Research and Markets: Latin American Heat Exchangers Market

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/47eae6/latin_american_hea) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Latin American Heat Exchangers Market" to their offering.
This study covers the state of the Latin American Heat Exchangers Market, examining drivers and restraints for growth, pricing, distribution, technology, legislation, demand and geographical trends. Following from these, market growth for regional and market segments are forecasted. In addition, an in-depth analysis of the competitive situation including vendors' market shares is performed, along with detailed profiles of the key vendors in the industry. The base year is 2008 with forecasts running through 2015. The market is further divided into four subsegments including shell and tubes, cooling towers, plate and air-cooled heat exchangers. Detailed analysis of five Latin American countries is included.
Market Overview and Definitions
Heat exchangers are devices used to transfer heat from a fluid or gas to another. This study does not consider products used to generate heat such as boilers and furnaces. Heat exchangers perform heat transfer by using different media such as air, gas, water, steam, oil, refrigerant, heat transfer fluids, glycol metals, and polymers. These heat exchangers are used for many manufacturing processes such as cooling, distilling, heating, heat transfers, pasteurization, vapor recovery, reactor slurry, evaporation and condensation, and others.
The study analyzes the heat exchangers market by three main criteria - product, end user, and geographical segmentations. In order to facilitate the analysis, this research service comprises the following product types:

• Shell and tube heat exchangers
• Plate heat exchangers
• Air-cooled heat exchangers
• Cooling towers heat exchangers

As a method of effecting the transfer of heat, heat exchangers play a central role in heating and cooling systems used in process industries as well as ambient heating and ventilation and machinery cooling. Heat exchangers operate as part of a heat transfer system, which will contain several heat exchange devices as well as pumps and pipe work. Only heat exchangers are included in this analysis.
The end-user groups considered include:

• Oil and gas
• Chemicals
• Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
• Utilities
• Food, beverages, and dairy
• Others

As this study focuses on Latin America, the five regional markets covered include:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Mexico
• Venezuela

Latin America as a whole is showing signs of recovery and stabilization. From this perspective, market conditions are likely to hold potential, with activities rebounding due to resilient private consumption and an ongoing recovery in industrial production. Moreover, the increased environmental and water conservation awareness has caused end-user companies to evaluate heat exchanger options with greater thought and precision. Although the global economic downturn has adversely affected the purchase of new products, heat exchangers are viewed as a capital expenditure by end users. Investment in refineries in the oil and gas industry and new chemical plants are expected to drive sales in the Latin American heat exchangers market.
Key Topics Covered:

• 1 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 2 | TOTAL LATIN AMERICAN HEAT EXCHANGERS MARKET
• 3 | LATIN AMERICAN SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS MARKET
• 4 | LATIN AMERICAN COOLING TOWERS HEAT EXCHANGERS MARKET
• 5 | LATIN AMERICAN PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS MARKET
• 6 | LATIN AMERICAN AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGERS MARKET
• 7 | APPENDIX

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