The Global Market for Carbon Nanotubes to 2015 - 2nd Edition

Report Summary

Carbon nanotubes enable radical design changes for a wide variety of markets by permitting combinations of properties not previously possible in materials design and affording multi-functionality for increased efficiency. The challenge is translating the excellent combination of nanotubes properties on the nanoscale to structural properties on the macroscale. Contrary to most hyperbolic estimates, the current global market for carbon nanotubes has been measured by Nanoposts.com at approximately $247 million. At present nanotubes represent a niche materials additives market; but one with limitless revenue potential however current hindrances include: inconsistent quality of carbon nanotubes supply; dispersion; characterization of carbon nanotubes nanocomposites; and scaling down processing equipment to work around the low CNT supply.

New functionalised nanotubes applications will come onto the market in the next few years that will greatly increase global revenues to $2.7 billion plus by 2015; driven mainly by the needs of the electronics and data storage, defence, energy, aerospace and automotive industries. The electronics and data storage market is likely to see the biggest penetration to 2015, with the performance enhancing properties of carbon nanotubes allowing electronics manufacturers to meet demanding market needs across a variety of applications.
Their incorporation into the displays applications will also increase demand, with a conservative revenue forecast of $1.07 billion by 2015.
As commercial-scale production ramps up, the significant decrease in cost for these high performance materials will also drive new applications. Up to now, most carbon nanotubes production has been on a pilot-scale level; however scale-up of production by large multi-nationals such as Arkema, Bayer MaterialsScience and Showa Denko and access to cheaper nanotubes from Russian and China will greatly increase commercialization opportunities.

The 140+ page report “The Global Market for Nanotubes to 2015: A Realistic Assessment – 2nd Edition” provides in-depth coverage of one of the most active and commercially important areas of nanotechnology and includes:

• Global revenue figures and projections 2006-2015 across all markets
• Key drivers across all markets
• Products, applications and market trends
• Profiles of over 80 major and minor companies developing commercial applications of nanotubes including:
• Bayer MaterialScience, BASF, Thomas Swan, Nanocomp, Nanocyl, Arkema, Mitsui, Toray, IBM, Surrey Nanosystems, Nanotero, Natural Nano, Unidym and Eikos.

Sectors covered include:

• Aerospace & Aviation
• Automotive
• Construction
• Defence
• Electronics & Data Storage
• Energy
• Environment
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Personal Care
• Printing & Packaging
• Sporting Goods
• Textiles

Table of Contents

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 8

2 METHODOLOGY  13
2.1 Quantitative Data Collection 14
2.2 Qualitative Data Collection 15
2.3 Market forecasting 16

3 COMMERCIALISING NANOTECHNOLOGY 17
3.1 INDUSTRY STRUCTURE 18
3.2 SUPPLIERS 20
3.2.1 Materials 20
3.2.2 Tools and instrumentation 20
3.2.3 Devices and system integration 22
3.3 BUYERS 22
3.4 NEW ENTRANTS 22
3.5 SUBSTITUTION THREATS 23
3.6 COMPETITION 24
3.7 KEY CHALLENGES 24
3.7.1 TECHNICAL 24
3.7.1.1 Understanding 24
3.7.1.2 Tools 25
3.7.2 MARKET 26
3.7.2.1 Hype 26
3.7.2.2 Cost 26
3.7.2.3 Production 27
3.7.2.4 Public Perception and Ethics 29
3.7.3 REGULATION.29
3.8 Market Trends and Drivers 33
3.8.1 DRIVERS 34
3.8.2 TRENDS 36
3.8.2.1 Collaboration 36
3.8.2.2 First to market 36
3.8.2.3 Nanomaterials advantage 37
3.8.2.4 Improved products 39
3.8.2.5 Decreasing cost of nanomaterials 40
3.8.2.6 Autonomous systems 40

4 THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR CARBON NANOTUBES 41
4.1 CARBON NANOTUBES 41
4.1.1 Single-walled carbon nanotubes 41
4.1.2 Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNT) 43
4.1.2.1 Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes (DWNT) 44
4.2 PRODUCTION METHODS 45
4.2.1 Arc Method 45
4.2.2 Laser Methods 46
4.2.3 Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) 47
4.2.4 Ball Milling 48
4.2.5 Other Methods 49
4.3 THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR CARBON NANOTUBES 51
4.3.1 Applications 52
4.3.2 Global Market Revenues 2006-2015 55
4.4 KEY PLAYERS 57
4.4.1 Brand owners 57
4.4.2 Application developers 59
4.4.3 Carbon Nanotube Suppliers 62

5 COMPANY PROFILES 66
5.1 American Dye Source Inc 66
5.2 Arkema 67
5.3 Arknano Technology Development Co., Ltd 69
5.4 Arry International Group  70
5.5 Bayer MaterialScience 71
5.6 BioNano International Singapore Pte. Ltd 73
5.7 BuckyUSA 74
5.8 C-Polymers GmbH  75
5.9 Carbon NT&F 21  76
5.10 Carbon Solutions Inc 77
5.11 Catalytic Materials LLC 78
5.12 CheapTubes..79
5.13 Chengdu Organic Chemicals Co., Ltd, Chinese Academy of Sciences 80
5.14 Continental Carbon Company 81
5.15 DuPont  82
5.16 Frontier Carbon Corp 82
5.17 Fujitsu Laboratories  83
5.18 FutureCarbon GmbH 84
5.19 Helix Material Solutions Inc 85
5.20 Honjo Chemical Corporation  85
5.21 Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc 86
5.22 IBM 87
5.23 Innovations Unified Technologies  88
5.24 Luna Nanoworks 89
5.25 MER Corporation 90
5.26 Mitsui Chemicals, Inc 90
5.27 Mknano 91
5.28 Molecular Nanosystems Inc 92
5.29 MTR Ltd 93
5.30 Nano-C, Inc 94
5.31 Nanocarblab 96
5.32 Nanocs 96
5.33 Nanocomp Technologies, Inc 97
5.34 Nanocomposites Inc 98
5.35 NanoCompound GmbH 99
5.36 Nanocyl s.a 100
5.37 NanoIntegris 102
5.38 NanoLab, Inc 103
5.39 Nanoledge Inc 104
5.40 NanoMas Technologies 105
5.41 NanoNB Corp 105
5.42 Nanoselect Inc 106
5.43 Nanoshel LLC. 107
5.44 Nanostructured & Amorphous Materials, Inc 108
5.45 NanoTechLabs, Inc. 109
5.46 Nanothink S.A. 110
5.47 Natural Nano, Inc 111
5.48 N-Tec  112
5.49 Raymor Industries, Inc 113
5.50 Rossetter Holdings Ltd  114
5.51 SES Research  115
5.52 Shenzhen Nanotech Port Co., Ltd. (NTP) 115
5.53 SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc 116
5.54 Sun Nanotech Co., Ltd 117
5.55 Surrey NanoSystems  118
5.56 Thomas Swan & Co 119
5.57 Unidym Inc 120
5.58 Xintek, Inc 121
5.59 YTC America, Inc 122
5.60 Zyvex Performance Materials, Inc 123

6 GLOSSARY OF TERMS  124