Hello Blucken,
Below you will the results of my research regarding the chemical and
biological sensor market.
The U.S. chemical sensor market is expected to reach $4.2 billion per
year by 2008, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.5%.
?The Freedonia Group Inc. (Cleveland, OH) believes that new
applications for existing chemical sensors, falling prices for high
performance and/or new sensor types, and product innovation through
microfabrication are driving the chemical market. Optical sensors
accounted for $112 million in 2003, with revenues estimated at $192
million by 2008, for a CAGR of 11.4%. Medical/diagnostic applications,
driven largely by point-of-care testing and monitoring devices, are
expected to remain the largest application for chemical sensors,
approaching 10% CAGR by 2008.?
OE Magazine
http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/jun04/busspot.html
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US chemical sensor demand totaled $2.77 billion in 2003 and is
projected to rise 8.5% annually to exceed $4.16 billion in 2008,
according to The Freedonia Group's Chemical Sensors: Liquid, Gas &
Biosensors study.
?In 2003, the distribution of overall US chemical sensor demand by
sensor type was: biosensors--$1.755 billion; electrochemical
sensors--$795 million; optical sensors--$112 million; and all other
types of sensors--$108 million. In 2003, liquid and solid analytes
accounted for $1.89 billion of the overall US chemical sensor demand,
and gas analytes accounted for $880 million.?
Sensor Business Digest: July 2004
http://www.sensauto.com/sbdr/sbd_july04.html
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?U.S. demand for biomedical MEMS devices (including pressure sensors,
biochip/lab-on-chip devices for biological testing/analysis, and
implantables/disposables) totaled $215 million in 2001 and is
projected to increase over 20% annually to reach $550 million in
2006.?
Sensor Business Digest: November 2003
http://www.sensauto.com/sbdr/sbd_november03.html
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The US chemical sensor industry is worth $2.8 billion
Growth
?US demand for chemical sensors will grow 8.5 percent per year through
2008. Gains will be driven by new uses for established sensors;
falling prices for high performance and/or novel sensors; and by
microfabricated innovations. Optical sensors and biosensors will grow
the fastest. The large medical/diagnostic market will continue to
offer the best opportunities.?
Freedonia Report: March 2004
http://freedonia.ecnext.com/coms2/summary__0001_001878_000005_000005_0001_1
View Study Brochure here:
http://www.freedoniagroup.com/pdf/1768smwe.pdf
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?US demand for chemical sensors, which include gas sensors and
biosensors, is driven by advances in the large diagnostic test market
and growing use of chemical sensors in larger scale environmental and
industrial applications. New product development and expanding
applications will provide considerable growth opportunities despite
relatively slow gains in mature markets such as industrial safety,
flue gas emissions monitoring and pH testing.?
?Prices will continue to fall in nearly all sectors due to strong
competition, increased economies of scale and improved manufacturing
technology. While this will limit growth in market value, it will
promote strong unit gains as these sensors become more economical in
mass market applications such as motor vehicles and home medical
testing.?
Fastest Growth:
?Optical sensors and biosensors are expected to register the fastest
growth among chemical sensor types. Biosensors dominate sales due to
their use in the large volume glucose monitoring sector. Growth will
be driven by the development of other quick diagnostic tests. Optical
sensors will benefit from falling prices which will allow them to
compete with other sensors in key markets such as gas detection.
Demand for electrochemical sensors will benefit from increasing use in
the motor vehicle market although maturity in established industry
safety markets will pull down overall gains.?
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Glucose monitoring and motor vehicle oxygen sensors are currently the
largest markets.
Other applications:
- instant cholesterol and cardiac risk tests
- faster, more accurate cancer diagnostics
- automobile cabin air quality monitors
- fuel cell vehicle safety monitors
- quick tests for food pathogens such as E. Coli
- CO sensors for home smoke detectors
- auto emissions testing analyzers
- portable water pollution monitors
- chemical and biological warfare agent detectors
- blood alcohol breath analyzers
Freedonia Group
http://www.mindbranch.com/catalog/product.jsp?code=R154-542&rec=true
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Worldwide biosensors market
The market size for worldwide biosensors at yearend 2003 was estimated
at about $7.3 billion.
Growth
?Even with scary geopolitical events unfolding and a stubborn weak
global economy, the market is projected to improve and grow to about
$10.8 billion in 2007 with a growth rate of about 10.4%.?
