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The World Market for Mass Flow Controllers, 4th
Edition analyzes the market for mass flow controllers (MFCs). The study
provides updates to key segmentations of this market, using a base year of
2024 and forecasts the market through 2029. This study is an update to our previous
studies of MFC market completed in 2008, 2012 and 2015, and 2019. It takes into
account recent technological innovations and describes the dynamic
business environment that exists today.
 The
mass flow controller (MFC) market is highly competitive, with a large
number of suppliers. In fact, it is one of the most rapidly
developing markets in the flowmeter world today. If you want to know
exactly where the mass flow controller market is going and just how
quickly it is growing, you'll want to order this study today.
Among
other trends, the MFC market is growing the fastest
in China, Western Europe, and North America, in that order. Economies in
China, India, and other emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere are driving
the MFC market upward. These economies are growing at a rapid pace and
have an expanding middle class.
Study Objectives
This study fulfills the following
objectives:
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· Determine the 2024 market size in US dollars and unit volumes for mass flow controllers
worldwide, both thermal and non-thermal types
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· Determines the current market shares of leading suppliers of mass flow controllers worldwide
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· Forecasts market growth
for all types of mass flow controllers through 2029
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Identifies industries and applications where mass flow controllers are
used, and to identify growth areas
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· Provides a product
analysis for the main manufacturer suppliers selling into the mass flow
controller market
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Provides strategies to manufacturers for selling into the mass flow
controller market
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Provides company profiles of the main suppliers of mass flow controllers
New markets
A
major portion of mass flow controllers are used in the semiconductor
industry for measuring gas flow, and that market is large. However,
the semiconductor market is unpredictable and cyclical, and more and more
MFC manufacturers are actively attempting to broaden their base in other
industrial and laboratory/research market spaces. Some of these segments
are growing faster than semiconductor manufacturing and hold the promise
of long-term MFC applications. New environmental applications such as fuel
cells and solar/photovoltaic have opened up avenues for MFCs. In addition,
new manufacturing processes and the push for automation in factories are
driving MFC market growth.
 In
the world of internet of things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, unique identifiers
permit networked devices to collect and share data with common control
points as well as with each other, and this capability is changing the way
industrial processes work. Increasingly, devices share performance data
that then changes their own operating status. The result is improved
process flows, reduced employee monitoring, faster response times to
changing process conditions, enhanced safety, and overall increases in
both production quality and volume. MFCs can provide accurate data points
and control in a way that some legacy flow measurement devices cannot.
Check
out these many industrial and lab/research applications for mass flow
controllers.
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Industrial Segment
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Applications
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Aerospace
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Hydraulic systems test
and fabrication; ventilation R&D; hardening canopies for jet
aircraft
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Analytical/gas
analyzers
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Analytical sampling;
gas sample preparation and measurement; verifying flow and pressure
for multiple gases flowing to and from gas chromatographs
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Automotive emissions
testing
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Emissions monitoring;
measuring compressed air; verification of SHED (Sealed Housing
for Evaporative Determination) operations; exhaust gases
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Biotech/pharmaceutical
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Process control of
reactor gases to fermentation; bioreactor gas management; maintain
quality in drug manufacturing, production, FDA testing, and culture
growing
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Chemical/petrochemical
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Measurement of gases in
chemical processes and manufacturing
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Electronics
manufacturing
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Manufacture of
computers, monitors, and other electronic equipment; laser welding
and cutting
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Fiber optics/glass
manufacturing
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Glass manufacturing;
ultraviolet coating on glass; fiber optics and glass coating;
bulletproof glass for cars; high purity optics for bathroom faucet
coatings
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Food and beverage
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Blending; process
control in bottling, drying, mixing, cooling; protective gases for
packaging; wine and beer making
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Fuel cells
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Measuring efficiency of
fuel cells
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Furnaces
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Flame control; gas
mixing and blending; burner control
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Gas distribution
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Gas consumption
measurement for internal accounting purposes
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Heat treating
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Burner control; welding
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LED lighting
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Particulate dispersal,
gas used in deposition, OLED
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Medical
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Check performance of
equipment; anesthesia; medical equipment manufacturing
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Metals processing
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Improve quality of
manufactured metals
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Packaging
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Protective gases for
packages
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Solar/Photovoltaic
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Application of thin
film coatings to panels
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Power
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Measurement of gases
used in power generation
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How they work
Mass
flow controllers contain an integrated control valve that is used to
control the flow as well as measure it.
Although
more MFC suppliers are introducing differential pressure (DP), ultrasonic,
and Coriolis technology, thermal technology continues to dominate.
The roots
of thermal flowmeters go
back to the hot wire anemometers that were used for airflow measurement in
the early 1900s, although thermal flowmeters were not introduced for
industrial applications until the 1970s.
Thermal
flowmeters use heat in making their flow measurements. Thermal
flowmeters put heat into the flowstream and use one or more temperature
sensors to measure how quickly this heat dissipates. Heat
dissipation is measured in two main ways:
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One
method of measuring heat dissipation keeps a heated sensor at a
constant temperature and measures how much current is needed to keep
it at that temperature.
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Another method measures the
temperature difference between the flowstream temperature and a heated
sensor.
What
is common to both methods is the idea that higher speed flow results in
increased cooling. Both measure the effects of this increased
cooling, and compute mass flow based on this result.
Coriolis-based
MFCs, however, offer better accuracy and operate independent of fluid
properties, and their sensor is by nature faster than a sensor based on
heat transfer. Ultrasonic technology MFCs also offer faster response time
to changes in flowrate than the thermal versions
In
addition to The World Market for Mass Flow Controllers, 4th
Edition, we have a separate study on thermal flowmeters, The World Market for Thermal Flowmeters, 3rd Edition.
Articles
About Mass Flow Controllers
Previous Mass
Flow Controller Studies
The World Market for Mass Flow Controller 3rd Edition
Published
July 2019
The
World Market Update for Mass Flow Controllers
Published
July 2015
The World Market for
Mass Flow Controllers, 2nd Edition
Published
July 2012
The
World Market for Mass Flow Controllers -
Published
July 2008
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About Mass Flow Controllers
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