BCC Research
Market Research Reports and Technical PublicationsArchive for April, 2008
Lab901 raises 3.5m to develop electrophoresis arm
Lab901 has raised £3.5m in funding, which will go towards expanding its sales efforts and new products for RNA and Protein Electrophoresis – a market that is currently worth $1.3bn worldwide and expected to increase to over $1.6bn.
The money raised from this latest equity funding round is expected to build on the company’s D800 ScreenTape, a system designed for DNA analysis that is the first product from a pipeline of consumables that will be run on the company’s TapeStation instrument.¹
¹Lab Technologist, LabTechnologist.com
“Forensic Technologies: New and Growing Markets”
Technology advancements in forensics have been of considerable import in recent years. Recent examples include improved fingerprint recovery from metals, such as gun cartridges and bomb fragments, use of the chemistry of color to identify chemical and biological weapons, and sensing technologies that are improving the detection of drugs and explosives at security checkpoints.¹
¹Individual.com
A Brief Nanoparticle Growth Forecast
A market research report titled “Nanostructured materials for the biomedical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic markets,” from BCC Research, says that the global market for nanoparticles for these applications was worth $204.6 million last year, with that number expected to reach $684.4 million by 2012.¹
¹Healthcare Packaging, healthcarepackaging.com
A Tale of Two Industries: Plastics and Medical Devices
The convergence of two weighty North American industries—plastics and medical devices—has facilitated numerous healthcare advances. We bring you a sampling of locations that are helping these industries prosper.
A Tale of Two Industries: Plastics and Medical Devices¹
¹Jenny Vickers, Business Facilities
Kids Unwire Salmon Stream
With the technology, students will study different aspects of the creek including temperature, stream flow, pH, turbidity and nitrates. Teams will develop a specific investigation, record data, share what they learned and then develop a real-world research proposal that answers the question: “Can Olson Creek support a salmon habitat?”
*BCC Research receives a mention for our report on Microsensors.
Sensor market to grow 18.5% in 2008, says analyst
The global annual market for microsensors is expected to be worth $3.2 billion in 2008, up 18.5 percent from $2.7 billion in 207, and increase to more than $8.4 billion in 2013, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.3 percent, according to BCC Research (Wellesley, Mass.).¹
¹EE Times, eetimes.com
Lights Shine Promising Path for Growth of LED Auto Lamps
Energy conservation, long life span, zero maintenance, eco-friendliness, and easy operation have made semiconductor, or solid-state, lighting such as LED the darling among lighting technologies emerging to dethrone the incandescent and fluorescent light bulb.¹
¹China Economic News, CENS.com
Analyst: Chip use slowing, but sputtering market still growing through 2012
The global market for sputtered films and sputtering targets should grow from $ 2.82B in 2007 to $ 5.88B in 2012, for a CAGR of 15.8%, according to data from market research firm BCC Research. The company breaks down the data into several categories of total coated area, consumed target material and units, and the value of the consumed material.¹
¹Solid State Technology Magazine, sst.pennnet.com
Value ‘add’itives
Additives are key ingredients of most medicines. This may be the reason why additives have been inseparable from pharma industry despite having a few drawbacks. Sachin Jagdale provides more details.¹
¹ExpressPharmaOnline.com
Global Market for Diabetes Therapeutics and Diagnostics
The global market for diabetes therapeutics and diagnostics is estimated at US$214 billion in 2008. This is expected to increase to more than $242 billion by 2013, a compound average annual growth rate of 2.5%. These are the findings of BCC Research (Wellesley, MA, USA), a publisher of market research reports and technical publications.¹
¹Medinews.com
