Summary

New report, “Global Membrane Market for Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment Forecasts and Analysis to 2015″, provides key data, information and analysis on the global membrane market. The report provides key market data and forecasts, market trends and competitive landscape analysis for the global membrane market. The research discusses market dynamics in detail by providing analytical content on the key trends affecting the market. It also reviews the revenue trends and characterizes various local markets and assesses the market potential for water and wastewater treatment equipment consumption.

Estimates that the membrane treatment market for industrial water and wastewater is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13% from $2.3 billion in 2008 through 2015 to reach $5.5 billion. Globally, microfiltration membrane treatment is likely to witness 15% CAGR growth during 2008 to 2015. The growth can largely be attributed to increasing use of microfiltration membranes in industrial wastewater treatment. Increasing volume production and technological improvements have reduced capital cost of membrane systems and operating cost to the point that membrane treatment is now seen as a viable alternative in many water and wastewater applications. Declining costs are stimulating the membrane treatment growth in the industrial sector.

Technological improvements resulting in cost reduction is identified as one of the key drivers for the growth of the membrane-based treatment market. Reduced prices have actuated interest of end user industries in the technology. The price of membrane modules has been declining over the past few years, primarily due to increased focus on research and development to improve product offering and also due to an increasingly competitive marketplace.This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in house analysis by Global Markets Direct’s team of industry experts.

Scope

The report analyses market opportunities and challenges for the membrane module and equipment suppliers in the global arena. Its scope includes:

Key geographies for membrane markets including Asia Pacific, Europe, the US, with all of the Latin American countries (including Mexico), African countries and countries from the Middle East covered under Rest of the world

Market size data for key markets — the US, Europe covering all member countries of European Union and Asia Pacific countries include all Landlocked, Peninsular and Islandic countries in the Continent of Asia, ASEAN, Australasia and other Pacific Islands

Annualized market revenues data of the global membrane industry from 2004 to 2008, forecast forward for 7 years to 2015

Qualitative analysis of market drivers, restraints, future outlook and challenges for the global membrane market

Competitive landscape and the leading membrane treatment processes. Key players covered include GE Water & Process Technologies, Siemens Water Technologies Corp, Pall Corporation, Toray Industries, Inc. and Koch Membrane Systems, Inc

Key topics covered include water treatment equipment industry landscape and prospect market assessment

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Global Membrane Market for Water and Wastewater Treatment Forecasts and Analysis to 2015

Summary

New report, “Global Membrane Market for Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment Forecasts and Analysis to 2015”, provides key data, information and analysis on the global membrane market. The report provides key market data and forecasts, market trends and competitive landscape analysis for the global membrane market. The research discusses market dynamics in detail by providing analytical content on the key trends affecting the market. It also reviews the revenue trends and characterizes various local markets and assesses the market potential for water and wastewater treatment equipment consumption.

Estimates that the membrane treatment market for industrial water and wastewater is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13% from $2.3 billion in 2008 through 2015 to reach $5.5 billion. Globally, microfiltration membrane treatment is likely to witness 15% CAGR growth during 2008 to 2015. The growth can largely be attributed to increasing use of microfiltration membranes in industrial wastewater treatment. Increasing volume production and technological improvements have reduced capital cost of membrane systems and operating cost to the point that membrane treatment is now seen as a viable alternative in many water and wastewater applications. Declining costs are stimulating the membrane treatment growth in the industrial sector.

Technological improvements resulting in cost reduction is identified as one of the key drivers for the growth of the membrane-based treatment market. Reduced prices have actuated interest of end user industries in the technology. The price of membrane modules has been declining over the past few years, primarily due to increased focus on research and development to improve product offering and also due to an increasingly competitive marketplace.This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in house analysis by Global Markets Direct’s team of industry experts.

