Nuclear Medicine Market and Radiopharmaceuticals

The report focuses on "Nuclear Medicine Market and  Radiopharmaceuticals [SPECT/PET Radioisotopes (Technetium, F-18)], [Beta/Alpha radiation therapy (I131, Y-90)], [Applications (Cancer/Oncology, Cardiac)] & Stable Isotopes (Deuterium, C-13) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2017"

The market of radiopharmaceuticals is dominated by diagnostic radioisotopes, comprising of SPECT and PET radioisotopes. The lion’s share of the SPECT market is taken up by Tc-99m, whereas the PET market is dominated by F-18FDG isotope. Furthermore, the PET market will witness a double digit growth during the forecast period. The therapeutic segment contributes only 10% to the global radiopharmaceuticals market and I-131 has been considered as the gold standard for various oncology treatments in a combined therapy. Global nuclear medicines market is majorly driven by the increasing adoption of PET and SPECT scanners, and rising awareness for radiopharmaceuticals, whereas short half life of isotopes and stringent regulations are the factors that are hindering the growth of radiopharmaceuticals worldwide.

Besides highly preferred isotopes such as Tc-99m and F-18, significant growth is witnessed for Tl-201 and Rb-82 in diagnostic market and Y-90 and Lu-177 in beta therapy radioisotopes market. Exhaustive pipeline analysis reveals that coronary heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and bone metastasis will drive the diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals market, whereas lymphoma, prostate cancer, bone metastasis, and hepatocellular carcinoma will boost the future of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Besides new applications, the potential molecules that are expected to drive the market include Alpharadin (Ra-223), Ga-68, F-18 florbetapir, and F-18 choline. Though Ra-223 application is still under clinical trial, the market is highly optimistic regarding its clinical efficiency in prostate cancer, and bone metastasis.

North America held the largest share in the global radiopharmaceuticals market. The U.S. market is highly supported by the Mo-99 production of NRU reactor (Canada) and ongoing researches in different clinical institutes such as National Cancer Institute, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and so on. Besides developed markets, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to show a remarkable growth in the coming years. China, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and South Africa are expected to show a high growth potential amongst the emerging geographies. These countries are influenced by the domestic production of isotopes by reactors and government initiatives.

Apart from upcoming isotopes and their applications, understanding of the interlinked supply chain was imperative for market estimation. Value chain analysis and pipeline analysis have taken care of such business issues to come up with a consolidated market analysis, including the present and future impact of different factors. Demand and supply analysis identifies the potential risk of the interrupted supply of Mo-99 for the Tc-99m production, due to scheduled shutdown of major reactors and the benchmarking trend adopted by leading players to combat such operational difficulties.

The radiopharmaceutical market has been analyzed from both the radiopharmaceuticals processors’ and generator manufacturer’s perspectives. It has been identified that shifting from HEU to LEU is the major strategy in the processors market, while strengthening the supply chain of radiopharmaceuticals is the prime concern for the generator manufacturers.

In addition to the market size and forecast for radioisotopes, the report also covers competitive landscape and key developments of major players, pipeline analysis, investment opportunities, and regulatory affairs for established players as well as new entrants.

Winning and Retaining Business in the Australian Mining Equipment Sector

Synopsis
The survey primarily assessed heavy mobile equipment, however respondents were also asked about their practices and preferences in areas such as mining software, technology, and maintenance.
Areas of analysis include:
Customer priorities when buying mining equipment, with ratings of the importance of 16 separate factors for customers when choosing mining equipment, including cost factors, supplier attributes and product attributes.
Ratings of existing suppliers across the same factors, identifying best-performing suppliers and how well suppliers performed versus the importance of each factor.
In-depth analysis of the major suppliers, namely Caterpillar, Joy Global, Komatsu and Volvo, including their overall performance ratings and their ratings for each of the factors relative to its importance.
Rankings of the leading suppliers for each equipment type, with respondents indicating who they viewed as the top suppliers in Australia for trucks, excavators, loaders, shovels, dozers, drills, continuous miners, longwall systems, engines, tyres, pumps and mining software.
Insight into the likelihood of switching supplier and key action points for suppliers for product and service improvements required.

Summary
Overall trends in the data revealed:
- Customer priorities in supplier selection are product quality and availability of parts
- Suppliers perform well, but customer satisfaction is frequently lowest in the most important areas for customers
- Volvo and Komatsu received the highest average satisfaction ratings, with Caterpillar considered the leading supplier for most categories of mining equipment
- Account managers make a significant impact in the selection process
- Although loyal to their suppliers, customers look for improvement in parts availability and product quality

Scope
Winning and Retaining Business in the Australian Mining Equipment Sector, 2014 published by Timetric Mining Intelligence Centre, provides readers with a detailed analysis of customer preferences in the Australian mining sector. The analysis is based upon Timetrics survey of 110 mine managers, procurement managers and other key decision-makers

Reasons To Buy
Identify key areas for differentiation by understanding what factors most influence choice of supplier.
Target product and service improvement areas based on where mining equipment suppliers are currently underperforming relative to customer expectations.
Develop successful sales and marketing strategies through an understanding of the leading competitors and their strengths and weaknesses.

