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North American Welding Filler Metals Market
Frost & Sullivan, July 2010, Pages: 80
This research service identifies the key trends, industry challenges, market drivers and restraints and competitive structure of the North American welding filler metals market. This research service provides forecasts for the total North American welding filler metals market comprising the following filler metal types: solid wires, tubular wires, covered electrodes, and submerged arc welding consumables. It also provides analysis of key end-user industries that use filler metals, including: automotive and transportation, construction, fabrication, energy and process industries, power utilities, pipelines and pipe mills, and shipbuilding.
Market Performance: 2007-2009:
- The North American market for filler metals has enjoyed tremendous growth over the last few years, driven in large part by sharp increases in the price of base metals. These price trends reversed from 2008-2009, and demand for filler metals fell substantially along with the health of key end-user verticals like automotive and transportation and construction.
- The market for filler metals grew by x.x% in 2007, and by x.x% in 2008. Although the market experienced significant declines in sales volumes in the last quarter of 2008, base metal prices and steady demand powered growth in 2008.
- The North American filler metals market experienced a significant decline in 2009, with revenues falling by xx.x%. The market is expected to stage a significant recovery in 2010 and 2011, and then return to a stable, long-term growth rate beginning in 2012.
Competitive Factors:
- Joint geometry, material thickness, speed, cost, quality, and compatibility with on-hand equipment are the main factors when choosing a particular type of filler metal.
- Among the four main product segments, tubular wires and submerged arc consumables are expected to enjoy the highest long-term growth rate because of their faster deposition rates and improving technologies. Covered electrodes are expected be displaced gradually by competing product types.
- The solid wires market is expected to see significant growth over the near term as its main end-user verticals try to satisfy pent-up demand from their customers and as base metal prices rise.
- The size of the market is a function of the price of filler metals. This, in turn, has been strongly affected by the prices of base metals like steel and aluminum.
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