Scope

The report analyses market opportunities and challenges for the membrane module and equipment suppliers in the global arena. Its scope includes:

Key geographies for membrane markets including Asia Pacific, Europe, the US, with all of the Latin American countries (including Mexico), African countries and countries from the Middle East covered under Rest of the world

Market size data for key markets — the US, Europe covering all member countries of European Union and Asia Pacific countries include all Landlocked, Peninsular and Islandic countries in the Continent of Asia, ASEAN, Australasia and other Pacific Islands

Annualized market revenues data of the global membrane industry from 2004 to 2008, forecast forward for 7 years to 2015

Qualitative analysis of market drivers, restraints, future outlook and challenges for the global membrane market

Competitive landscape and the leading membrane treatment processes. Key players covered include GE Water & Process Technologies, Siemens Water Technologies Corp, Pall Corporation, Toray Industries, Inc. and Koch Membrane Systems, Inc

Key topics covered include water treatment equipment industry landscape and prospect market assessment

For more information, please visit :
http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/Global-Membrane-Market-for-Water-and-Wastewater-Treatment-Forecasts-and-Analysis-to-2015-33835.html
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Phase I involved the introduction of the highly innovative Global Opportunity and Threat Analysis Program as a compulsory paper at IIPM. Students are given an unique opportunity to visit various leading international organizations like World Bank, WHO, UN, and many more apart from management institutions and global corporates for a two week study trip to the European, American and Asian continents.

Phase II involved the introduction of another innovative concept – faculty members from around the world visits IIPM campuses in India to take classes and workshops. These faculty are the best in their chosen subjects and represent Ivy league institutes like Harvard, Kellogg, Columbia, Chicago GSB, MIT and Yale apart from other leading European academic institutions of excellence like Cambridge and Oxford University.

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Phase IV was another ground-breaking approach by IIPM, whereby, it has now decided to expand beyond the national boundary and start up campuses in foreign lands.

Why Investors like Singapore, is it because of GIP (Global Investor Programme)? The success of the Global Investor Programme can be attributed to great teamwork. What started out as an internal EDB objective to review its entrepreneurship programme, became an interagency collaborative effort to develop a holistic programme that caters to global investors in terms of our entry policy for foreigners interested in doing business here. The GIP eases the way for foreign investors, entrepreneurs and business executives to set up and conduct businesses in Singapore. EDB will provide assistance in linking up foreign entrepreneurs and investors with local business networks, thus opening up more opportunities for business collaborations. This Programme comprises of four key schemes offering a range of immigration options for the investors, entrepreneurs, and business executives.

1.    Permanent Residence for Investors
2.    Multiple Journey visa
3.    Social Visit Pass for Entrepreneurs
4.    Entrepass

Permanent Residence for Investors: Under this scheme investors can seek permanent Residence status in Singapore and will be qualified if he/ she

•    Invest at least S$1 million in a new business startup or expansion of an existing business operation or
•    Invest at least S$1.5 million in a new business startup, expansion of an existing operation, approved Singapore-incorporated venture capital fund or Singapore-incorporated foundation or trust that focuses on economic development or
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Other investment vehicles such as venture capital funds, foundations or trusts, and/or private residential properties will be considered for application for Permanent Resident applications. Up to 50% of the investment can be in private residential properties, subject to foreign ownership restrictions under the Residential Property Act (RPA).

Multiple Journey visa facilitates the frequent entry of business executives from visa-requiring countries into Singapore. Multiple visits, each lasting up to 30 days, are allowed during the validity period of the visa which may be for 1,2 or 5 year depending on the prevailing ICA’s guidelines. The application has to be submitted along with a Letter of Introduction from a Singapore Registered company. This eliminates the Visa application for each visit. This will be of immense relief to investors who have to travel frequently to Singapore to attend to their business and investments.

Social Visit Pass for Entrepreneurs enables an applicant to stay in Singapore for 6 months, to explore business opportunities, conduct feasibility studies or complete negotiations. During the validity period the holder can leave and reenter Singapore without any hassle. The application for the SVP has to be furnished along with a support letter from the EDB. To obtain a Letter of Support from the EDB the applicant has to provide an overview of the business indicating Objective of your stay, area of business interest, Preliminary business idea, Target market , Development strategy & proposed timeline, Track record of previous business ventures ,if any, Relevant skills & work experiences. It normally takes 5 days for the letter of support to be issued by the EDB while the SVP will be issued by the ICA quite immediately on the day of submitting the application or on the following day.