U.S. & Worldwide Biosensor Market, R&D and Commercial Implication
April 2004
http://www.mindbranch.com/page/catalog/product/2e6a73703f636f64653d5239382d31303526706172746e65723d30.html
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Facts from the report New Survey of the Global Biosensor Market:
?Between 2001 and 2003 worldwide sales roughly doubled to just over $5
billion but will not continue, if manufacturers rely on glucose to do
so.
Mergers, acquisitions and geographic expansion play an increasingly
important role - Abbot, TheraSense, Roche, Disetronic, Igen and
Lifescan are just a few of the movers and shakers influencing this
market.
New innovative products continue to be invested in and developed by
dynamic companies such as Pelikan Technologies and Roche Diagnostics
The incorporation of technologies like microfluidics and the
increasing shift towards telemetrics is having a profound impact on
where the biosensor market is heading
Market sectors such as food and defence have long held potential for
biosensors - and currently changing global conditions are enhancing
this promise ?
ERBI Ltd. http://www.erbi.co.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_114635
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From Sensor Business Digest:
?Global revenues for sensors (e.g., pressure, temperature,
chemical/gas sensors) used in harsh environments, exceeding $1 billion
in 2001 ?
?North American revenues for humidity/moisture
sensors/transmitters/instruments, projected to reach about $87.5
million in 2005.?
http://www.sensauto.com/sbd.html
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Applications for Chemical and Biological sensors include:
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Environmental Monitoring
Medical Diagnostics
Drug Screening
Process Control
Battlefield Assessment
http://www.lunainnovations.com/Products/chemical.htm
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The major trends driving Chemical Sensor growth ?are new applications
for established sensor products, price decreases for high-performance
sensors and novel sensor types, and product innovation brought on by
the use of high-tech manufacturing techniques such as
microfabrication. The study also reveals that the fastest growth will
take place among newer technologies such as optical and bio sensors,
and in the area of medical/diagnostics. While nearly all chemical
sensors will take hold in new markets, opportunities in maturing
markets such as industrial safety, emissions monitoring, and
laboratory research will be more limited.?
Chemical Sensor Market Growth
May 2002
http://www.sensorsmag.com/news/0502.shtml
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Key companies
Abbott Laboratories (MediSense Products)
Adsistor Technology
Alpha MOS
Alphasense Limited
AMETEK Incorporated
Analytical Sensors
ATMI Incorporated (SensoriC)
Bayer AG
Biacore AB
Bosch (Robert)
CardioPulmonary Technologies
Cholestech Corporation
Comag IR
Cyrano Sciences
Delphi Corporation
Delphian Corporation
Draegerwerk AG
e2v technologies
Emerson Electric Company (Rosemont Analytical)
First Technology (City Technology)
FIS Incorporated
Horiba Limited
International Biomedical (Metracor Technologies)
Johnson & Johnson (LifeScan) (Inverness Medical Technology)
Marconi Corporation
MBE AG
Mine Safety Appliances Company
Motorola Incorporated
Nemoto & Company
Nova Biomedical
Novatech Controls
Ocean Optics
Optical Sensors
Osmetech plc
Polymer Technology Systems
Quantum Group
RAE Systems
Roche Holding
Sensorex
Siemens AG
Spectris plc (Servomex)
Teledyne Technologies (Monitor Labs)
Texas Instruments
TheraSense Incorporated
Thermo Electron
Tokuyama Corporation (Figaro Engineering)
Vaisala Oyj
VTI-Valtronics
YSI Incorporated
Zellweger Luwa (Lumidor Safety Products)
http://freedonia.ecnext.com/coms2/summary__0001_001878_000005_000005_0001_1
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Current technologies and future developments
Chemical Sensors
Chemical Sensor Technology Overview
http://www.technet.pnl.gov/sensors/chemical/overview/
Range of Pertinent Capabilities and Experience
http://www.technet.pnl.gov/sensors/chemical/capability.stm
Biological Sensors
Biological Sensor Technology Overview
http://www.technet.pnl.gov/sensors/biological/overview/
Range of Pertinent Capabilities and Experience
http://www.technet.pnl.gov/sensors/biological/capability.stm
What are biosensors and what advantages do they offer ?
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/biotech/sensors/what_are_biosensors.htm
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A biological sensor for bio-defense applications is being developed.
