Report Highlights
The global market for optical coatings is expected to reach $14.2 billion by 2021 from $9.5 billion in 2016, rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.3% from 2016 through 2021.
Report Includes
- An overview of the global market for optical coatings, which may be devices but more typically are a value-added feature of optical elements such as lenses, mirrors or flat-screen displays.
- Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2015, estimates for 2016, and projections of CAGRs through 2021.
- A look at the role optical coatings are playing in the consumer electronics, solar, telecommunications, transportation, defense, and medical industries.
- Reasons why optical technology in many application markets represents the next level of technological advancement.
- Insight into markets with the highest margins and fastest growth for coatings, which include new applications, where coatings offer a new advantage, and areas where the coating designer and processor can provide improved performance.
- Profiles of leading companies in the field.
Report Scope
This BCC Research report covers, with a critical eye, the global optical coatings marketplace. It focuses particularly on the markets and opportunities for optical coatings in the consumer electronics, solar, telecommunications, transportation, defense and medical markets.
This study is presented in easy-to-follow sections that overview this subject; define the technology; segment the market by product type, application and region; profile companies; and identify suppliers. All dollar amounts are expressed in current 2015 U.S. dollars. Thin layers of coating are also applied on optical systems exclusively for protective purposes. However, those protective materials have not been considered in the scope of this research.
Materials are segmented by oxide, fluoride, metal and other. Applications are divided into consumer electronics, architecture, solar, telecommunications, transportation, medical, defense/security and industrial.
Individual applications are then further broken down; for example, consumer electronics is then considered via AR coatings, reflective, conductive, filter and electrochromic.
By region, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World.
This is a complete source for serious players in the optical coatings marketplace.
Analyst Credentials
Sinha G. Gaurav, research analyst, holds an MBA in finance from ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad (India), and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rajasthan University (India). He has worked in almost all domains across the market research industry. He has 11 years of experience in the fields of market research and investment banking. His primary focus is in healthcare, chemicals, electronics, finance and database designing. His publications include subjects such as quantum dots, IT in healthcare, alternative data, ultrafast lasers, inorganic polymers, waste management, factory automation and Voxel, among others.
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Report Highlights
In 2012, the total global value for optical coatings was calculated to be more than $8.3 billion, and $9.1 billion in 2013. The total market is projected to be almost $13.9 billion by 2018, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8% over the five-year period from 2013 to 2018.
Report Includes
- An overview of the global market for optical coatings.
- Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2012, estimates for 2013, and projections of CAGRs through 2018.
- Reasons why optical technology in many application markets represents the next level of technological advancement.
- Insight into which potential new high margins coatings applications will emerge in the next five years.
- Comprehensive profiles of leading companies in the field.
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