EntrePass is designed to facilitate the entry and stay of entrepreneurs in Singapore to directly manage the business operations, and comes with an initial validity period of up to 2 years. It is renewable as long as the business remains viable and lucrative. The EntrePass also allows the applicant’s immediate family to live in Singapore while the successful applicants start and grow their business here. With the EntrePass a person can leave and re-enter Singapore frequently with ease. The lucrative nature of business and efficacy of the business plan are the primary criteria for the Entrepass. Normally it takes around six weeks to know the outcome of the application.

Ms. Ragini Dhanvantray CEO of Rikvin consultancy offering a comprehensive Business Migration service for investors and entrepreneurs says “Singapore is emerging as the hub of Asia for almost all industry, offers the best quality of life and a safe option for investing. With assured return on investment investors and business men are keen to enter and explore the opportunity that this city state has to offer, and government facilitates such aspirants with focused programmes like the GIP. The overwhelming enquiries from the overseas investors ever since the launch of the programme has been growing in leaps and bounds and we are offering a full suit of service to such clients”.

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Apart from the rate cut, Central Bankers pumped in huge money ($350 billion) into the system to temporarily tackle and contain the credit crunch thus providing more liquidity to the capital markets. ‘Escape from Sub prime’ has been one of the most sought after policy of some major lenders, bankers and NBFC’s who have substantial

exposure to the US subprime market collapse. It is on this context that analysts as well as the

policy makers have been much worried about an US economic slowdown, since housing market collapse in the US might lead to a full blown economic downturn due to co-related consumer expenditures. More housing starts and home sales mean more household goods per capita consumption, more people buying household appliances, accessories and others. While less credit in the system spells doom both for the auto industry which thrives on car loans based on easy credits as well as home loan originations that boost the housing and real estate markets.

Investors, anticipating US market trouble have sought shelter elsewhere where they have been parking their money in the Emerging Markets that has been consistently showing remarkable and sustained growth prospect. Though the market shake-off due to the US impact did pull down the emerging equity markets, the strong export driven fast paced developing nations are in-fact in their finest economic tunes since the last Asian Financial crisis in 1997.Quite equally the remarkable economic expansion and financial reforms undertaken by two of the world’s most fastest developing nations-China and India boasting 8-10% on average GDP growth rate.

Analysts feel much of the ill-effects due to the subprime crisis could be well cushioned by emerging Asian nations. Consumer demand and

expenditure are quite high on account of the newfound wealth in these countries, with the others joining the bandwagon, particularly Russia, Brazil, South Africa, India, China

(BRICS), Hong Kong, South Korea and Taipei . The other Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, (ASEAN) nations have been performing well within their macroeconomic parameters.

Analyst might have had a view that the growing Asian economy might buffer any major US downturn, but since US still remains the major importer from these countries, and being the world’s largest economy (US$13.5 trillion), followed by Japan (US$4.5 trillion) which has been into a ‘deflationary stagflation’ phase since the late 90’s, concerns about export slowdown to these major partners lingering amongst the market participants. A further credit market tightening could jeopardize the corporate mega deals and stall major expansion programs. Fund raising may be hit hard if investor sentiments are towed down with increased risk aversion.

Few investors would like to lose money and in-fact is likely to seek better investment returns when the markets are performing well. Foreign investments into equity markets have increased considerably in the emerging markets where good corporate growth and higher returns are attracting global investors pouring liquidity into the stock markets. These factors have created in-effect, asset price rise and stock market bubbles in several countries like China and India. Markets are reacting to any global clues, either from the Fed, major Central Banks or the political changes affecting monetary and economic policies of such countries.

On the global currency frontier, continued weakening of the US dollar against the major traded currencies like euro, pound, Canadian dollar and the yen has been creating much debate among currency strategists whether to let the US dollar find its own ground or to mediate. Analysts, according to Bloomberg, also have a view that if the ‘Greenback’ is allowed to fall too rapidly then investors would dumb the dollar backed assets. In-fact the dollar has depreciated much to the extent of 10% against some currencies like the euro and the Indian Rupee, as recently noted by Asia-Pacific Head, Mark Mathews of Merrill Lynch. The emerging market currencies also appreciated considerably on account of huge capital inflows and the rise in demand for their domestic assets and currencies from overseas

investors.

