45 Percent of the Macro Liquid Filtration Market is in Asia
Sales of liquid macro filtration equipment and media will reach $5.2 billion
next year. Of that total, $2.3 billion or 45 percent of the sales will be in
Asia. This is the latest forecast in the online Liquid Filtration and Media
World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company (www.mcilvainecompany.com).
Asian Macro Filtration Sales 2011
Industry $ Millions
Chemical 212
Food 84
Metals 144
Mining 358
Other Industries 221
Pharmaceutical 91
Power 298
Pulp & Paper 20
Wastewater 508
Water 391
One of the biggest drivers will be the construction of sewage treatment plants
in China. In the just completed eleventh five-year plan (2006-2010), China
doubled its secondary sewage treatment capacity. This pace will continue through
the twelfth five-year plan. Much of the sludge dewatering is being accomplished
by belt filter presses. The Asian market for belt filter presses will be just
under $300 million in 2011.
Granular media filters are the largest equipment segment in liquid macro
filtration. They are used to purify surface water to provide municipal drinking
water. Throughout Asia there is a major effort to provide safe water to all
citizens.
Recessed chamber filter presses are widely used in the chemical and mining
industries. Asia leads the world in the purchases of this type of filter. Bag
filters are used in chemical and metal working industries. They are also used
for the purification of produced water in oil and gas extraction. This is a big
market for filter media. The replacement bag market in Asia will be over $200
million in 2011.
A fast growing segment of liquid macro filtration is the automatic backwashing
filter. This filter uses screens or disks and is replacing bag filters in some
applications. It also competes with liquid cartridges (not considered part of
macro filtration). These backwashing filters are used in irrigation, metal
working and many other applications.
Also included in macro filtration are drum and disk filters used in mining
applications. Leaf filters are used along with diatomaceous earth to filter
beverages. Gravity belt filters are used to filter chemicals and also gypsum
crystals. China is buying more belt filters for power plant scrubber gypsum
dewatering than the rest of the world combined.
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Bob McIlvaine
President
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