Market Trends of Self-Cleaning Glass Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Self Cleaning Glass Market according to our research experts:
Increasing Demand from Building & Construction Sector
- Self-cleaning glasses are widely used as glazing materials in the building envelope, as windows, as a partition inside the building infrastructure. Because of the ability of self-cleaning glasses to clean by itself, its application has rapidly increased in the construction sector over the recent years.
- The construction sector in Europe witnessed a growth of about 2% for the year 2019. Although there is a marginal decline in the growth of this sector, the use these self-cleaning glasses is expected to grow over the coming years.
- Self-cleaning glasses mostly have a hydrophobic coating on its surface making it surface repellent to most of the foreign particles and eliminates most of the accumulated waste that forms on it. Hydrophilic coating is even used but to a less extent because of its less efficiency.
- Self-cleaning glasses aids in reducing the maintenance cost because of which their application has increased in both residential and commercial buildings.
- Owing to all the above-mentioned factors, the market for self-cleaning glasses is expected to grow rapidly over the forecast period.
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Europe Region to Dominate the Market
- Europe region dominated the global market share. With growing construction industry in countries such as United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and France, the utilization of self-cleaning glasses is increasing in the region.
- Some of the largest producers of self-cleaning glasses in Europe are Pilkington, Saint-Gobain Limited, Tuffx Glass, Morley Glass & Glazing Ltd. United Kingdom is one the largest producers of self-cleaning glasses in the world.
- According to the European Commission, an estimated number of 570 projects have been registered for receiving EUR 60 million funding towards construction of these projects.
- Due to its self-cleaning ability, these glasses are being widely used to replace the glasses which are currently being used to manufacture solar panels. Hence, this has resulted in increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
- The aforementioned factors, coupled with government support, are contributing to the increasing demand for self-cleaning glasses in all the above-mentioned sectors during the forecast period.
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