Drones have gained popularity among the companies and civilians over the years. The advantages of drones, like being compact and fast, avoidance of land traffic, etc., have made their use popular in many applications. Over the years, the usage of drones has penetrated into several applications in the commercial sector, such as aerial photography, express shipping and delivery, gathering information or supplying essentials for disaster management, geographical mapping of inaccessible terrain and locations, building safety inspections, precision crop monitoring, unmanned cargo transport, law enforcement and border control surveillance, storm tracking, and forecasting hurricanes and tornadoes. Logistics companies are about to scale up their businesses with drone delivery services after obtaining the regulatory certifications. For instance, in October 2019, United Parcel Service (UPS) subsidiary, UPS Flight Forward, won federal approval to expand its drone delivery operations, allowing the company to use multiple aircraft in multiple locations to make revenue-generating deliveries over longer distances. In addition, many product delivery and courier service giants, like Amazon, Domino’s, Zomato, and DHL, are implementing the idea of delivery by drones.

Legacy contact centers operate on older technologies that cannot support newer channels, such as social media, mobile app chats, or videos. The cloud-based contact centers can aid companies in achieving these goals. Modern channels can be integrated by using communication application programming interfaces (APIs). Analytics-led insights can then be applied to deliver context-rich and personalized customer experiences. Moreover, as there is no centralized workplace, agents can operate remotely to offer round- the-clock customer care service. Cloud-based call centers are slowly substituting the on-premise call centers. According to the State of Customer Experience 2018, the migration of 39% contact centers in the United Kingdom to cloud with 57% of them chalking out an action plan to move to cloud-based call centers within the next three years, indicates the potential for the overall market. Furthermore, cloud-based infrastructure makes contact centers extremely scalable. They can be rapidly expanded to handle peaks during holiday seasons, which is considered as a crucial stage for a majority of retailers and scale back during other seasons. No additional investments are required toward infrastructure or management costs to manage the peak loads. This allows the companies to manage their budgets, technology usage, and employees, optimally.

As a solution to congestion in cities, CO2 reduction, and healthier lifestyles, the governments of European Union, as well as various individual developed countries, such as the United States, are encouraging the use of bicycles by providing purchase subsidies or tax breaks. Additionally, governments are making subsidy schemes available to improve cycling infrastructure and promote cycling as a sustainable mobility solution. According to the World Economic Forum, bikes in Copenhagen, Denmark, outnumbered cars by more than five times, in 2018. This popularity of cycling is due to the increasing government investment toward cycling infrastructure across the city. For instance, in 2017, there were new green cycling routes of about 600 km and 3,500 new cycle parking stands established in Copenhagen. Such infrastructure investments propel the growth of the market studied. The rapidly progressing infrastructure spending is also taking the form of establishing e-bike recharge stations and increasing bicycle parking and hiring stations, especially near metro stations to ease multimodal transportation.

In the current scenario, buyers consider the vehicle’s interior as an important feature while purchasing a car, truck, or an SUV. Upholstery is an integral part of the interior. As vehicle interior is becoming more elaborate, with contrasting surfaces and textures used to bring in the decorative and functional effect, automotive makers are considering new materials for the upholstery, with enhanced environmental performance. Fabric coatings, such as Scotchgard, also observed significant growth, as customers work to preserve the upscale interiors that they purchase. In general, the peripheral industries to the automotive upholstery industry are also experiencing steady growth. As upholstery continues to evolve and capture the attention of automotive buyers, the materials and tools used to maintain that upholstery naturally experience an increasing demand.  Woven fabrics are used in dashboards, sun visors, seats and interior walls, and represent the fastest growing fabric type in the automotive upholstery market. Woven fabrics often consist of nylon, polyester, wool, or polypropylene, which have excellent performance characteristics. These materials are resistant to ultraviolet radiation and have reduced flammability, making them ideal for extreme environments sometimes found within vehicle interiors.

The market studied is primarily dependent on the demand from the armed forces, law enforcement agencies (police), and potential private owners. Due to the ever-increasing need for national and regional security, countries, such as India, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States are anticipated to be the primary centers in the market studied. Growing military expenditure of these countries is expected to help in this regard, by giving freedom to the militaries for spending huge amounts for the procurement of these vehicles, in order to satisfy the increasing demand. Countries with vast land-based borders are emerging as lucrative markets for armored vehicles. The procurement of land-based vehicles has been increasing, particularly in Asia-Pacific and Europe, due to the growing political tensions between the neighboring countries and increasing hostile activities in the regions. In addition, these factors are increasing the need for incorporating the latest technologies into the land vehicles. This, in turn, is a major driver for upgrade and retrofit activities.

Data centers are mainly built in response to growing customer demand. However, the areas for the development and operation of data centers are identified based on factors such as power availability, fiber connectivity, and availability of skilled labor. Most of the modern data centers are built as per Tier III and Tier IV standards, thereby enabling high availability of service offerings. The Latin American market has grid power stability challenges. However, it supports free cooling, thereby reducing the power consumption by cooling systems. The major site selection criteria for data centers in Latin America are mentioned in the table below, along with the identified level of importance for each criterion and a description of the same.

Internet growth is a major factor that will drive the data center market in India during the forecast period. In India, the increasing smartphone penetration and deployment of 4G LTE technology is driving the number of internet users in the country. With the rollout of 5G networks, the connectivity and fixed broadband connectivity will improve significantly over the next few years. The average fixed broadband internet speed has also grown significantly in the past decade, leading to higher internet penetration in the country. By the end of 2019, there were around 510 million internet users in India and around 450 million smartphone users. According to Cisco, smartphone users will reach over 800 million by 2022.

Internet penetration is among the strongest drivers for data center growth in the APAC region. Also, the increasing social media usage among consumers and digital transformation by enterprises across industry verticals are major factors promoting data center growth. Mobile broadband networks have become the primary mode of internet access in most Asia Pacific nations, with more than a third of the region's population using mobile networks and devices. Data centers are built, operated, and maintained to process a vast amount of both customer and business data. The number of people accessing the internet has grown significantly in the past decade from about 1.77 billion in 2009 to 4.39 billion in 2019. The growth of internet users was driven by more affordable smartphones and mobile data plans. The amount of data generated has also grown by over 50 times because of the increasing use of desktop systems, smartphone penetration, social media, wearable devices, and connected devices.

The blow-molded plastics market is among the many technologies used in the production of plastic products. The other technologies used include compression- molded, extrusion molding, injection molding, and thermoforming. Blow-molded plastic containers are generally sold by vendors through their direct sales team and by through distributors who in turn have their own warehouses and sales personnel. Plastic products sold through distributors are generally made by generic molds while custom molds are used for clients who require specific design and shapes. Some clients also catered through proprietary molds.

In various developed regions across the world, the economic growth acceleration, coupled with fixed investments is expected to favorably influence the demand for the garment care industry. This can be attributed to the fact that the garment care vendors are increasing their output by using technologically advanced and sophisticated appliances as well as reducing the operating costs of the same. Most of the households in the developed economies (the US and Europe) are likely to witness higher spending in the garment care sector owing to the increased disposable incomes. The higher sales of these appliances are expected to be driven by the ongoing mechanization of various application segments in different developing regions of the world. Factors such as an increasing number of single homes, coupled with the capability of making discretionary purchases for consumer- based appliances in developed regions of Europe and North America, are expected to favorably impact the global garment steamer market.