Increasing demand for premium chocolates among developing economies is accelerating the global premium chocolate market (henceforth, referred to as the market studied), as consumers feel encouraged to purchase premium chocolates, which are perceived as less detrimental to health than sugar confectionery. This is providing a lucrative opportunity for the players to enter into the market studied.  Furthermore, the demand for limited edition chocolates plays an important role in the market studied. Various companies are launching a wide range of premium and luxury chocolate varieties during occasions, like Easter. Factors, such as shape and packaging of chocolates, are the key strategies adopted by companies to attain maximum sales during a festive season.

Consumers have become more concerned about the environment because of the various government awareness programs, thereby, forcing manufacturers to focus more on new eco-friendly technologies. As a result, formulation and manufacture of environmentally friendly products, like solvent-free adhesives, are growing in popularity. Given the rising environmental regulations regarding consumption and production of various adhesives, which are harmful to the environment, various companies are implementing recyclable and bio-based production methodologies as a part of their growth strategies, in order to sustain their positions in the hot-melt adhesives market. Biocompatible products are considered suitable for packaging applications, especially for the food packaging industry, because they are portrayed as being eco-friendly.

A polymer microsphere is a prominent ingredient delivery technology for many controlled drug delivery applications, due to its ability to encapsulate a variety of drugs, biocompatibility, and high bioavailability. These microspheres have a number of advantages over conventional drug delivery systems, which mainly includes an effective administration of therapeutic active molecules in a controlled and sustained manner to the target site with improved therapeutic effects. Basically, microspheres are classified into bio adhesive microspheres, magnetic microspheres, floating microspheres, radioactive microspheres and polymeric microspheres. The different types of polymeric microspheres can be employed as effective controlled release dosage forms. They represent great pharmaceutical applications in area of drug delivery technology with multidisciplinary advancements.

Plastics additives represent one of the most pervasive raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of various plastics. Growing demand for plastics, coupled with various specialty applications, is expected to further drive the additives demand over the forecast period. The upstream sector of the plastic industry provides raw materials for making plastic products. Crude oil is extracted from the ground, and goes through a distillation process in a naphtha cracker plant. This process refines feedstock or monomers in the form of petrochemicals. Around 2.4-4% of all distillation products in upstream production are further refined for producing monomers, to be used in all types of plastics and packaging.

Personal care is one of the major end users for surfactants. Surfactants are used as ingredients in a variety of products, such as foaming agents, dispersants, emulsifiers, solubilizing agents, cleansers, and conditioners, among others, in the personal care segment. The personal care industry accounted for a healthy share of the global market, in 2018. • Consumers are facing numerous skin- and hair-related problems, like eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, ichthyosis, dry hair, scalp diseases, grey hair, dandruff, and premature baldness, among others. This is likely to lead to a growth in demand for personal care products, and consequently to the growth of the surfactant market, across the region.

The global sweet biscuits market was valued at USD 80,447.86 million in 2018, and it is projected to reach USD 109,418.27 million by 2024, witnessing a CAGR of 5.35% during the forecast period, 2019-2024. The growing preference for convenient snacking, coupled with easier consumer accessibility through the advancing retail sector, is one of the few factors augmenting the growth of sweet biscuits market, globally. Moreover, the booming demand for healthy snacking has led many manufacturers to introduce health-efficient biscuits with fortified active ingredients, mainly protein, fibre, and vitamins. For instance, United Biscuits offers a range of fortified biscuits through its brand, McVities. In 2017, the brand launched McVitie’s Digestive Thins, with the innovation of digestive biscuits covered with milk chocolate.

Telecom service assurance (TSA) is the application of policies and processes by a Communications Service Provider (CSP) to ensure that the services offered over networks to consumers meet the required service quality level for an optimal subscriber experience. It is estimated that two-thirds of cellular subscribers may stop trying a newly introduced service after two failed attempts. Therefore, it is apparent that service assurance tools must be put in place before introducing a new service so that it can be successful in the market.

The advent of new technologies, with stringent environment norms, increasing health safety measures have changed the entire industry viewpoint, with respect to the compliance of standards and regulations. Testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) plays a significant role to ensure the infrastructure, services, products are met with the standards and regulations pertaining to safety and quality. With inspection and testing at regular intervals across a few industries, such as oil and gas becoming mandatory, the TIC services are expected to grow in demand, irrespective of the industrial seasonality.

Radar has long been utilized for military and non-military purposes, across a wide variety of applications, such as imaging, guidance, remote sensing, and global positioning. In 1950s, the side looking airborne radar (SLAR) was developed, which allowed for scanning by a fixed beam, pointed to the side, with the aircraft’s motion moving the beam across the land.

Titanium alloys exhibit a unique combination of mechanical and physical properties, which make them desirable for certain critical applications in the aerospace, chemical, medical, and energy industries.  Their high strength-to-density ratio gives them high structural efficiency. The high strength and low density of titanium (approx. 40% lower density than that of same strength steel) have led to its usage in the aerospace sector. For instance, it is used in landing gear of the Boeing 777, Boeing 787, and Airbus A380 aircraft. Titanium alloys have exceptional corrosion resistance and elevated temperature resistance, and are also biocompatible.