Anti-fog Additives Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Product (Glycerol Esters, Polyglycerol Esters), By Application (Food Packaging Films, Agricultural Films), By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030

Research Methodology

A three-pronged approach was followed for deducing the anti-fog additives market estimates and forecasts. The process has three steps: information procurement, analysis, and validation. The whole process is cyclical, and steps repeat until the estimates are validated. The three steps are explained in detail below:

Information procurement: Information procurement is one of the most extensive and important stages in our research process, and quality data is critical for accurate analysis. We followed a multi-channel data collection process for anti-fog additives market to gather the most reliable and current information possible.

• We buy access to paid databases such as Hoover’s and Factiva for company financials, industry information, white papers, industry journals, SME journals, and more.
• We tap into Grand View’s proprietary database of data points and insights from active and archived monitoring and reporting.
• We conduct primary research with industry experts through questionnaires and one-on-one phone interviews.
• We pull from reliable secondary sources such as white papers and government statistics, published by organizations like WHO, NGOs, World Bank, etc., Key Opinion Leaders (KoL) publications, company filings, investor documents, and more.
• We purchase and review investor analyst reports, broker reports, academic commentary, government quotes, and wealth management publications for insightful third-party perspectives.

Analysis: We mine the data collected to establish baselines for forecasting, identify trends and opportunities, gain insight into consumer demographics and drivers, and so much more. We utilized different methods of anti-fog additives market data depending on the type of information we’re trying to uncover in our research.

• Market Research Efforts: Bottom-up Approach for estimating and forecasting demand size and opportunity, top-down Approach for new product forecasting and penetration, and combined approach of both Bottom-up and Top-down for full coverage analysis.

• Value-Chain-Based Sizing & Forecasting: Supply-side estimates for understanding potential revenue through competitive benchmarking, forecasting, and penetration modeling.

• Demand-side estimates for identifying parent and ancillary markets, segment modeling, and heuristic forecasting.

• Qualitative Functional Deployment (QFD) Modelling for market share assessment.

Market formulation and validation: We mine the data collected to establish baselines for forecasting, identify trends and opportunities, gain insight into consumer demographics and drivers, and so much more. We utilize different methods of data analysis depending on the type of information we’re trying to uncover in our research.

• Market Formulation: This step involves the finalization of market numbers. This step on an internal level is designed to manage outputs from the Data Analysis step.

• Data Normalization: The final market estimates and forecasts are then aligned and sent to industry experts, in-panel quality control managers for validation.

• This step also entails the finalization of the report scope and data representation pattern.

• Validation: The process entails multiple levels of validation. All these steps run in parallel, and the study is forwarded for publishing only if all three levels render validated results.

Anti-fog Additives Market Categorization:

The anti-fog additives market was categorized into three segments, namely product (Glycerol Esters, Ethoxylated Sorbitan Esters, Polyglycerol Esters, Sorbitan Esters, Polyoxyethylene Esters), application (Agricultural Films, Food Packaging Films), and region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Central & South America, and Middle East & Africa).

Segment Market Methodology:

The anti-fog additives market was segmented into product, application, and region. The demand at a segment level was deduced using a funnel method. Concepts like the TAM, SAM, SOM, etc., were put into practice to understand the demand. We at GVR deploy three methods to deduce market estimates and determine forecasts. These methods are explained below:

Market research approaches: Bottom-up

• Demand estimation of each product across countries/regions summed up to from the total market.

• Variable analysis for demand forecast.

• Demand estimation via analyzing paid database, and company financials either via annual reports or paid database.

• Primary interviews for data revalidation and insight collection.

Market research approaches: Top-down

• Used extensively for new product forecasting or analyzing penetration levels.

• Tool used invoice product flow and penetration models Use of regression multi-variant analysis for forecasting Involves extensive use of paid and public databases.

• Primary interviews and vendor-based primary research for variable impact analysis.

Market research approaches: Combined

• This is the most common method. We apply concepts from both the top-down and bottom-up approaches to arrive at a viable conclusion.

Regional Market Methodology:

The anti-fog additives market was analyzed at a regional level. The globe was divided into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Central & South America, and Middle East & Africa, keeping in focus variables like consumption patterns, export-import regulations, consumer expectations, etc. These regions were further divided into eighteen countries, namely, the U.S.; Canada; Mexico; Germany; the UK; France; Italy; Spain; Russia; Benelux; Turkey; China; India; Japan; Brazil; Argentina; South Africa; Saudi Arabia.

