NEWS RELEASE                                                                                                   MAY 2012

Air Pollution Control System Purchases to Exceed $51 Billion in 2012

Sales of air pollution control systems will exceed $51 billion this year. The power industry will account for nearly half the purchases. This is the finding of the McIlvaine Company based on aggregating information from its various market reports.

Fabric filters have not yet penetrated the worldwide power industry. As a result, sales to the cement, steel, mining and other industrial segments will be five times larger than sales to the power segment. In future years this ratio is predicted to change substantially as power plants replace precipitators with fabric filters to meet new regulations on air toxics and fine particulate.

The FGD systems purchased by the power industry are similar to the scrubbing systems purchased by the industrial sector. The power plant purchases of DeNO_x systems using catalyst will greatly exceed the combined DeNO_x and thermal/catalytic systems purchased by industry.

There will be substantial purchases of fans and compressors associated with these systems. When air pollution control equipment is added to existing combustion systems it creates substantial back pressure. This often results in replacement of existing system fans.

Asia will account for more than half the air pollution control system purchases. China will purchase more power plant air pollution control equipment than all of the European countries combined.

The market has become global. Some of the largest suppliers are home based in Europe and Japan. China has the leading precipitator companies in terms of revenue generation. The U.S. leads in terms of production of filter media. The U.S. is also the leader in FGD systems. However, this leadership is based on the inclusion of Alstom, a French company, as a U.S. based supplier. Its air pollution operations are in Tennessee and have been since it acquired Combustion Engineering many years ago.

Information on the larger market is found in Air Pollution Management.

There are specific reports available as follows:

Electrostatic Precipitators: World Market: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n018

World Fabric Filter and Element Market: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n021

FGD World Markets, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#N027

Scrubber/Adsorber/Biofilter World Markets: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com//brochures/air.html#n008   

Thermal/Catalytic World Air Pollution Markets:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/air.html#n007