NanoMarkets
today announced the release of its report titled "Markets for
Inorganic and Organic Thin-Film PV Encapsulation."
Glen
Allen, Virginia - October 4, 2012 -- Industry analyst firm
NanoMarkets
today announced the release of its report titled "Markets for
Inorganic and Organic Thin-Film PV Encapsulation." In this new
report NanoMarkets estimates that encapsulation materials and
technologies used in organic and inorganic thin-film PV (TFPV)
markets will surpass $1 billion (USD) revenues by the year 2018.
Additional details about the report are available at:
http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/PV_Encapsulation_2012.
Within
the report NanoMarkets also examines the product development and
marketing strategies of the major players in the encapsulation
materials sector from large companies such as 3M, Asahi Glass Company
(AGC), Corning, DuPont, Nippon Electric Glass (NEG), PPG, Schott and
Solutia, to specialty firms such Beneq, Tera-Barrier Films and UDC
and we attempt to indicate which firms are the "companies to
watch" and which will be the likely winners and losers in the
encapsulation materials space.
The
report also contains detailed, eight-year forecasts for the materials
used for PV encapsulation, in both value ($ millions) and volume
(area of material) terms, broken out by product type and application.
Encapsulation
product types covered include:
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Rigid glass
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Flexible glass
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Multilayer thin films and laminates
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Conformal coatings
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Metal foils
Application
sectors covered are:
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Thin-film silicon (TF-Si) PV
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Cadmium-telluride (CdTe) PV
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Copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) PV
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Dye-sensitized (solar) cell (DSC) PV, and
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Organic PV (OPV)
From
the Report:
TFPV
is diversifying away from thin-film silicon and cadmium-telluride PV,
both of which dominate the market today, and toward increasing
proportions of CIGS, dye-sensitized cell, and OPV, all of which place
higher requirements on barrier performance than either TF-Si or CdTe
PV.
Furthermore,
new TFPV formats are on the rise, including both flexible versions of
CIGS, OPV and/or DSC PV for both on- and off-grid applications and
building-integrated PV (BIPV) formats based on various TFPV types, at
least some of which are expected to be flexible. Roll-to-roll (R2R)
fabrication methods are also important to the value propositions of
these emerging segments of the TFPV industry.
As
a result of these trends, the TFPV industry is beginning to recognize
that high quality encapsulation is an area of strategic importance.
NanoMarkets therefore believes that there exist now some real
opportunities for the firms that have been working on the
encapsulation issue, many of whom have poured resources into this
area for several years.
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NanoMarkets forecasts that the market value of organic and inorganic
thin-film PV (TFPV) encapsulation will grow from its current value of
approximately $370 million in 2012 to nearly $1.2 billion in 2019.
This growth corresponds to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
about 18 percent.
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The market value of flexible glass encapsulation in TFPV is expected
to grow from nearly zero today to a value of over $60 million by 2015
and over $225 million by the end of the forecast period in 2019.
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Multilayer barrier films in TVPF encapsulation can grow from just
over $30 million today to just over $275 million in 2019.
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The market value of conformally-coated barriers based on ALD can grow
to just over $60 million by the middle of the forecast period in 2016
and to over $135 million by 2019.
About
NanoMarkets:
NanoMarkets
tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in solid-state
lighting, energy, electronics and other markets created by
developments in advanced materials. The firm is a recognized leader
in industry analysis and forecasts of this kind and has been covering
the thin-film PV space since 2005.
Visit
http://www.nanomarkets.net
for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.
Media
Contact:
Robert
Nolan
NanoMarkets,
LC
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BOX 3840
Glen
Allen, VA 23058
(804)
938-0030
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