With the ever increasing importance of Renminbi as a major Asian currency, the US dollar seems to have been taking a back seat. Though, it has been not so, according to currency strategists, since the US is still the largest market for investing, operating business and the biggest export market for the emerging economies.

Volatility in the global stock markets on the aftermath of the US subprime has increased since the housing market slowdown affected the mortgage backed bonds considerably. These bonds based on subprime loans, have been downgraded by S&P and Moody’s rating services since investors have been dumping these MBS bonds on fear of further losses. Many banks and financial institutions have bought these bonds as their portfolios to be traded on the stock markets across the board. When the borrowers started defaulting on their home loans, investors moved away from these bonds, reducing their demands among investors with mounting losses reported by major hedge funds houses and investment banks who own these bonds, thus accounting huge losses on these Asset Backed Securities (ABS).

The reports of these exposures, somewhat around USD 1 trillion brought down investor sentiments and in turn decreased the investors risk appetites. Stock markets across the globe reacted sharply whenever losses related to the subprime were reported, with markets crashing down wiping out substantial investor wealth (USD2.5 trillion) of the US equity market value. Elsewhere, markets have also tasted downturns along with some big rallies and bull runs, particularly in the emerging markets like India, China and Hong Kong ,Nikkie,etc. In fact, the Hang Seng has gained as much as it has lost since this month when it touched 31,000 point mark, before losing around 10% of its value within a month and now trading at 27,000 points.

The BSE (Sensex)of India has also been through biggest bull market rallies when it touched the 20,000 points for the first time. The China SCI 300 has been one such biggest stock market bubble as enormous capital is chasing the Shanghai stock exchange. The Hong Kong provides a big platform for raising capital and issuing IPO’s, as we have noticed some of the biggest IPO’s being issued here by China’s ICBC, CCB, PetroChina, Baidu.com,

Alibaba.com, etc. It seems corporate sectors in India and China are at there best times for issuing IPO’s. Recently PetroChina, according to Bloomberg.com, has become the world’s first company to reach a market capitalization of USD 1 trillion, and with this, being crowned as the largest listed company.

China has also been reported to have 106 billionaires, up from only 15 last year, according to Shanghai-based Hurun Report published in Bloomberg. India, having somewhat similar good story, has been reported to having three of the world’s top 10 richest individuals in the Forbes’s list.

In the Indian scenario, FII’s are bidding for IPO’s to get a pie of the bustling Indian capital markets. There has been much concern from the Sebi to counter the capital inflow into the equity markets via PN route, (an alternative route for unregistered investors to enter the capital markets). Policy makers are worried about too much money chasing too few stocks which might create stock market and asset price bubble. Inflation is well under control, around 3.5%, but there always remains the fear of an inflationary pressure due to the crude oil price shock- currently trading near $100 per barrel at the Nymex. It seems that oil has been moving the markets to some extent as concerns about supply constraint and Iran crisis looms high, and a supply cut from Mexican Gulf due to a hurricane has made the situation worst.

Recent oil price shock might cast a bad spell on the developing nations who import crude oil at such high price, and the accompanying inflation could push the prices of commodities still higher in those countries if effective monetary policy regime and economic reforms are not initiated. The currency collapse of Zimbabwe, where there

has been a situation of hyperinflation as prices are rising every other minute, reserves exhausted, shortage of essential commodities and lack of effective monetary policy has resulted in an alarming situation.

Whereas, some equity markets in the African subcontinent, according to clickafrique.com, giving attractive returns on investments in 2005- as high as 116% (Zambia) 81% (Uganda), investors see this as a major opportunity to foray into the untapped resources in Africa and bring in liquid

investments to mobilize those untapped resources.

Overall, the Asian emerging markets and their counterparts are doing well, lest the subprime crisis, where one has to look out for possible ways to tackle the failing mortgage bonds and the investment community’s exposure to such. Any cues from the US could affect the markets since equity markets today are have become much sensitive to any news or information’s flowing to the markets that are enough to tickle the market sentiments.

