This Frost & Sullivan research study aims to provide an overview of the global wearables market and the trends and implications for the chemicals and materials market. The research includes an industry overview, background, and impact factors. It also focuses on providing an insight into the opportunities for different types of materials including ...

Top industry drivers (e.g., regulations, specialty paints, packaging applications, vehicle coating), restraints (e.g., supply deficit/surplus, online publishing), regulatory (US and Europe) and technology trends (e.g., encapsulated pigments) affecting the global pigments market are discussed. The product segments include organic, inorganic, and met...

This weeks SPIE identifies the monetization complexities of multiple partner relationships that now characterize the everything connected business environment. The report explains how an ecosystem of partners can be remunerated for their machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) M2M has historically referred to the collection and rem...

This SPIE provides an introduction to age distribution analysis; and then applies this approach to predicting the evolution of the consumer communication services market—that is, voice, video, Internet access and wireless. Although the focus of this paper is communication services, the research approach is equally applicable to a wide range of ma...

In this SPIE, Stratecast examines several service characteristics that shape buyer perceptions of cloud infrastructure services, as revealed in the 2015 Stratecast Cloud User Survey. These include brand leverage, pricing strategies, service level agreements, interoperability positioning, and customer support. We also offer marketing recommendations...

Challenges to the predicted runaway success of IoT loom large. This is, in part, because IoT is still a relatively new phenomenon, and because not all businesses have “things” to manage. Stratecast, however, asserts that among those who do, there were three primary reasons for the sparsity of IoT-ready respondents: 1. The lack of a clear, comp...

The use of public cloud storage, fully or partially, in a business’s approach to file backup is possible without placing sensitive data at risk, and without weakening data reliability. In this SPIE, we describe solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Security First that serve this purpose.

08 Apr 2016  |  Africa

Construction and Mining Equipment Industry in Key African Countries, Forecast to 2022

Backhoe Loaders, Hydraulic Excavators, and Wheel Loaders Set to Win Big

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Africa has become an attractive destination for global construction and mining equipment manufacturers and holds tremendous growth potential. The unit shipment of construction and mining equipment has increased sixfold from 2003 to 2015. Rapid urbanisation and increased investment in infrastructure will accelerate demand for construction and mining...

Utilities in Southeast Asia continue to strengthen their power supply through large-scale power plants. However, the sheer magnitude of the demand-supply mismatch calls for an immediate solution. Utilities are, therefore, driven to look beyond the scope of their traditional business models, and are increasingly willing to shift toward adopting dist...