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The World Filters Report, by the Freedonia Group, says that this growth will be driven by a pickup in world economic and personal income growth, increased building construction activity, manufacturing output, motor vehicle use and water consumption, and stricter environmental and product purity laws and regulations.
The report also suggests that sales gains in development parts of the world, including Asia/Pacific, Africa /Mideast, Eastern Europe and Latin America regions will outpace product demand in the USA, Western Europe and Japan, while those last three locations will remain the most intensive users of filtration products, accounting for threefifths of global demand in 2009. China will record the largest increases of any national market as the country continues to develop as an economic power and seek solutions to its air and water pollution problems.
The Freedonia report also suggests that air purification filers will register the strongest sales gains to 2009. Demand, the report says, will be spurred by rising manufacturing and mining activity, a worldwide trend towards urbanisation, and the construction of additional environmentally-suitable power generation and waste incineration facilities.
However, the report suggests, sales of fluid filters will climb at an above-average rate as well, fueled by an acceleration in non-agricultural water withdrawals as global economic
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