Ceramic Textile Market - Forecast(2023 - 2028)

The Ceramic Textile Market size is forecast to reach around $200 million by 2025, after growing at a CAGR of 8% during 2020-2025. The demand for Ceramic Textile is growing due to its superior mechanical properties that meet today’s most demanding thermal, mechanical, and electrical performance requirements across various applications. The ceramic offers various benefits such as reduced optical loss, better durability, and improved reliability, that makes it as an useful product across defense, automotive, and electric and electronics sectors. Besides, the growing investment by the aerospace sector for the development of advanced materials and equipment’s and associated technologies as a flame and impact shielding for aircraft and spacecraft ballistic further propels the growth of Ceramic Textile Market size during the forecast period. 

The report: “Ceramic Textile Market – Forecast (2020-2025)”, by IndustryARC, covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Global Ceramic Textile Industry.

By Fiber Type: Polycrystalline, Alkaline Earth Silicate Fiber, Refractory Ceramic Fiber, and Others

By Form: Yarn, Cloth, Tape, Sleeving, Braids, and Others

By Process: Pressing, Extrusion, Injection Molding, and Others

By End-Use: Industrial (Petrochemicals, Power Generation, Foundries, and Others), Transportation (Aerospace (Aircraft, Defense, and Spacecraft), Automotive, Railways, and Marine), Healthcare, and Others

By Geography: North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and RoW

The Refractory Ceramic Fiber segment holds the largest share of more than 35% in the Ceramic Textile Market in 2019 due to widely used in the various application include electronics, energy, aerospace, and defense. Furthermore, due to high electrical resistance, high mechanical and dielectric strength, and lightweight makes Refractory Ceramic Fiber the most widely used material in steel production and other metal processing applications. 

The cloth segment holds the largest share of more than 25% in the Ceramic Textile Market in 2019. The better insulation, good performance at low temperatures, and heat insulation characteristics makes it the most suitable used material in welding foundry works, aluminum and steel mills, boiler insulation and seal, refineries, and chemical plants.

The pressing segment is projected to witness a highest CAGR of around 9% in the Ceramic Textile Market during the forecast period due to its readily conversion process of metal oxides into textiles which meet demanding performance requirements in high temperature operating environments. Furthermore, growing uses of pressing process for making fabrics, tapes, sleeving, and yarn products is driving the growth of this segment. Furthermore, due to high electrical resistance, high mechanical and dielectric strength, and high ultraviolet and infrared optical characteristics makes make sapphire the most widely used material in cutting tools and lasers applications

The industry segment held the largest share of more than 40% in the Ceramic Textile Market in 2019. This is attributed to the growing due to the growing petrochemical, steel, and aluminum end-use industries in the global market. Additionally, growing demand for end products from industries such as iron & steel, aluminum, petrochemicals, and others are likely to drive the growth of this market during the forecast period.

Among the regions, the APAC holds the largest share of more than 35% in the Ceramic Textile Market in 2019 followed by North America and Europe. The growing demand from electronics and aviation industries across China and India is fueling the growth of this market in the APAC region. In electrical and electronic industry, the ceramics textiles are used to fabricate electrical and electronic components such as insulators, igniters, and heating elements. Furthermore, the growing consumer and e-commerce sectors is also contributing for the growth of Ceramic Textile Market share across the APAC region. Furthermore, growing transportation sector, changing lifestyle, and rise in disposables income also contribute to the growth of this market in APAC region.

The Ceramic Textile offer good chemical resistance, low thermal conductivity, thermal shock resistance, low porosity, and unique electrical properties that makes it extensively useful for various end-use industry such as petrochemical and ceramic industry. Moreover, the growing uses of fabrics, tapes, and sleeving in the aerospace, industrial, automotive, electrical, and petrochemical markets as heat shields, curtains, linings, insulation, and blankets further drives the growth of this market. Furthermore, the growth in the medical sector is also contributing to the growth of the Ceramic Textile Market during the forecast period. 

Ceramic textile is a key component in the development of strong, lightweight space debris shields for use on the Space Station Laboratory Habitation and other unmanned missions. The lightweight and durable fabric property of ceramic textile allow design engineers to meet or exceed their specifications. Furthermore, the growing uses of ceramic textiles across various space application as a micrometeorite shield, whipple shield, door seals, gaskets, shuttle tiles, booster access doors, and exit cone drives the growth of this market. For instance, the shield, produced at NASA Marshall Space Center in Huntsville and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, contains Ceramic Fabrics made by 3M. Furthermore, NASA used Nextel ceramic in space shuttle development for shuttle tiles which can stand up to the heat of reentry. Later, the fibers were used to fill gaps between orbital tiles and are woven into insulation blankets, heat shield and other protective gears. Besides, the ceramic textile widely popular among NASCAR drivers and racing cars. The thermal and wear resistance property make the usage of ceramic textile popular in race cars. The thermal resistance property keeps NASCOM drivers cool inside the car cockpit where temperature can attain a peak point during the race which is hot enough to melt the shoes of driver. By leveraging ceramic in race cars can reduce the weight of the vehicle and can provide precision steering and handling of the car. 

The selection of a proper material composition is one of the most challenging factors to destroy the optical uniformity of ceramic body and cause the scattering of light. Furthermore, the presence of lack of skilled labor and training centers are also hampering the market growth. However, if there is a greater difference in material composition, then there should be a greater difference in refractive index that leads to lower the light transmittance of the whole ceramic. Hence, the highly skilled operator is required to select a proper material composition in order to maintain the quality of the end product like the crystal boundary region of Ceramic Textile should be thin, better light matching, no porosity and inclusion, and dislocation. However, the availability of glass fabrics as an alternative material acts as a restraining factor for the growth of Ceramic Textile market. 

Technology launches, acquisitions and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the Ceramic Textile market report. In 2019, the market of Ceramic Textile top 10 companies accounting for xx% of the share. Major players in the Ceramic Textile industry outlook are Mineral Seal Corporation, Morgan Advanced Materials Corporation, Rath Inc., Rauschert Steinbach GmbH, Ibiden Co. Ltd., Luyang Energy-Saving Materials Co., Ltd., Isolite Insulating Products Co., Ltd., Kyocera Corporation, 3M, Textum Weaving Inc., Unifrax Corporation, and Zircar Zirconia, Inc., among others.