Key Highlights
When choosing an equipment supplier, respondents rate Production reliability and quality and the Availability of replacement parts as most important. However, over half of respondents feel that suppliers need to improve in the latter.
Overall the major suppliers perform well in terms of customer satisfaction, however, their weakest ratings were given for two of the three most important factors for respondents.
Account managers make a significant impact in the selection process with 77% of respondents citing Better understanding of your needs and 81% indicating Better ability to build a long-term relationship as differentiating factors when choosing their current main supplier.
There was a greater likelihood for respondents to switch supplier where satisfaction was low. While on average 7% plan to switch supplier within the next five years, this percentage is much higher for respondents whose satisfaction scores were below average.
Although most are loyal to their suppliers, customers are specifically looking for improvements in parts availability, product quality and the ability to support cost reductions.

Wearable Technologies in Clothing

The convergence of digital technology and apparel represents a huge opportunity as the telecom, electronics, clothing, and accessories industries cooperate to bring wearable technology to the consumer in a very personal way. While some wearable technology examples represent trendy fashion statements, others bring more than form as high function becomes a reality, particularly in the health and fitness sub-segment.

We see certain wearable technologies in clothing as fully integrated, stand-alone offerings while others are enablers of others such as sensors. Wearable sensors must be flexible, durable, multifunctional and washable to be used in clothing. Most wearable sensors made of pouring a liquid polymer insulator over nanowires attached to a silicon plate. Sensors get integrated into clothing or can be in direct contact with the human skin.

This research evaluates wearable technology in clothing including current offerings, anticipated future solutions, and the overall industry outlook. The report also provides forecasting for 2015 to 2020.

Target Audience:

Telecom companies

Semiconductor companies

Health and fitness industry

Clothing and accessory industry

Wearable technology companies

Market Focus: Trends and Developments in the Dairy Food Sector in Turkey

The "Market Focus: Trends and Developments in the Dairy Food Sector in Turkey" report brings together consumer insight and market data to provide a comprehensive brief of the Turkish Dairy Food sector. This allows for the rapid identification of key growth opportunities across major Dairy Food categories and their packaging.

Key Findings
 - Availability of low fat and healthy Dairy product choices is facilitating the growth of Dairy sector in Turkey
 - The food Retail market in Turkey is dominated largely by domestic retail chains. BIM is the biggest domestic supermarket chain in Turkey with 4000 stores across the country. The market share of traditional grocery stores is eroding as consumers move towards modern retail chains
 - The Dairy market in Turkey is also witnessing an increase in sales of Functional Dairy products, which are targeted at specific health concerns
 - Turkey has a large population of children who like to consume flavored Yogurt and Puddings/Desserts
 - Consumers are looking out for value for money brands due to increasing food inflation
 
Synopsis

Consumers in Turkey prefer traditional Turkish cuisine in which Dairy products play a very significant role. Yogurt is the most popular Dairy product in Turkey, leading in market share by value. Turkey has a growing market for natural and healthy Dairy products with the large young Turkish population driving this growth.

Reasons to buy
This report brings together consumer insight and market data to provide a comprehensive brief of the Turkish Dairy Food sector. This allows for the rapid identification of key growth opportunities across major Dairy food categories and their packaging.
 

Cell-based Assays Market

The market for cell-based assays is driven by the preference over biochemical assays and animal models and the emergent 3D cell-based assay techniques in cell-based assays.

There has been a substantial rise in the costs to develop a new drug in recent years. This is specially observed when a new compound enters animal testing. The use of animals in experimentation is becoming dearer, due to limitations such as high costs involved in breeding and acquisition of animals, due to the complexity of procedures involved in the in vivo testing, and several other ethical issues and legal issues associated with it. Moreover the traditional biochemical assays also posses many limitations. To counteract these issues there has been a paradigm shift towards the use of cell-based assays.

The consumables formed the largest product segment of the total cell-based assays market in 2013, which includes assay kits and reagents, microplates and cell lines. The largest contribution of consumables was attributed to the large volume market of reagents and assay kits; where most of the innovation is taking place. Drug discovery was the most prominent application of cell-based assays. Within drug discovery, lead identification and optimization accounted for the largest share in 2013. With respect to end users, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies commanded the largest share in 2013. These industries are focusing on screening extensive libraries of compounds that could become leads for potential drug candidates. The screening process has helped the pharmaceutical companies to run more cost and time efficient methods.

For accurate results, the low cost label-free technology in cell based assays has emerged as a momentous technology that has been driving the growth of cell-based assay market. With the advancement in the cell stem cell culture, induced pluripotent stem cells will be emerging in near future. With the increasing demand of emergent 3D cell-based assay, it is estimated to be the fastest growing technology in the next five years.

