Koncept Analytics Report on Heavy Duty Diesel (HDD) Catalyst Market

May 22, 2008 - PRLog -- Globally, vehicle emission legislations are tightening and this has a major impact on the growth of automotive catalyst market that has shown relatively slow growth in the last few years. However, the market for automotive catalysts should start to grow fast as vehicle emission regulations have already been implemented for all heavy duty diesel (HDD) vehicles in Europe in October 2006 and in the United States in January 2007.

The automotive catalyst market that remained almost non-existent in 2005 is expected to grow into a billion dollar market by 2010 because of the new legislation for heavy duty diesel engines. The market is likely to get a further fillip by 2011 when legislation for off-road or non-road diesel (NRD) engines is also going to be implemented.  NRD engine legislation will require various industries like construction, agriculture and mining to adhere to the same emission standards as HDD vehicles.

Players like Johnson Matthey, Umicore and Engelhard (acquired by BASF) are going to take a major share of the automotive catalyst market. While Johnson Matthey is likely to be the leader in the automotive catalyst market, Umicore has strategically positioned itself in the HDD vehicle market by acquiring the automotive catalyst division of Delphi.

The report broadly includes the following

Figures and Tables

Figure 1.1: Annual US fuel use by vehicle class
Figure 4.1: Total Number of vehicles over 3.5 metric tones by Geography: 2005
Figure 4.2: Total projected vehicles over 3.5 metric tones by Geography: 2010
Figure 4.3: Sales of Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles: 2005 & 2006
Figure 4.4: Sales Forecast of Heavy Duty Vehicles: 2007 & 2008
Figure 5.1:  HDD Catalyst Market Size: 2006-2015
Figure 5.2:  NRD Catalyst Market Size: 2011-2015
Figure 6.1: HDD Market Share of Leading Players
Figure 6.2: Johnson Matthey’s Sales by Segment (1H07)
Figure 6.3: Engelhard’s Sales by Segment (1H07)
Figure 6.4: Umicore’s segment contribution by EBIT - 2006
Table 1.1: Production of Diesel engines by region
Table 3.1: HDD On Road Regulation Development
Table 3.2: HDD Non Road Regulation Development

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