Global Wafer Foundry Market & China Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Industry Reviewed With Forecasts in New Research Reports
DALLAS, December 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
RnRMarketResearch.com adds "Research on Global and China Wafer Foundry Industry, 2012"
and "Research on China's Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Industry, 2012-2017" reports to its
store.
Since 2011, the world's major wafer foundries are accelerating the expansion of
advanced process capacity scale. With the flourish of smart phone and tablet PC market,
the demand for advance process which owns low cost and high efficiency increased rapidly,
therefore, the wafer foundries including TSMC, UMC, Global Foundries and Samsung have
expanded production capacity actively.
In 2011, the annual output value of global semiconductor foundries was nearly $ 30
billion, and TSMC occupies more than 40% of the market share. With the flourish of UMC,
Samsung, Intel and GlobalFoundries, in order to maintain the leading position, TSMC
invested $ 5.9 billion to expand 12-inch plant and improve the production capacities of
65/55 nm and 40 nm, and the capital expenditure amounted to $ 7.8 billion in 2011, mainly
invested in Wafer Fifteenth Factory. In 2012, the capital expenditure is expected to reach
$8-8.5 billion.
In 2011, UMC gained 35.7% stock equity of HeJian Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd and
became its largest shareholder. In the future, UMC will continue to negotiate the
acquisition of stock equity with other shareholders so as to accelerate the production
capacity expansion, and also to improve the competitiveness by virtue of capacity
advantage complement between China Mainland and Taiwan; at the same time, UMC began 28 nm
pilot production since the first quarter of 2012, it is estimated that by the end of 2012,
the revenue of 28 nm will occupy 5% of the total revenue, and the capital expenditure plan
is $ 2 billion in 2012.
The global Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) market
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has entered the mature stage and the global TPE demand volume
has reached 4.05 million tons. At present, in the TPE consumption structure, the
proportion of TPS, TPO, TPU and TPEE is 44%, 31%, 9.5% and 6.5% respectively, and other
kinds of TPE accounts for about 9%. Styrene TPE still occupies the top position, but the
product share shows the downward trend. Currently, TPO has entered automobile and medicine
markets, and also began to replace traditional thermoset rubber and PVC materials, so the
market share of TPO will expand continuously and the consumption will increase rapidly.
At present, China's TPE has developed into more than ten varieties, and has replaced a
part of rubber, synthetic rubber and plastic. TPE is widely used in auto parts industry
(tubes, belt, mat and plate, etc.), construction industry, shoemaking, medical products,
sealing products, packaging products, electric wire and cable, daily life products, toys,
sports equipments, hardware, power tools, communications, electronic products, household
appliances, adhesives and the modification of polymer materials. Of which, followed by
construction industry, medical and daily life product field, automobile industry is the
most important TPE application field, which accounting for about one third.
In recent years, people pay more attention to product safety instead of production
safety, namely, people concern more about the environmental protection products. TPE is a
new type of environmental protection material, so people conducted a mass of researches on
TPE and has achieved breakthrough in energy saving and three wastes (waste gas, waste
water and waste residues) reduction aspects. While the research works of TPS synthetic
technology, the polymer characterization work is also deepened. This situation is
specifically manifested in two aspects, namely, the increase of separate analytical
technical content and the combination of different analytical techniques. At present,
people has developed atomic force microscope (AFM) which can further study the TPE. In
short, TPE will develop in the following aspects:
- Adopt new technology produced TPE
- TPE composite technology
- Cross-linking TPE with durability
- Creation of new demand which related with ecology and material recycling
- Develop new TPE market
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