The market dynamics section of the report examines the diverse factors which govern the demand and supply of products in the food safety testing systems & services market. This analysis will provide an in-depth understanding of the direction in which the market has headed and the impact of various factors on the same. This section covers the market dynamics – namely the drivers, restraints, and the opportunities in the food safety testing market, listing and analyzing several factors that positively and negatively affect the market.

The market dynamics section of the report examines the diverse factors which govern the demand and supply of products in the food safety testing systems & services market. This analysis will provide an in-depth understanding of the direction in which the market has headed and the impact of various factors on the same. This section covers the market dynamics – namely the drivers, restraints, and the opportunities in the food safety testing market, listing and analyzing several factors that positively and negatively affect the market.

A wheelchair lift is a powered device - electric or hydraulic – that is used to raise a wheelchair with or without its occupant to overcome a vertical barrier. Depending upon on the end-user, a wheelchair lift can be categorized into two categories: Building wheelchair lift and vehicle wheelchair lift. The building wheelchair lift is installed at homes and commercial places for easy mobility of persons with disabilities, and it acts as an alternative to stairlifts. A vehicle wheelchair lift, on the other hand, is installed in public vehicles or private wheelchair accessible vans (WAVs) to increase accessibility of disabled people.

What began as a medium of presentation has morphed into a platform for responsive marketing, interaction, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between businesses and consumers. Exhibitions have come full-circle as a marketing tool, playing a pivotal role in showcasing skills and works of art, demonstrating products, driving innovations, fine-tuning strategy, and gathering data.

China is the largest cement producer in the world, accounting for 58.5% of global output in 2017, according to estimates from the National Minerals Information Center of the US Geological Survey (USGS). The cement sector in China is characterised by overcapacity, a large number of enterprises and fierce competition. The sector is undergoing a process of consolidation, with an increasing number of M&As between local enterprises. In the last few years, cement manufacturing in China has experienced a huge transformation, moving towards advanced cement production by replacing outdated shaft kilns with the efficient new suspension preheater (NSP) kilns. The number of NSP clinker production lines in China increased from 792 in 2007 to 1,715 at end-2017. At present, over 95% of the kilns used in China are NSP kilns.

Chile is not a particularly large pharma and healthcare market in Latin America, as it has a comparatively small and healthy population in terms of incidence of communicable diseases. However, the changing epidemiological profile and the rapidly ageing population are allowing the sector to grow at a faster pace than the regional average. The main drug segment in terms of value is that of patented drugs, although generic drugs enjoy the largest growth opportunities. Over 2012-2017, total health expenditure rose at a CAGR of 11.6%, driven by a solid increase of government spending on healthcare. In 2017, Chile allocated 8.1% of its GDP on healthcare, a figure that will continue to grow in the short term. The country continues to rely on imports to meet its domestic demand for drugs. In 2012-2017, trade deficit in pharmaceuticals followed a steady upward trend to reach USD 1.2bn in 2017.

The extraction of oil and gas is one of Argentina’s main economic sectors, accounting for 2.7% of GDP and 1% of exports in 2017, as well as 1% of total employment at the end of that year. Oil and natural gas are the main sources of energy in the country, with a combined share of 84% in domestic energy matrix since 2016. However, since 2011 the country has been continually moving further and further away from energy self-sufficiency due to a prolonged period of declining output, caused by a sustained fall in investments and political and economic uncertainty. Nevertheless, Argentina has significant growth opportunities in terms of unconventional resources, holding the world’s fourth largest shale-oil and second-largest shale-gas reserves, according to the latest available estimates, which were released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2016.

Over the 2014-2016 period, the automotive industry of Argentina experienced a sharp drop in production and sales, after a robust expansion between 2003 and 2013. Several factors contributed to this downward trend: the contraction of the domestic economy; a severe decline in demand for vehicles in Brazil – Argentina’s main trading partner, combined with Brazil’s high share in the country’s vehicle exports; and the fact that a heavy tax burden and relatively high production costs makes the Argentine automotive industry uncompetitive internationally. However, economic recovery in 2017, coupled with improved business confidence stemming from the liberalisation measures of President Macri’s administration, has encouraged foreign companies to announce several investment projects to increase domestic production capacity, mainly for light commercial vehicles (LCVs).

Argentina is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of cereals and oilseeds and it is also among the ten biggest beef and poultry meat producers on a global scale. The agriculture sector has a key socio-economic role for Argentina, accounting for 5.6% of the GDP, 5.4% of the formal employment and 29.3% of the national exports in 2017. Yet, during the year the sector’s exports fell by 0.8% y/y, due to lower external sales of oilseeds. The removal of export tariffs and quotas on key agricultural products in 2015 triggered a much needed restructuring process in the crop industry towards production of cereals at the expense of soybean. Despite the negative short-term effect on exports, this process will support the product diversification of the crop industry and reduce the high dependence of the country on soybean exports.