The environmental industry worldwide is increasing fast again since two years ago with 12 per cent per year. The highest increase are in water and clean energies. Water counts for 34 per cent of the total markets and clean energies for 13 per cent, waste for 28 per cent and noise reduction for 2 per cent. Water and clean energies are on the global agenda again.
The vulnerable environment of earth, water, air and energy, as well as the soaring world population, demands more efficient and safe technologies to deal with waste, hazardous materials, cleaning and so on. More and more attention is put on the sustainable development, which causes no or lessdamages to environment. Environmental industry, together with other industries such as food, water, energy, sustainability, is indispensable for the constitution of a high-quality living space in the 21st Century.
Environment affects directly the health of people and the production of food. A society with advanced medical technology and food industry has big concern for environmental protection. The private spending and governmental investment will proportionally increase. Meantime the innovation and industrial basis in other Life Science industries will facilitate the development of environmental industry. As a result, the market for environmental technologies, clean energies, water and so on has shown a great increase, and the stock of the related companies rise sharply.
Markets for environmental Industry can be divided into four segments according to technology: End-of-pipe, Additive, Integrated and Zero emission. The primary technologies use conventional chemical and physical methods to meet the minimal requirement of waste.
The market totals 676 bn US$ in 2005 and still makes up the largest part of the whole industry. The second stage is additive technology. This stage serves as a bridge for the transformation from the traditional industry to the new nano-bio-neural-info based industry and has already taken 12 per cent of the market volume. Integrated new technologies on molecular scale will significantly promote the efficiency of dissolving the waste, eliminating the toxicoid and restoring the environment. However, the market volume is only 24 bn US$ in 2005. The ideal of environmental technology is zero-emission. In spite of some experiments of specific branches, the market is just at the start.
Although Asia has by far the largest growth rate in the worldwide environmental industry, especially in Japan and Korea, Europe will still lead in the technology development. The strong environmental consciousness and limited territory will stimulate European countries to adopt the most up-to-date innovations. USA will be a close competitor because of their gigantic industry scale and advanced Life Science technologies and nanotechnologies.
Sumber :
Portal Insinyur Kimia (BKK PII)
http://kolom.pacific.net.id/ind/artikel
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar