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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Medical Imaging Equipment Market (X-ray, Ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Imaging Equipment) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019," in 2012, the global medical imaging equipment market was valued at USD 24.39 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.4% during the forecast period of 2013 to 2019 to reach a market value of USD 35.35 billion by 2019.

There is a rising demand for low cost biological drugs. Commercial and regulatory developments are taking the follow-on biologics market to new heights. Drug manufacturers are exploring the possibilities of producing generic biopharmaceuticals drugs with a motive of reducing the prices of these life saving drugs. However, these possibilities are opposed by some scientific challenges and unanswered questions.

Pico Projectors, known as handheld projectors, are niche technology escorted with portable devices such as mobile phones, cameras, and tablets. These pico projectors provide a convenient way to quickly project the content of these devices onto any surface such as walls, notebooks, or airplane food trays, portable projection screens sized and designed for pico projectors and presenter mobility. A Pico projector uses a laser light sources or an LED which eliminates the need for lamp replacement over the functional life of a pico. The two most significant segments of these projectors include stand alone projectors and embedded projectors. The three major imager technologies for the pico projectors competing for market share include Digital Light Processing (DLP), Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS), and Laser-Beam-Steering (LBS). Some of the product types of pico projector comprise Ferroelectric LCoS (FLCoS), Syndiant’s Syl2041, DLP HVGA, Laser Beam Scanning (LBS), Color Filter LCOS (CF-LCoS).

Microencapsulation has been used across various industries since many years including agrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, paper industry and textiles. Microencapsulation is a process of coating small droplets or particles with a continuous film of polymeric material to produce small capsules known as microcapsules. There are many reasons behind encapsulation, some of them includes isolation from the surrounding, preventing evaporation of volatile substance, avoid unnecessary chemical attack on reactive materials and handling sticky material. In pharmaceutical industry, it has revolutionized the development of drug delivery by providing protection to encapsulated active ingredients against degradation and ensuring sustained release of drugs. Other advantages include masking the bitterness of certain drugs, targeted delivery to specific sites and ability to reduce adverse effects associated with some drugs. Most commonly used techniques for microencapsulation are chemical, physiochemical and electrostatic and mechanical processes. Chemical method involves in situ polymerization while physiochemical process includes separation based on coacervation phase, complex emulsion and dispersion. Pan coating, spray drying and bed granulator are the types of mechanical processes. Micro-K containing potassium chloride is encapsulated to enhance its release.

Polypropylene is a polymer obtained from propylene. The intrinsic properties of inertness towards acids or bases, high stiffness and excellent tensile strength has helped polypropylene become one of the most favored thermoplastics for manufacturing of appliances, consumer products, and industrial products. Injection molded applications are the largest consumers of PP and are followed by blow molded applications.

Orphan drugs are specific pharmaceutical agents which are developed for treatment of orphan or rare diseases. Orphan disease, according to laws of various countries, may include medical conditions which have low prevalence, i.e. affects less than 200,000 persons (U.S.), or 50,000 (Japan). Expiring patents of blockbuster drugs, drying pipelines, stringent regulations across the globe, has encouraged the pharmaceutical industries to shift the focus to a new business model that includes niche busters or orphan drugs.

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "SNP Genotyping and Analysis Market (GeneChips, Taqman Allelic Discrimination, Pyrosequencing, AB SNPlex, Sequenom MassARRAY MALDI-TOF): Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" the global SNP genotyping and analysis market was valued at USD 2,385.2 million in 2012 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.8% from 2013 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of USD 9,485.2 million by 2019.

The global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing (PCM) market is believed to hold huge opportunities in the future. With economic constraints in European countries, global pharma manufacturing companies are facing extensive cost containment pressures. As a result, pharmaceutical companies are compelled to explore ways to reduce the cost of drug manufacturing.

The tobacco is utilized in manufacturing of cigar, cigarettes, smoking and chewing tobacco. It is also used in manufacturing ‘snuff’ and ‘bidis’. The consumption of tobacco products augmented globally during the economic slowdown due to the foreclosures, downfall in the stock market and stress of layoffs that drove many people to seek relief through smoking. However, the economic recovery eased the stress and lessened the smoking undertaken for stress relief. Nonetheless, as per WHO (World Health Organization) the growth in smoking rates particularly in the emerging nations have exceeded the smoking rate declines in developed nations that can be credited to health conscious lifestyles, growing excise taxes and regulations. These factors are expected to drive the global tobacco products market. The growing awareness among the health conscious population and anti-tobacco drives held worldwide coupled with government supportive schemes are hindering the market growth

Specialty films are known to have high tensile strength and act as a protective shield owing to which it is utilized in various sectors. Growing importance of bio-based polymers, economic growth of BRIC countries are some of the factors that have been driving the market for specialty films. The specialty films market is primarily focused on materials such as polyesters, nylons, polyolefin-based films such as Ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) and polyvinylidene chloride (PVdC), polycarbonates, fluoropolymers and polyamides. Fluoropolymers, polyolefin-based films and nylons are the major product segments and are expected to account for a major chunk of the market for specialty films. Bio-based polymers are also expected to come into focus in the near future due to environmental concerns and clean energy.