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NanoMarkets Sees Disposable Electronics at $26.2B by 2015
December 11, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
GLEN ALLEN, Va. NanoMarkets LLC expects the disposable electronics market paper substrates, printed RFID tags, organic embedded devices to grow to a $26.2 billion market by 2015. The analyst firm published its projections broken out by applications and device type, as well as corporate profiles of market leaders, in "Disposable Electronics: The First Wave for Printed and Organic Electronics."
Emerging manufacturing technologies, such as functional printing, and materials, like organic semiconductors, are enabling adopters to embed higher-functioning electronic devices in packaging, credit cards, labels, toys, and low-end medical products, according to NanoMarkets.
Printed RFID tags, which are low-cost and generally measured in billions of units per opportunity, will generate $12.4 billion in revenues by 2015, the researchers claim. This technology will become a replacement for barcodes in some applications.
E-paper technology will replace paper in situations focused on updates, such as price labels and product freshness markings. NanoMarkets forecasts $1.6 billion in e-paper displays for point-of-purchase applications by 2015.
With a range of applications smart cards, security, pharmaceutical packaging, card games, toys organic transistor and memory devices will enable new products while generating more advanced products in established areas, like greeting cards. Games and low-end consumer products integrating organic or printed electronics will hit $1.2 billion in revenues by 2015.
Materials suppliers will provide more than $17.5 billion in products geared to the disposable electronics sector in 2015. Inexpensive conductive inks represent the major opportunity in this space. Substrates, including coated papers and cardboards that accept electronics, will also see rising demand, reaching $1.8 billion.
For more information, visit www.nanomarkets.net.