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Ceramic Dielectric Materials

World Markets, Technologies & Opportunities:
1998-2002 Technical-Economic Analysis

This detailed market analysis covers the worldwide market for raw materials for the
production of ceramic capacitors. The study features various titanates and includes:

1. Technology overview:
   • Processes for titanate material production
   • Processes for capacitor manufacture (Single-layer, MLCC)
   • Structure of dielectric materials markets
   
   

2. World market overview with analyses and forecasts:
   • Consumption of barium titanate
   • Consumption of neodymium titanate
   • Feedstock (barium carbonate, titanium dioxide)
   • Formulated dielectrics (X7R, Y5V, COG)
   • Additives (complex dielectric materials development)
   • Competition in ceramic materials
   • Forecasts by world region: 1998-2002
   
   

3. Detailed discussion of markets by world region:
   • Consumption of dielectric material
   • Ceramic capacitor configuration (single-layer, MLC chip, MLC leaded)
   
   

4. Raw material usage and supply:
   • Consumption of dielectric material by ceramic capacitor manufacturer
   • Demand for NPO dielectric
   • Demand for X7R dielectric
   • Demand for Y5V/Z5U dielectric
   • Demand by dielectric constant
   • Forecasts of demand by performance characteristic
   • Forecasts of demand by MLCC case size
   
   

5. Special topics:
   • trends in manufacturing with base metals & its effects
   • trends in MLCC manufacture (doctor blade, gravure-die coating, reverse-roll coating,
     slurry mixtures, carrier tapes)
   • trends in dielectric thickness
   • tape casting method of manufacture
   
   

6. Competitive information is given for suppliers of raw materials for ceramic capacitors:
   • Cabot
   • Cookson/TAM
   • Degussa
   • Ferro/Transelco
   • Fuji Titanium
   • JCI
   • Kyoritsu Corporation
   • Sakai Chemical
   • Starck
   • Toho Titanium
   • and many more
   
   

ISBN#0-929717-76-7 (100 Pages, US$995.00, Extra copies US$99.50)

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Updated: 18 December 2000

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