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Global lactic acid consumption has been growing steadily and rapidly since 2008, and the market capacity has arrived at 800,000 tons in 2013. The United States is still the largest consumer market in the world, accounting for 31% of total lactic acid consumption in 2013; China surpassed Western Europe to become the second largest lactic acid market, with growth in consumption primarily benefiting from increasing demand in the food and beverage processing industry as well as robust export demand.

By Paula Mints, Founder and Chief Market Research Analyst, SPV Market Research

A superalloy is an alloy that, generally with iron, nickel, and cobalt as its base alloying element, can resist corrosion and oxidation at a high temperature of some 600 and can work for a long period of time under a certain stress. It is mainly applied in many fields such as aerospace engines, industrial gas turbines and auto turbochargers. And the superalloy used in aerospace engines occupied approximately 50% of the total engine weight.

Global and China Earphone Industry Report, 2013-2014 focuses on the following:

According to China Commercial Vehicle Industry Report, 2014-2017, sales volume of China's commercial vehicles is estimated to register a CAGR of 6% in 2014-2017, and will reach 5.12 million in 2017. The development of commercial vehicle industry is closely related to macro economy. In 2013, the growth rate of China's GDP fell to 7.7%, while commercial vehicle market experienced slow growth at the same time, with output and sales volume increasing by 7.6% and 6.4%, respectively.

With advancement of medical reform, improvement of spending power, and enhancement of health care consciousness, China's medical monitor industry is gradually expanding. During 2007-2013, the market size grew at a CAGR of 21.5%, to RMB4.69 billion in 2013. However, the medical monitor penetration in China was still at a relatively lower level, at 26.5% in 2013, far below the US level of 80%, reflecting great development potential. It is projected that by 2017 the market size of medical monitor industry in China will exceed RMB10 billion.

As industrialization and urbanization advances unceasingly in China, environmental issues are of the greatest concern to the public and environmental protection gradually turns into a national policy. Accordingly, environmental monitoring instrument as the basis of environmental protection has ushered in explosive development in recent years. Sales of environmental monitoring products in China surged from RMB1 billion in 2006 to RMB4.9 billion in 2013 at a CAGR of 25.5%, which indicates that China's environmental monitoring instrument industry enters a stage of rapid development.

Following the United States that enforced TPMS installation laws and regulations on September 1, 2007, the EU and South Korea have also introduced similar legislations to accelerate the development of TPMS market. In 2013, the global demand for TPMS reached 29.39 million sets, with the assembly rate of up to 33.67%. With the growing prevalence of TPMS products in the EU and other regions, the global TPMS demand will hit 54.77 million sets in 2017, with the average annual growth rate of 16.83% and the assembly rate of over 50%.

In 2013-2014, China education and training industry is characterized as follows:

Despite world-wide economic downturn and great changes in exchange rate, benefiting from robust market demand, global monoclonal antibody market size exceeded USD 80 billion in 2013, still one of biotech drugs with the fastest CAGR in recent years.