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Industry news Battery Materials Market Worth $11.3 Billion By 2018 New Report by MarketsandMarkets presents a competitive landscape covering different strategies and developments undertaken by the battery materials companies in the past few years. The "Battery Materials Market by Types, Applications & Geography - Trends and Forecasts to 2018," analyzes battery materials market with respect to drivers, opportunities, and trends in various regions. The report entirely focuses on lithium battery materials market. Battery materials offer different characteristics as per its manufacturing and applications requirement in the end products. The materials have high demand at a global level and its manufacturing is mainly dominated by Asian countries such as Japan, China and South Korea. Current demand is for low cost battery in this industry, manufacturers prefer blend of high performance and cost effective materials. The major industries for battery materials are consumer electronics, automotive, power tools, marine & medical equipment, and defense & military industries. The manufacturing companies, research institutions, and battery makers are infusing high investment for the future advancements and technology. These investments are to create batteries with high power density, long life cycle, low cost, high performance and environmental friendly, which benefits to battery and end-user industry. The Asia-Pacific is the largest region followed by North America and Europe. These different regions with countries such as US, Germany, Japan, South Korea, China, India and others are growing markets for battery materials. Major players in Asia-Pacific, European and North American regions include Umicore (Belgium), Toda Kogyo (Japan), Celgard (US) and Hitachi Chemical (Japan). Japan is the global hub for battery raw material manufacturers in Asia-Pacific and major market players are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. In North America, major market players are headquartered in US Within Europe, most of the major market players are situated in countries such as Germany, Belgium and U.K. Battery materials demand market is analyzed by considering every possible factor which affects this market. The materials demand is in terms of value and volume market depicts current and future projections of lithium batteries according to parallel economic and industrial outlook. This analysis covers major developments, expansions, agreements and mergers and acquisitions of leading global companies. The global battery materials market was $5.1 billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach $11.3 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 13.0 percent from 2013 to 2018. The high demand across the industries such as automotive and consumer electronics will increase overall materials consumption. The electric vehicles are expected to be the key revenue generators for global battery materials market. 26 Battery Power * Winter 2014 Research and Development Trend of China's Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) Material and Battery Market, 2013 to 2017 "Research and Development Trend of China's Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) Material and Battery Market, 2013-2017", from Reportbuyer.com, mainly analyzes the status quo of lithium iron phosphate industry at home and aboard, as well as price, competitive status, import, export and business performance of main enterprises; at the same time, it makes an analysis and forecast for lithium iron phosphate industry; all of these provide enterprises and investors with decision-making reference. At present, global manufacturers of lithium iron phosphate material are Phostech in Canada, Valence, American A123, Forsmose Lithium Iron Oxide Corp. and Aleees, etc. Of which, the former three had relatively mature mass production technology. The total production capacity of Valence and A123 is about 1,000 tons, although their bases are in China, they do not provide battery materials for domestic customers. China's lithium iron phosphate anode material industry has already been through outstanding changes with two years development in 2011 and 2012. Compared with about 100 producers in 2010, there are about 20 to 30 producers in operation now, of which, about 10 producers can provide mass supply. According to statistics, the annual production capacity of lithium iron phosphate estimates more than 10,000 tons, but the actual output is much lower than one-tenth of the production capacity. In 2012, annual quantity demand reached 18,900 tons, it had a huge gap of supply and demand. On the whole, the industrialization and development of China's lithium iron phosphate is in accordance with international basically. As for costs of parts of products in homeland are much lower than the counterparts at overseas, and gaps in property and capacity are not out of reach, while in homeland the leading enterprises are still not yet coming into being because this industry lacks original innovation technology as well as following the trend. Overall, lithium iron phosphate material industry has not realized industrialization. Telecom Power System Market in North America 2012 to 2016 Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Telecom Power System Market in North America 2012-2016" report to their offering. The analysts forecast the Telecom Power System market in North America to grow at a CAGR of 3.23 percent during 2012 to 2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the growing telecom network infrastructure. The Telecom Power System market in North America has also been witnessing the increasing outsourcing of manufacturing activities. However, the declining profit margins of manufacturers could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. Commenting on the report, an analyst from the team said since the global economic downturn, there has been a steady increase in the emergence of cost-driven manufacturing companies across Asian countries. Several organizations in North America are increasingly outsourcing their manufacturing www.BatteryPowerOnline.com http://www.Reportbuyer.com http://www.BatteryPowerOnline.com

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