Sources: Bloomberg, Economic Times, Xinhua,Rueter

Global equity markets have been through volatile times and we noticed some rebound since been affected by the US subprime mortgage market collapse. What started of in the subprime sector enveloped the prime home loan as well as the securitized debt markets as a spillover effect. Yet, the Fed and the Central banks were quick enough to buffer the market crisis with the former cutting interest rates and the later pumping huge money, around $550 billion till now, into the markets. The cumulative effort saw the markets react with some bull rallies before turning volatile again. The CME volatility index has been around 21-23 last month against 37 in August, the highest since last year. Some banking consolidation has taken place since the subprime with major investment banks re-pricing risks on MBS bonds. Hedge funds also have reported some big losses exposed to the MBS bonds.

The other prime market mover is the crude oil, which have in fact quite rude on the markets. Oil price shock with Nymex touching nearly $100, have had enough stress on the economy. The OPEC is expecting some oil price moderation and the oil is expected to settle in the range of $ 70-$ 85 per barrel in 2008. The depreciating US $ have been implicated to be one of the cause of rising crude oil price, apart from supply constraint and gulf events. Sustained oil price rise could prove detrimental for the already struggling US economy, as it might further accentuate the chance of an US economic slowdown, fearing a faltering in Asian exports, according to Bloomberg.

We have also noticed some risk de-leveraging in the alternative investment sectors, but that would be a temporary effect, according to global economists, which they expect to pass off in recent times as investors, now being more risk averse, will tend to diversify their asset holdings in the emerging markets. Liquidity crunch within the interbank system have been somewhat contained with prompt central bank interventions, but credit conditions beyond the banking sector remain much stressed. Global investors certainly look forward for a better 2008 as macro-economic fundamentals have started to improve since the last quarter.

One of the prime agenda of the Bush administration and the Fed is targeted to rescuing distressed mortgage lenders and sheltering subprime borrowers. These measures have indeed upgraded the investor sentiments while they await to see more aid from the Fed, if it likely be so needed to cut interest rates further. Fed Fund rate outlook for the next session hovers around 4.0% or even 3.5%-3.75%, industry analysts expect.

Market Pulse-Asia-Pacific- Feeling the stability!

With stabilization of global assets, equity markets might see some rebounds as indices in the emerging markets have been in their best rallies in recent times. The BSE crossed a big milestone when it touched the 20k mark around October. The Hang Seng did cross the 30k mark too. It has been implicated that the opening up of investment opportunities for Chinese investors to invest outside China for the first time have been met with success, with more investors investing in H-shares traded in Hang Seng as an alternative to the A-shares trading at Shanghai’s SCI 300. This has also created an arbitrage opportunity for the same share being traded both in Hang Seng and SCI 300.

The Asia-Pacific market pulse indicates some positive trends in the coming, partly because of some recovery in the global equity markets, except Nikkie-225 that lost around 11% for the first time in last five years, and partly by the inflow of some good information about the US labor markets, consumer sentiments and about the festive season. With C/A surpluses of Asian economies and better industrial production rates in China, India, these countries have the least minimum exposures to US subprime and a likely US or Chinese slowdown, however, enjoys substantial freedom from a sudden capital outflow or a rapid currency devaluation as it happened during the last Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, according to some analyst.

Emerging markets are awash with abundant liquidity to propel their growth engines toward sustaining this economic boom in a healthy pulse, even in the event of an impending US slowdown. It should however be noted that the Dow Jones P/E ratios are far lower than their Asian counterparts which awaits some corrections likely, of the Chinese SCI 300, as the economy have become overheated , according to Bloomberg and other economists. On a sector-wise outlook, three sectors seems to have caught the fire in the markets; i.e, the cement, steel and the Oil. Prevailing infrastructure boom in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and others, correlate between the sector performances with the infrastructure and real estate growth in these countries. The mineral stocks like copper, silicon are likely favored long term stocks as well as the diamond sector and the gold stocks and the utilities, that is expected to do well even in a bad market.

Global Liquidity-Is there enough out there?

