Air Filtration Market Will Exceed $7 Billion This Year
The market for filters for indoor air and gas turbine air inlets will exceed $7 billion in 2015. The biggest driver in Asia is the increased use in residences and commercial buildings to prevent pollutants in the ambient outdoor air from entering the internal environment. This is one of the conclusions reached in the latest McIlvaine forecasts in N022 Air Filtration and Purification World Market. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Air Filter Revenues ($ Millions)
World Region 2015
Total 7,158
Africa 183
CIS 278
East Asia 2,115
Eastern Europe 130
Middle East 264
NAFTA 2,283
South & Central America 277
West Asia 279
Western Europe 1,349
The big driver in the U.S. is the expansion of the gas turbine market. Most of the additional U.S. power generation capacity will come from gas turbine plants as identified in: 59EI Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Supplier Program.
The market is expanding substantially due to product upgrades and price per unit increases. It has been learned that gas turbine maintenance and downtime can be reduced with the use of high efficiency (HEPA) filters as opposed to medium efficiency filters. These filters cost several times more, but are justified on a life cycle basis.
A unique new guide to these selections has been created in Gas Turbine Air Treatment Global Decisions Positioning System™ (GdPS).
An American Filtration Society conference on April 28th will include a session conducted by McIlvaine on the filter options http://spring.afssociety.org/
For more information on these services contact: editor@mcilvainecompany.com.
GDP UPDATE HEADLINES
March 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS
AMERICAS
• United States
• Brazil
• Mexico
ASIA
• China
• India
• Japan
• Thailand
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
• Germany
• Italy
• Nigeria
• Russia
• South Africa
• Ukraine
AMERICAS
Brazil
Market forecasts for Brazil's economic growth and inflation worsened for an eighth straight week, according to a central bank survey.
The median forecast of about 100 economists in the weekly central bank survey projected Brazil's economy to shrink 0.5% this year, down from a contraction of 0.42% in the prior week's poll. Annual inflation is set to end 2015 at 7.33%, up from 7.27% in the prior survey. (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
ASIA
Japan
Japan’s economy pulled out of recession more slowly than expected last quarter, with soft spending by businesses and consumers underscoring the challenges facing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he tries to steer the nation to a robust recovery.

The worst is likely over for Japan in the near term, economists said recently, but Mr. Abe still faces a difficult balancing act as he tries to get prices and wages to rise at the same time. Growth last quarter was driven by exports, while sustainable expansion depends on instilling confidence in consumers who account for around 60% of the economy, and whose wages have been rising more slowly than prices for more than a year.
“I was surprised by how weak household spending was,” said Shotaro Kuga, an economist at Daiwa Institute of Research, said of the fourth quarter results. “The economy is recovering—it’s just the pace of the recovery is less than forecast.” (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
EUROPE / AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST
Russia
Russia’s economy minister said that the country’s gross domestic product is expected to shrink by 3% in 2015 with oil prices at $50 a barrel and an estimated capital outflow at $115 billion, Russian news agencies reported.
The government previously predicted the decrease in GDP at 0.8%. Inflation in 2015 is now forecast to stand at 12%, up from the previous estimate of 7.5%, Alexei Ulyukayev said, Russian news agencies reported.
The announcement comes a day after the Russian central bank unexpectedly lowered its key interest rate by two percentage points, sending the ruble lower. Russia was also recently downgraded to “junk” level, below investment-grade, by the credit rating company Standard & Poor’s amid the mounting violence in eastern Ukraine. .” (The remaining text is not included in this sample.)
For more information on: Air Filtration and Purification World Markets, click http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/108-n022
WORLD POWER GENERATION PROJECTS HEADLINES
This includes only projects where there was an update during the month. There are thousands of projects in the database.
New power generation projects are tracked in two publications. Fossil and Nuclear Power Generation includes both market forecasts and project data. World Power Generation Projects has just the project data.
2/1/15 – 3/1/15

Lena (Ust Kut) power plant - EuroSibEnergo 10/1/2011 Russia 2018
Anwara, Chittagong power plant-Bangladesh Power Dev. Board/NTPC 8/1/2010 Bangladesh 2018
Margam biomass power plant 2/1/2015 UK 2017
Kothagudem power plant 10/1/2014 India 2018
Hub Power Co.power project 10/1/2014 Pakistan 2018
Tuticorin expansion-Neyveli Lignite 12/1/2013 India Unknown
Rampal (Friendship. Maitree) power plant-Power Development Board/NTPC 9/1/2010 Bangladesh Unknown
Duyen Hai 3 supercritical power plant-EVN 1/1/2009 Vietnam 2018
Dahej power plant-Adani Power 1/1/2008 India Unknown
Metsamor-Armenia replacement nuclear power plant 10/1/2007 Armenia 2027
Tiroda Phase I and II power project-Adani Power 10/1/2007 India 2016
Zuma Energy Nigeria power plant (Itobe 3/1/2015 Nigeria Unknown
Cadiz CFB power plant-North Negros Energy Power 3/1/2015 Philippines 2018
Cox's Bazar (Matarbari) ultra supercritica plant-Bangladesh Power Dev. Board 5/1/2013 Bangladesh 2019
Kudankulam expansion (3 and 4) 9/1/2010 India 2023
Bhadreshwar power plant-OPG Ltd. 9/1/2010 India 2015
Fangjiashan 1,2 7/1/2010 China 2015
Krishnapatnam Phase 1-Thermal Powertech Corp. India 5/1/2010 India 2016

Barakah 1-4 nuclear power plant 6/1/2009 United Arab Emirates 2020
Barapukuria expansion (III)-CMC 3/1/2008 Bangladesh Unknown
Astravyets in Ostrovetsky district--Belarus nuclear power plant 6/1/2007 Belarus 2020
Alvin W. Vogtle 3,4 nuclear power plant-Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power 6/1/2007 GA 2020
Tanda supercritical power plant-NTPC 8/1/2006 India 2019
For more information on World Power Generation Projects, click on: http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/databases/28-energy/486-40ai
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