Clutch Market - Forecast(2023 - 2028)

Clutch Market size is forecast to reach $16.2 billion by 2026, after growing at a CAGR of 6.7% during 2021-2026. One of the most important factor contributing towards the rapid growth of the clutch market is the rising demand of electric and increasing advancement in the automotive industry. The steady shift from the manual transmission to semiautomatic and fully automatic transmission system in the advanced vehicles is contributing the growth of the clutch market. Moreover, the high demand of fuel efficient automotive systems has enhanced the demand of the advanced clutches Dual Clutch Transmission system, thereby contributing towards the growth of the clutch industry during forecast period.

The report: “Clutch Market – Forecast (2021-2026)”, by IndustryARC, covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Clutch Market. 

By Transmission Type: Manual Transmission, Automatic Transmission, Automated Manual Transmission, Continuously Variable Transmission.

By Clutch Size: Below 9 Inches Disc, 9 to 10 Inches Disc, 10 to 11 Inches Disc and 11 Inches and Above Disc.

By Vehicle Type: Passenger Vehicles, Light Commercial Vehicles and Heavy Commercial Vehicles.

By Geography : North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico), South America(Brazil, Argentina and others), Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Others), APAC(China, Japan India, SK, Aus and Others), and RoW (Middle East and Africa).

Automatic transmission systems is estimated to have the largest market share in the clutch market in the year 2020. The growth is majorly attributed to the high demand towards the advancement made in the automotive industry and increasing R&D activities in automation. Moreover, the growing demand of high-performance and easy transmission among the young bikers is enhancing the growth of the automatic transmission systems. In 2019, AVTEC Limited launched a new set of automatic transmission (HD transmission) that allows customized transmission solutions for the field application. The growing launch of advanced products is anticipated to raise the growth of the market during forecast period. 

North America dominated the Clutch market with a share of more than 42.78% which is followed by APAC. The predominance of the North America on the clutch market is majorly attributed to the growing demand of electric vehicles in regions such as United States and Canada. In the third quarter of 2019, the total number electric vehicles sold in Canada was 18,000 which was a rise of 16.6% since the third quarter of 2018, according to FleetCarma. The significant growth in sale of electric vehicles and growing deployment of clutches in the newly manufactured vehicle is anticipated to uplift the growth of the Clutch market in North America during forecast period.

The increasing awareness towards the environmental friendly vehicles has allowed heavy adoption of the Battery Electric vehicles in the developed parts of the world such as United States, Canada, Germany, U.K and other such areas. The heavy growth in the technological advancements in these regions. The increase in production of new vehicles has also increased the deployment of these clutches in these vehicles thereby driving the growth of the market. 

Governments across all nations are majorly focusing on boosting the fuel economy and creating awareness towards healthy environment in order to remove pollution across the globe. Strict government regulation coupled with high adoption of the environment friendly vehicles has increased the deployment of clutches in the new vehicles, thereby contributing towards the growth of the market.

One of the major factor hindering the growth of the Clutch market is the complex design and highly complex installation process. Moreover, once damaged and has to be replaced. Also the high complexity coupled with high installation cost of clutches is majorly hindering the growth of the market.

Technology launches, acquisitions and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the Clutch market. In 2018, the market of fuel additives has been consolidated by the top five players accounting for 46% of the share. Major players in the Clutch Market are Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd., Borgwarner Inc., Clutch Auto Limited, Eaton Corporation PLC, Exedy Corporation., F.C.C. Co., Ltd., among others.