The usage of labels has increased manifold across many end-use sectors. Factors like technology and cost continue to drive changes in the labeling industry. Businesses have become aware of the potential for profit and the impact of consumer interaction on the success of a product. With numerous options in the marketplace, brand and label recognition is essential, especially to capture the customer’s attention.

Continuous monitoring of patients’ parameters such as heart rate and rhythm, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, electrocardiogram, blood pressure (BP), and many other parameters have increasingly become important for critically ill patients in healthcare settings. Patient monitoring systems are used to continuously monitor the patient’s vital signs. During treatment, it is highly important to monitor the vital physiological signs of patients continuously. Therefore, there is a high demand for patient monitoring devices in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The continuous improvement of technologies not only improved the access of medical personnel to patients’ vital signs but has also simplified the diagnostic process and, as a result, has risen the monitoring efficiency of patients.

A significant portion of testing, inspection, and certification work is outsourced. This is benefitting the independent TIC companies, primarily due to high growth rates and operating margins, and reliable revenue streams. TIC companies are leveraging technologies, such as Big Data and even drones (unmanned vehicles), in order to stay competent, while providing enhanced services to their customers. For instance, Bureau Veritas, in December 2018, collaborated with Delta Drones, in an effort to emerge as the leading TIC company, primarily to serve the agricultural sector in Africa. The partnership is aimed at developing solutions for precision agriculture, based on crop inspection, by drones. Bureau Veritas was also involved in a joint investment project (remote evaluation of coatings/corrosion on offshore machiner y and marine structures/ships (RECOMMS)), to develop drones that have the capability to inspect steel structures in enclosed spaces.

The industry for specialty food ingredients essentially thrives on the wider technological and functional benefits that these ingredients confer, in terms of high quality, safety, affordability, nutrition, and deliciousness of the processed food products. Processed food products include various categories, such as ready meals, baked foods, breakfast cereals, confectionery, and non-alcoholic beverages. Specialty food ingredients are a vital part of a wide range of processed foods, thereby, contributing to competitiveness in the food and beverage industry. The demand for convenient foods has recorded robust growth, owing to changing lifestyles and dietary preferences. Specialty ingredients, such as preservatives, emulsifiers, stabilizers, enzyme preparations, and others, enhance the nutritional profile of the packaged food and extend their shelf-life, thereby, pushing for higher demands of these specialty food ingredients.

Stage lighting is an illuminated stagecraft and requires many components. It is used in concerts, plays, operas, dance performances, theatre, and other performance art shows using a synchronized system of various lighting equipment to create a dazzling lighting display. The process involves manipulating the light intensity, color, distribution, direction and motion. These qualities are in nature manageable controllable and are also known as stage lighting variables, since they can be used in different combinations to alter the result.

The bonding characteristic of adhesives can used to bind or affix different parts of medical devices such as bandage to human body, syringes, dialysis filters, blood bags and few others. In addition to their mechanical bond strength of medical devices, rapid curing of adhesives is used to allow high volume production of these devices. The rising market for medical sector is expected to remain a driving factor in the coming years. Further, the demand for healthcare industry is growing, owing to the rising income level, growing health awareness, increased precedence of lifestyle diseases and improved access to insurance. For instance, the hospital industry in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 16-17% to reach INR 8.6 Trillion by the year 2022, as compared to INR 4 trillion in 2017. Various lifestyle diseases and increasing health awareness would be the major contributors to the growth.

Discrete semiconductor market is driven by the increasing need to manage power across electronics, and miniaturization. The reduction in package size is inversely proportional to power dissipation. For instance, NXP semiconductors achieved 55% reduction in packaging size for its transistors range, by retaining the same power performance. Additi onally, Diodes Incorporated launched 40V- rated DMTH4008LFDFWQ and 60V-rated DMTH6016LFDFWQ automotive-compliant MOSFETs packaged in DFN2020. Moreover, characteristics, like safety, infotainment, navigation, and fuel efficiency in the automotive components, and security, automation, solid-state lighting, transportation, and energy management in industrial components, are expected to fuel the market studied. One of the significant trends in discrete semiconductors is efficient power management. New system architectures are improving the efficiency of AC-DC power adapters, while simultaneously reducing the size and component count. New standards for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) allow higher power transfer, which enables the development of new classes of devices, like connected lighting.

The market for compound feed is growing due to the increasing demand for dairy products, growing inclination toward animal-based food, and increase in feed demand around the world. Compound feed maintains the health of animals and, thus, helps increase the quality of end products, such as eggs, milk, meat, and fish. Cattles are one of the major consumers of compound feed, with a prominent share, due to high demand for beef around the world, followed by the poultry segment. Poultry and ruminants are expected to grow at a higher rate, due to the changing dynamics of industrialization in the meat industry. An increase in demand for fish protein is expected to lead the fish feed to grow at the fastest rate, during the forecast period. Europe dominates the market with a major share. The recent ban of antibiotics and increasing per capita meat consumption in potential regions of Europe are the main factors driving the market growth in Europe. Most of the farmers in Spain are focusing on boosting the immunity of livestock, which, in turn, may boost the compound feed market.

The global controlled release fertilizers market was valued at USD 3,328.4 million in 2018 and it is expected to reach USD 5137.4 million by 2024 at an expected CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period. Rise in the demand for food and crops along with reducing per capita share of fertile land across the world will increase the demand for various controlled release fertilizers in upcoming years. Sharp rise in the population has been observed since the last few years. The high population growth coupled with a rapid pace of urbanization has significantly decreased the share of agricultural land per person. According to a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), per capita availability of arable land in the world dropped to around 0.2 hectare. There is a constant need to boost the agricultural productivity across the globe and this will gradually shift focus towards good quality-controlled release fertilizers. Depleting soil quality, increased application of the growth of turf grass, low nitrogen leaching property, less leaching facility, etc. are the prime drivers of the controlled release fertilizer market. High cost of controlled release fertilizers, lack of awareness among the market and fixed rate of nutrient release are some of the market restrainers.

In asymmetric warfare, the opposing sides have unequal military resources. Generally, in these types of warfare, the weaker opponent uses unconventional methods and tactics, to exploit the vulnerabilities of the enemy. The use of remote weapon stations is one such tactic, where the operator firing the weapon is in a safe area, away from the weapon. Remote weapons allocate risk asymmetrically, allowing those who use these weapons to minimize their exposure to risk, while their opponents can be easily attacked. The growth in insurgent groups, with better awareness of the local battlefields, has necessitated the demand for methods and techniques for mitigating these threats, especially in counterinsurgency operations. Non-state actors have started employing the techniques and tactics of asymmetric warfare, and conventional forces require new capabilities to become successful in modern combat situations and post-conflict scenarios. In this regard, the use of remote weapon systems is becoming widespread in several anti-terrorist and counter- insurgency operations.