Abstract
HIGHLIGHTS:
This Report:
- Discusses several identified categories of portable analysis
instrumentation and application areas where field based portable analysis
instrumentation can effectively be used
- Includes market forecasts for the global portable analysis market through
2013 for unknown substance identification including portable Raman
spectroscopy, portable flame ionzation (FID), energy dispersive x-ray
spectroscopy, chemical analysis, field mass spectrometers, field
chromatography, field molecular spectroscopes, field microanalysis, portable
FTIP spectrometers and handheld XRF analyzers, and known/targeted substance
analysis including NBC personnel protection, toxic gas detection for the
field, real-time solid and particulate detection and analysis, and
medical/therapeutic substance testing and diagnostics
- Analyzes the industry on a worldwide basis, from both a market and product
perspective and a technology perspective
- Identifies regulations in the U.S. and global markets
- Profiles leading companies.
SCOPE AND FORMAT
The scope of this study encompasses several identified categories of portable
analysis instrumentation and several application areas in which field-based
portable analysis instrumentation can effectively be used.
BCC analyzed the industry on a worldwide basis, from a market and product
perspective as well as a technology perspective. Regulations in the U.S. and
global markets were also examined to identify consumer safety, product
introduction, and product safety regulatory issues for stakeholders and
potential stakeholders in this industry.
Consideration has been taken for the changing economy, and all statistical
reporting and forecasting takes into account current trends and other
available data indicating company, product, and application stability or
instability. Clearly, not every factor can be taken into account, particularly
because companies with no indication of financial instability have gone
seemingly instantly from near giants in their field to bankruptcy and
dissolution. In reality, close scrutiny of financial reporting should reveal
many such trends, however, there are increasing indications that either
through inefficient or positively deceptive accounting and fiscal reporting,
or through mismanagement, a remarkably large number of these companies claim
to have genuinely been unaware of their pending status change.
METHODOLOGY
BCC presents an analysis across the entire portable analysis instrumentation
industry based on reported revenue dollars and units shipped as reported to
the SEC and/or other governmental agencies. Also analyzed are data gathered
from various research sources via the Internet, including the United States
Patent Office (USPTO) databases of U.S. Patents and Patent Applications,
Micropatent' s searchable databases for U.S. and international patents and
other IP issues, and the searchable database available on the Internet from
the European Patent Office for World and U.S. patents and patent applications.
INFORMATION SOURCES
BCC interviewed primary sources from many different stakeholder companies in
the portable analysis instrumentation industry, and also analyzed public
documents, SEC filings, corporate white papers and other technical
documentation for several dozen U.S. and International companies directly
involved in the manufacture and distribution of portable analysis
instrumentation.
Additionally, BCC analyzed more than 1,500 design and utility patents filed in
the U.S. and throughout the world on portable analysis instrumentation related
inventions, reducing the number to 354 patents directly relevant to the
subject matter of this market research report.
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