Global markets now have more liquidity and assets than any other time in history. With buoyant credit markets funding LBO deals on high leverages along with the participation of Private Equity players, there is no dearth in liquidity in the market. If the developed markets are supplying liquidity, the Emerging markets are contributing to this sustaining the economic growth, like China that contributed to the highest global growth last year-15.6% compared to 15.4% from the US. In private capital investments, US and the Japan are the major sources of liquidity in the markets, with a bulk of it from the US. As such, any major US downturn would generally hit the credit markets hard and the Asian exports would be hit due to a low consumption in the US. India, being on the forefront with major infrastructure programs being financed, which would otherwise be delayed if hit by a credit halt.

Remittances from NRI’s (Non Resident Indians) form a substantial source of forex reserve in India as like Philippines, and as such, any events effecting demands for foreign workers in US and the gulf could have an effect on inward remittances. Analysts have a view that the Central Banks now should be more active in smoothing out any volatility, credit problems or other factors that might have some adverse effects on the markets.

India Outlook

With an ever increasing India’s middle class (100-200 million), along with the consumer boom that has started to take shape lately, India is flying high in the global capital markets like a dove. More FDI and FII are flowing into the markets, targeting hot sectors like IT, real estate and the infrastructure. Annual FDI flow close to US $30 billion are expected to hit the markets and will be canalized to the fund crunched much needed infrastructure sector. India is wooing Japan to invest in India’s infra-techs, one such example being the successful completion of the Delhi metro rail project. The ambitious plan drawn up to create DMIC, -Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridors of 1500 km long, at a projected cost of around US$90 billion is under consideration by the central planning commission. The government wants to create SPV (special purpose vehicles) to fund the project. And with multiple SEZs on the pipeline, it seems India has entered the same construction boom that prevailed during Deng Xiaoping’s era in China, early 1980’s. Recent visit by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to India and Indonesia did boost up Indo-Japan tie. Japan might be hedging against the dependency on China—an event that could be related to his more inclined visit to India.

However, Japan would be reluctant to deteriorate any ties with China, as India-Japan-China has more become like economic allies rather than pure competitor to say. India, would also like to take the opportunity to improve bilateral ties with

China, since India and China constitute the two largest and fastest growing economies in the world. Neither India nor Japan would like to jeopardize each other’s ties with China in the meantime. Though it is obvious that China and India would at some point of time in future will become chief competitors of Japan.

Thus, it throws some light that how India has positioned itself within the Asia-Pacific region demanding more attention in the regional economic cooperation and multilateral free trade ties with the ASEAN nations. Along with the US Nuke deal, India is also counting to tap on the Japan’s and France’s civilian nuclear technology for its energy demands. What could give a real boost to the FTA in the Asia-Pacific region if India lowers or removes some tariff on component businesses from Japan, the same Indonesia did remove tariffs on auto-components from Japan, and Japan responded with removing tariffs on agricultural imports from Indonesia. In Fact, Indonesia is still a bigger trade partner of Japan than India, and India needs to look into this prospect.

Bilateral trade between Japan and India stands around $8.5 billion and is projected to reach $14-20 billion by 2010-2012. Even though, due to widening of investment options for Indians, there might be a continued upside potential for the BSE Sensex, since some analysts have a view that BSE could reach well beyond 23k next year, and with continued upswing, there might be more overseas investors queuing up the lane, if all goes well.

See JETRO for more on Japan’s International Trade.

Forex Markets: Exchange Rate Swings

Major traded currencies like $ and the Yen have been highly volatile, and in-fact, the dollar has lost around 10% against global currency majors. The Indian rupee has appreciated further on account of FII inflows, and some analysts expect the rupee to tighten further till 36-37/$ mark as against 39.41/$ at present. But the Rupee along with other Asian currencies is also vulnerable to risk of devaluation against a sudden reversal in capital flow dynamics, i.e., capital flight. Though it may not likely to happen in the near term as long as the dollar remains week and the emerging market growth story remains firm. The Yen appreciation to 113/$ saw the unwinding of carry trade, a tool where one borrows cheap and invests in higher yielding assets. The low interest scenario of Japan-0.50% and the continued deflation has put the Japanese yen under pressure, which saw resumption in carry trade. There was a short term bounce in GBP/JPY (219/£) against the Yen (¥) trading at 248/£ in August this year and the present range have been somewhere around a low ¥111-119/$, according to Bloomberg and ET.

