Ceramic Textile Market

Ceramics Textile Market Size (2024-2029):

The Global Ceramics Textile Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.19% during the forecast period 2024-2029. The market value was at USD 117.48 million in 2023, and the value is expected to reach USD 222.01 million by the end of 2029.

Market Overview:

The demand for Ceramic Textiles is increasing because of their superior mechanical properties. The ceramic offers various benefits like reduced optical loss, better durability, and improved reliability, making it a useful product across the defence, automotive, electric, and electronics sectors. Besides the increased investment, the aerospace sector contributes to the development of advanced materials and equipment and associated technologies such as flame, and impact shielding for aircraft and spacecraft ballistic further propels the expansion of the Ceramic Textile market size during the forecast period.

Market Trends:

Ceramic cloth is touted to be a significant market because of the extraordinary properties demonstrated by the textile-like heat insulation and good performance at low temperatures. The market of ceramic textiles is dominated by industrial end-users, including petrochemicals, iron & steel, and other metals

Market Drivers:

Ceramic Textile offers low thermal conductivity, good chemical resistance, low porosity, thermal shock resistance, and unique electrical properties that offer extensive use for various end-use industries like the petrochemical and ceramic industries. Moreover, the growing uses of fabrics, tapes, and sleeving in the industrial, aerospace, electrical, automotive, and petrochemical markets, such as linings, heat shields, curtains, and blankets further boost the expansion of this market. Furthermore, the expansion within the medical sector is additionally contributing to the expansion of the global Ceramic Textile market during the forecast period.

Market Restraints:

The selection of correct material composition is one of the foremost challenging factors that destroy the optical uniformity of ceramic bodies and cause the scattering of light. Furthermore, the lack of skilled labour and training centres is also decreasing the market growth. However, if there's a greater difference in material composition, then there should be a greater difference in refractive index that results in lower light transmittance of the entire ceramic. Hence, the highly skilled operator is required to pick out the suitable material composition in order to keep up the standard of the end product, just like the crystal boundary region of Ceramic Textile should be better light matching, no porosity, and inclusion, thin. However, the availability of glass fabrics as an alternate material acts as a restraining factor for the expansion of the Ceramic Textile market.

Market Opportunities:

Ceramic textile is a major component in the development of lightweight space debris strong shields that are used in space station Laboratory Habitation and other unmanned missions. The lightweight and durable fabric properties of ceramic textiles allow design engineers to satisfy or exceed their specifications. Furthermore, the growing use of ceramic textiles across various space applications, such as Whipple shields, shuttle tiles, micrometeorite shields, door seals, gaskets, booster access doors, and exit cones drives the expansion of this market. For example, the shield, produced at NASA Marshall Space Centre in Huntsville and also the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, contains Ceramic Fabrics made by 3M. Later, the fibres were used to fill gaps between orbital tiles and were woven into insulation blankets, protective covering, and other protective gear. Besides, ceramic textiles are widely popular among racing cars and NASCAR. The thermal and wear resistance properties of ceramic textiles are used popularly in race cars. The property of thermal resistance keeps NASCOM drivers cool inside the car cockpit, where temperature can reach the maximum point during the race, which is hot enough to melt the shoes of the driver. Leveraging ceramic in race cars can reduce the burden of the vehicle and might provide precise steering and handling of the car.

CERAMICS TEXTILE MARKET REPORT COVERAGE:

Market Segmentation:

Ceramics Textile Market - By Fibre Type:

• RCF
• Low Bio-Persistent 
• Polycrystalline

Refractory ceramic fibre (RCF) is the biggest segment of the ceramic textile market. RCF could be a versatile material. RCF is utilized as an air-laid into a blanket, converted into papers, die-cut into gaskets, folded into modules, spun or blown into bulk, shapes, boards, twisted into yarns, and blended into liquid binders for cement. It's lightweight and has low thermal conductivities, excellent resistance to thermal shock, outstanding electrical resistivity, excellent insulating properties, superior corrosion resistance, and good acoustical properties.

Ceramics Textile Market - By Form:

• Cloth 
• Ropes 
• Tapes
• Sleeving
• Braids

Ceramic cloth is the biggest market within the form segment of ceramic textiles. Properties of ceramic cloth-like better performance at low temperatures, insulation, and heat insulation contribute to its large market size. Its wide applications include boiler insulation and seal, welding foundry works, aluminium, and steel mills, power plants, refineries, shipyards, and chemical plants. Braids would be the fastest-growing segment of the market.

Ceramics Textile Market - By End-User Industry:

• Industrial 
• Transportation

The industrial end-use industry dominates the ceramic textile market. It might also grow with the best CAGR during the forecast period. This is often mainly because of the growing petrochemical, steel, and aluminium end-use industries within the global market. High demand for end products from industries like iron & steel, aluminum, petrochemicals, etc., are driving the production of ceramic fibers.

Market Regional Analysis: 

The Global Ceramics Textile Market Report includes the segmentation of regions:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Latin America
• Middle East & Africa

Among the regions, the Asia Pacific holds the biggest share of over 35% within the global Ceramic Textile market, followed by North America and Europe. The growing demand from electronics and aviation industries across China and India is fuelling the expansion of this market within the Asia Pacific region. In the electronics and electrical industry, ceramics textiles are used to fabricate electrical and electronic components like igniters, insulators, and heating elements. Furthermore, the growing consumer and e-commerce sectors are additionally contributing to the expansion of the Ceramic Textile market share across the Asia Pacific region. Furthermore, the growing transportation sector, changing lifestyles, and rise in disposable income also contribute to the expansion of this market in the Asia Pacific region.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Ceramic Textiles Market:

The outbreak of COVID-19 is additionally considered the major restraining factor to the market growth over the forecast period. The COVID-19 pandemic has badly impacted the worldwide supply chain and world economy. Besides, Industries are being shuttered all around the globe because of the lockdown. Hence, declining demand from various industry verticals acts as a restraining factor to market growth.

Market Key Players:

1. Ibiden Co. Ltd. (Japan),
2. Luyang Energy-Saving Materials Co., Ltd. (China) 
3. Isolite Insulating Products Co., Ltd. (Japan) 
4. Kyocera Corporation (Japan)
5. Mineral Seal Corporation (U.S.)
6. Morgan Advanced Materials Corporation (U.K.) 
7. Rath Inc. (U.S.)
8. Rauschert Steinbach GmbH (Germany) 
9. The 3M Company (U.S.)
10. Unifrax Corporation (U.S.) 
11. Zircar Zirconia, Inc. (U.S.)