?U.S. Genomics (Woburn, MA) has been awarded a $7.5 million phase I
contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research
Project Agency (HSARPA) to develop a sophisticated biological sensor
for bio-defense applications. Under the 18-month contract, the company
will tailor its DNA mapping technology to detect and identify any
airborne pathogen, including anthrax and smallpox. Using a universal
reagent that the company says can detect and identify any pathogen,
the technology produces a genetic signature unique to each organism.
Additionally, U.S. Genomics' approach has the potential to identify
genetically modified species (such as those that may have been
deliberately engineered to deceive traditional detection techniques)
and the technology does not require amplification or the use of
pathogen-specific reagents.?
Industry News: May 17, 2004
http://www.sensorsmag.com/news/0504.shtml
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Nanotechnology is radically changing the sensors industry.
?From homeland defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and health and
medicine to IT and electronics, chemicals, manufacturing and
materials, transportation and business processes, small tech sensors
are already a multi-billion dollar business.?
http://www.sensorsmag.com/resources/research/sensors_mems.shtml
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Impact of nanotechnology on sensors
?The potential impact of nanotechnology on sensors, many of which
depend on interactions occurring at the molecular and atomic level, is
potentially huge. Sensor devices respond to a physical stimulus, the
presence of a particular chemical or biological entity by producing a
signal.?
?Nanosensors often afford significant advantages vis-à-vis
conventional sensors in specific applications, such as greater
sensitivity, lower cost, less weight, and reduced power consumption.?
(. . .)
?In 2003, the nanosensors market consisted mainly of nano-chemical
sensors (chiefly ultra-sensitive gas sensors), nano-biosensors (nanoLC
systems) and nano-force sensors (scanning probe microscopes).
Nanochemical and nanobiosensors will grow significantly through 2009,
at AAGRs of 53.1% and 32.9%, respectively.?
?By 2009, nanoforce sensors' share of the market will decrease
sharply, while nanochemical and non-biosensors will have grown
significantly in importance due to the commercialisation of new
technologies.?
U.S. Nanosensor Market by Application, through 2009
($ Millions)
Sensor Type 2003 2004 2009
Nano-chemical 10.0 11.2 94.2
Nano-bio 20.9 23.8 98.6
Source: BCC, Inc
http://www.three-fives.com/market_business_news/october04_mkt_bus_news/211004Nanosensors_market.htm
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?Sensors made of carbon nanotube nanotechnology materials have keen
potential in chemical and gas sensing, as well as in biosensing (e.g.,
sensing biological agents). Carbon nanotube technology could enable
sensors of gases or liquids to have very low power, extremely small
size, greater versatility, while also reducing per-measurement cost.
Low-power carbon nanotube sensing technology could lend itself to
distributed, or wireless gas or liquid sensor networks that provided
greater efficiency, convenience, and flexibility for taking
multiple-point measurements. Such technology is also suitable for
creating a sensor array to more cost-effectively monitor multiple
analytes of interest.?
?Carbon nanotube gas sensors have legitimate potential in varied
application areas, such as, for example, chemical leak
detection/industrial chemical process monitoring (e.g.,
petrochemicals, hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia,
methane/natural gas, benzene, toluene, carbon dioxide, hydrogen
sulfide), environmental pollution /indoor air quality monitoring, gas
utilities/gas pipelines, homeland security or biowarfare (e.g.,
monitoring explosives or nerve agents), and medical (e.g., monitoring
anesthesia gases, breath gases, or blood gases).
Sensor Business Digest: July 2004:
http://www.sensauto.com/sbdr/sbd_july04.html
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Nanomix, has developed an innovative chemical sensing technology that
integrates carbon nanotube sensing elements with a CMOS process on a
silicon chip.
?Such sensor chips will be designed to offer ultra-high sensitivity in
a minute package and provide key cost and performance benefits over
conventional chemical sensor technologies. The sensing technique is
simple and direct, and purportedly will offer a higher signal-to-noise
ratio than competing technologies?.
http://www.sensorsmag.com/resources/businessdigest/sbd0703.shtml
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?Nanosensors and nano-enabled sensors have applications in many
industries, among them transportation, communications, building and
facilities, medicine, safety, and national security, including both
homeland defense and military operations. Consider nanowire sensors
that detect chemicals and biologics, nanosensors placed in blood cells
to detect early radiation damage in astronauts, and nanoshells that
detect and destroy tumors.
Sensors Online
http://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/1103/22/main.shtml
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