The Philippine Peso has also appreciated by 10% and thus risks depreciation if the US economy slows down. Since about 10% of Philippines are overseas workers that contribute remittances from abroad which constitute 10% of their GDP, a slowdown in Gulf or the US might affect the inward remittances in Philippines, thus hurting their consumer boom. There has been much pressure from the G7 nations to revalue the Chinese yen, as it has maintained an artificial low since it got un-pegged from the US $. The Chinese Yuan is devalued around 12% against the US$ that is causing much un-pleasure since it has resulted in a huge trade imbalance between the US and the China. This is in part good for the Chinese exporters who enjoy marginal competition among the Asian exporters.

Since consumption constitutes around 70% of US GDP, credit squeeze in the US could hurt the corporate sector that might bring down consumer sentiment heavily. According to analysts, real GDP in US is growing by around 2.3% y-o-y, and some analysts forecast it around 3.2% at best. The US still remains the largest economy followed by Japan, and with an increased possibility of the US slowdown, the growth story of the emerging markets might sing on the wrong tune. An equity outflow from the Asian markets could also trigger forex weakness, since emerging markets have increased their foreign ownership in stock market capitalization. As the US still remains the major investor in global economy, a redemption pressure in the US could also jeopardize the ambitious plans in the emerging nations. Considering all these risk factors on currencies, it might be said that the financial markets in Asia are in better shape than what they were in 1997-98, during the Asian financial crisis and it likely to buffer to some extent if a full fledge global economic slowdown comes around.

This report provides key data, information and analysis on the global membrane market. The report provides key market data and forecasts, market trends and competitive landscape analysis for the global membrane market. The research discusses market dynamics in detail by providing analytical content on the key trends affecting the market. It also reviews the revenue trends and characterizes various local markets and assesses the market potential for water and wastewater treatment equipment consumption. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=125850&rt=Global-Membrane-Market-for-Water-and-Wastewater-Treatment-Forecasts-and-Analysis-to-2015.html )

It estimates that the membrane treatment market for industrial water and wastewater is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13% from $2.3 billion in 2008 through 2015 to reach $5.5 billion. Globally, microfiltration membrane treatment is likely to witness 15% CAGR growth during 2008 to 2015. The growth can largely be attributed to increasing use of microfiltration membranes in industrial wastewater treatment. Increasing volume production and technological improvements have reduced capital cost of membrane systems and operating cost to the point that membrane treatment is now seen as a viable alternative in many water and wastewater applications. Declining costs are stimulating the membrane treatment growth in the industrial sector.

Technological improvements resulting in cost reduction is identified as one of the key drivers for the growth of the membrane-based treatment market. Reduced prices have actuated interest of end user industries in the technology. The price of membrane modules has been declining over the past few years, primarily due to increased focus on research and development to improve product offering and also due to an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Scope

The report analyses market opportunities and challenges for the membrane module and equipment suppliers in the global arena. Its scope includes:
- Key geographies for membrane markets including Asia Pacific, Europe, the US, with all of the Latin American countries (including Mexico), African countries and countries from the Middle East covered under Rest of the world
- Market size data for key markets — the US, Europe covering all member countries of European Union and Asia Pacific countries include all Landlocked, Peninsular and Islandic countries in the Continent of Asia, ASEAN, Australasia and other Pacific Islands
- Annualized market revenues data of the global membrane industry from 2004 to 2008, forecast forward for 7 years to 2015
- Qualitative analysis of market drivers, restraints, future outlook and challenges for the global membrane market
- Competitive landscape and the leading membrane treatment processes. Key players covered include GE Water & Process Technologies, Siemens Water Technologies Corp, Pall Corporation, Toray Industries, Inc. and Koch Membrane Systems, Inc
- Key topics covered include water treatment equipment industry landscape and prospect market assessment

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