Pike Research’s study, ‘Desalination Technology Markets’, which analyzes emerging technologies and market opportunities in the global desalination industry, explores a variety of market growth drivers including dwindling water resources, population, pollution, and falling desalination system costs.
The report is also furnished with country-level market forecasts for key global markets through 2016 and key industry players are also profiled.
According to the report, the desalination plant supplier market is highly fragmented with the top five suppliers constituting only 25% of the market from 2007 to 2009, while the market for key desalination components is far more concentrated with more than 65% of the market for reverse osmosis membranes being controlled by three key players.
The markets for high-pressure pumps and energy recovery devices are also quite concentrated. Pike Research expects these dynamics to contribute to the growth of global desalination market.
Pike Research, which sees the Middle East/North Africa region as the global hub of desalination plant construction, forecasts that, in 2016, the top five markets in terms of installed capacity will be Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the US, China, and Israel.
Worldwide desalination capacity is estimated to reach 126 million cubic meters per day by 2016.
