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Worldwide Carbon Fiber Competitive Analysis and Leadership Study 2011
Lucintel, Sep 2011, Pages: 221
Carbon fiber, once considered to be too costly for successful mass production, is rapidly becoming the material of choice for a variety of commercial applications, from aerospace to renewable energy. In fact, the market for carbon fiber has experienced good growth from 2005- 2010, with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 5.6%. As a result of wider acceptance and emerging demand, the carbon fiber industry as a whole is now considered to be highly attractive with above average revenue growth and profit margin potential for those competing in the market.
Not surprisingly, this current environment has attracted considerable attention from the investment community as well as potential customers interested in alternative materials. The world's seven leading carbon fiber producers are also closely monitoring competitive activities in an attempt to navigate the landscape more adeptly and to capture as much share as possible. In virtually every respect, these producers are seeking to establish a tangible competitive advantage in the marketplace through the implementation of innovative strategies and creative product development capabilities.
Lucintel's Leadership Quadrant considers a variety of critical factors – from management effectiveness to product range to market strength to financial strength and then ranks each firm accordingly on the grid for quick comparison. This report answers following key questions:
- What are the market shares of carbon fiber suppliers in aerospace, industrial and sporting goods market?
- Who are the market leaders in various regions and what are their market shares?
- Which companies are more aligned with market opportunities and which companies have more ability to gain market share?
- What are the key differentiators for seven major carbon fiber suppliers?
- Which company has the widest product range and how the product mapping looks among various players?
- Which companies will gain market share and who will lose market shares.
Features of this Report:
The dynamics of the carbon fiber industry extends beyond routine macro-economic elements of supply and demand. It is the relationship between buyer's needs and seller's capabilities as well as the macroeconomic forces at work that affect the market. It is how well and how efficiently the
sellers meet the needs of the buyers that determine long-term success.
“Worldwide Carbon Fiber Competitive Analysis and Leadership Study 2011” thoroughly profiles the seven companies with detailed competitive assessments.
The detailed analysis of each company offers a critical view into key strategic areas, including:
- Carbon fiber producer target markets
- Key differentiators, strengths, competitors
- Product line overview, positioning
- Market position in global carbon fiber business
- Revenue breakdown by market segments
- Global manufacturing operations
- urrent and forecasted production
- Innovation and market leadership
- Marketing, sales, and organizational capabilities
- Management commitment and track record
- Financial strength
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Who Can Benefit From This Report:
This study is intended for material suppliers, parts fabricators, OEMs, investors, executives and consultants. This multi-client market study from Lucintel is used by small to multi-national Fortune 500 companies and utilized for a variety of reasons as follows.
- Business development
- Strategic planning
- Business presentation
- Determination of market size and trend
- Competitive analysis
- Personnel training
- Budgeting
- Investment Decision
Methodology
Lucintel has closely tracked and conducted research on composites and other markets since 1998. This research project was designed for the purposes of determining which of the world's leading carbon fiber leader's are better positioned to capture additional market share in the near term and which may not have the strategic agility to remain fully competitive in the marketplace.
In order to ensure fairness with our analysis, we compared several factors in order to align the current performance and, more importantly, the future prospects for each vendor.
This study is a culmination of 7 months of full-time effort performed by Lucintel's analyst team.
Our analysts used the following sources for the creation and completion of this valuable report:
- In-depth interviews of seven of the world's leading carbon fiber suppliers
- In-depth secondary research from financial statements and annual reports of the competitors
- Extensive search of current published literature, market and database information including industry news, company press releases, and customer intentions.
- A compilation of the experiences, judgments, and insights of Lucintel's professional network, who have analyzed and tracked the composites marketplace for a decade. Lucintel collects a significant amount of uninterpreted data from a variety of sources and converts this into intelligent data as follows. The intelligent data is used by our clients for making confident business decisions. The figure below is a graphical representation of the end-to-end Lucintel research process
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