Food Processors Will Raise Purchases of Centrifuges, Clarifiers and Related Equipment

Municipalities, chemical producers, and food processors will raise purchases of centrifuges, clarifiers and related equipment next year by 5.6%, increasing revenues to $7.3 billion. This is the conclusion reached in the McIlvaine Company continually updated report, Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets. The McIlvaine forecast is in percentages, so actual sedimentation revenues will rise by about 6%. This is a higher estimate than predicted for some of the major participants in this market. The figures include: Clarifiers – 5.7%; Decanters – 4.2%; Disk – 7.1%; Dissolved air flotation – 5.8%; Hydrocyclones – 5.1%; And other centrifuges – 4%. Alfa Laval is one of the largest suppliers of this equipment and is a major supplier of disk and decanter centrifuges. Analysts following this company are projecting revenue increases of 4.75% in 2013. Two other major players are GE and Siemens. However, the sales of sedimentation and centrifugation equipment are a small portion of their total sales. In general, both suppliers are more optimistic about the water segments than they are about the businesses as a whole. The clarifier market is the largest single segment. The challenges with hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas shale are boosting this segment at greater than 5% annually. East Asia is the largest purchasing region. Higher than average revenues in this region will offset lower than average revenues in other regions. Source: filtsep