 2002, the best growth being achieved in Asia Pacific. 

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