North America accounted for the largest share of the global cell-based assay market in 2013. The presence of a large number of market players along with government funding for drug discovery and increasing number of public-private partnerships are the factors driving the North American cell-based assay market. Countries such as India and China serve as new revenue pockets for the cell-based assay market. Healthcare reforms, government initiatives, growing awareness and increasing investments in drug discovery are encouraging the rising acceptance and adoption of the cell-based assay technology in these regions. The emerging countries in Asia such as China and India will register high growth in the coming years; this can be attributed to the low development costs offered by these nations. Moreover, clinical research organizations are growing at fastest rate and more inclined to set their pace in these nations.

The Global Maritime and Border Security Market

Summary

The Global Maritime and Border Security Market 2014-2024 Report published by Strategic Defence Intelligence, provides readers with a detailed analysis of both historic and forecast global industry values, factors influencing demand, the challenges faced by industry participants, analysis of industry leading companies, and key news.

Key Findings

The global maritime and border security market is expected to experience a CAGR growth of 6.82% during 2014-2024

Asia Pacific, followed by North America, are expected to be the largest maritime and border security markets with a cumulative market share of more than 66%

The maritime surveillance and detection segment is expected to dominate the maritime and border security market with a share of 45.6%

An increasing threat of cross border terrorism, maritime crimes, illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and border disputes are anticipated to encourage sustained investment in the maritime and border security domain.

Synopsis

This report offers detailed analysis of the global maritime and border securitymarket with market size forecasts covering the next ten years. This report will also analyze factors that influence demand for maritime and border security activities, key market trends, and challenges faced by industry participants. In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:

Globalmaritime and border securitymarket size and drivers: detailed analysis of the maritime and border securitymarket during 20142024, including highlights of the demand drivers and growth stimulators formaritime and border security. It also provides a snapshot of the spending and modernization patterns of different regions around the world

Recent developments and industry challenges: insights into technological developments in the maritime and border security market and a detailed analysis of the changing preferences of maritime and border security departments around the world. It also provides trends of the changing industry structure and the challenges faced by the industry participants

SWOT analysis of the maritime and border securitymarket: analysis of the industry characteristics by determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the maritime and border securityindustry

Global maritime and border security country analysis: analysis of the key markets in each region, providing an analysis of the key segments of the maritime and border securityindustry expected to be in demand in each region

Major programs: details of the key programs in each segment, which are expected to be executed during the forecast period

Competitive landscape and strategic insights: analysis of the competitive landscape of the global maritime and border security. It provides an overview of key players, together with insights such as key alliances, strategic initiatives, and a brief financial analysis.

Reasons To Buy

This report will give the user confidence to makethe correct business decisions based on a detailed analysis of themaritime and border securitymarket, and to identify emerging and declining markets over the next ten years.

This report will give the user a thorough fact based analysis, with information about the demand for various maritime and border securitysegments in each of the top ten countries, and the underlying factors that are driving demand.

The analysts have placed a significant emphasis on the major industries that are driving the maritime and border security market which will provide the user with a clear picture about future opportunities that can be tapped, resulting in revenue expansion. For example, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is anticipated to procure a number of military grade equipment (airborne radars, unmanned aerial vehicles) in order to equip its border patrol and maritime security departments.

The major programs section will inform the user about programs being undertaken by maritime and border security departments in different segments of the maritime and border securitymarket during the forecast period.

Detailed profiles of the top maritime and border securitymanufacturers and service providers around the world with information about their products, alliances, recent contract wins, and financial analysis wherever available. This will provide the user with a total competitive landscape of the sector.

A deep qualitative analysis of the global maritime and border securitysector covering sections including demand drivers, SWOT, industry trends, latest technological developments, among others.

Life Insurance Investments in the US

Synopsis

""Life Insurance Investments in the US to 2017: Market Databook"" contains detailed historic and forecast data investments in the life insurance industry in the US . This databook provides data on government securities, corporate bonds, investment funds, cash in bank/hand, other investments and total investment income.


Summary

 This report is the result of Timetrics extensive market research covering the life insurance industry in the US . It contains detailed historic and forecast data for investments. ""Life Insurance Investments in the US to 2017: Market Databook"" provides detailed insight into the operating environment of the life insurance industry in the US . It is an essential tool for companies active across the United States life insurance value chain and for new players considering to enter the market.

 Scope

 Historic and forecast data for investments in the life insurance industry in the US for the period 2008 through to 2017.
 Historic and forecast data on government securities, corporate bonds, investment funds, cash in bank/hand, other investments and total investment income. for the period 2008 through to 2017.

 Reasons To Buy

 This report provides you with valuable data for the life insurance industry covering investments in the US .
 This report provides you with a breakdown of market data including data on government securities, corporate bonds, investment funds, cash in bank/hand, other investments and total investment income.
 This report allows you to plan future business decisions using the forecast figures given for the market.