All three above-mentioned market research methodologies were applied to arrive at regional-level conclusions. The regions were then summed up to form the global market.

Anti-fog additives market companies & financials:

The anti-fog additives market was analyzed via companies operating in the sector. Analyzing these companies and cross-referencing them to the demand equation helped us validate our assumptions and conclusions. Key market players analyzed include:

• Clariant AG was established in 1995 and is headquartered in Switzerland. The company has expanded its horizon through various mergers and acquisitions. As of 2015, the company has 10 operating companies located in 53 countries. Clariant develops, manufactures, markets, and sells its products to the agriculture, automotive, construction, electronics, healthcare, packaging, and textiles industries. The company operates through four business areas - plastics and coatings, catalysis and energy, care chemicals, and natural resources. Its products include specialty ingredients for hair and skin care, wet wipes, dispersing agents for crop protection, process catalysts, colorants for printing, coatings, polymer masterbatches, petrochemicals, and customized solutions for the oil, refinery, and mining industries. It is also engaged in R&D to address key trends including renewable raw materials, energy efficiency, emission-free mobility, and the conservation of finite resources.

• AkzoNobel N.V. is a Dutch multinational company operating in specialty chemicals, decorative paints, and performance coatings in more than 80 countries. AkzoNobel has several business units grouped into three segments, namely specialty chemicals, decorative paints, and performance coatings. The decorative paints segment supplies paints, varnishes, lacquers as well as and color concepts for the construction industry, and specialty coatings for wood and metal. The performance coatings segment includes the business units of marine and protective coatings, industrial and powder coatings, and automotive and specialty coatings, and manufactures paints and coatings for yacht, ships, cars, trucks, and other applications. The specialty chemicals segment is sub-divided into four business units, namely industrial chemicals, functional chemicals, surface chemistry, and pulp and performance chemicals. Under functional chemicals, the company manufactures chelate, salt specialties, cellulosic specialties, ethylene amines, organic peroxides, metal alkyls, polysulfide, sulfur products, and polymer additives for use in automotive parts, vinyl, detergents, agricultural products, pharmaceutical products, food products, plastic bags, wallpaper adhesives, and cosmetics.          

• Ashland Incorporated is a specialty chemicals company headquartered in Covington, Kentucky, U.S. The company provides solutions to customers in a variety of industrial and consumer markets, including adhesives, agriculture, architectural coatings, electronics, automotive, transportation, mineral processing, energy, food and beverage, personal care, and pharmaceuticals. It has since expanded into a global specialty chemicals company serving customers in over 100 countries. Ashland operates through three business units - Ashland Performance Materials, Ashland Specialty Ingredients, and Valvoline. The performance materials segment is divided into two divisions, composites and intermediates, and provides resins for suppliers to manufacture greener, safer, and fuel-efficient transportation. The specialty ingredients segment produces natural and semisynthetic ingredients derived from plant and seed extracts to serve the needs of the personal care, paints, and food and beverage industries. Valvoline produces a variety of lubricants, antifreeze, and motor oils for industrial, automotive, and commercial applications.

• Croda International plc is a specialty chemicals company. It was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Snaith, UK, to manufacture lanolin. Since then, the company has diversified into the production and processing of chemicals, printing inks, paints, dyes, adhesives, and honey. In 2015, Croda employed more than 4200 people at its 18 manufacturing sites and offices located in over 30 countries. The company operates in four major market sectors, namely personal care, industrial chemicals, life sciences, and performance technologies. Crop care and health care together make up the life sciences sector, while the performance technologies sector is further divided into home care, coatings and polymers, lubricants, geo technologies, and polymer additives business segments. Croda Polymer Additives provides naturally sourced specialty chemicals offering anti-static, anti-fog, pigment dispersion, mold release, torque release, slip & anti-block, and UV-absorption properties for various polymers.

• Evonik Industries AG is involved in the manufacturing of specialty chemicals and is headquartered in Essen, Germany. As a part of the restructuring of the RAG Group in 2007, the chemicals, energy, and real estate business areas were transferred to form Evonik Industries. The company’s markets include adhesives, automotive, coatings, agriculture, electronics, mining, personal care, pharmaceuticals, and packaging industries with almost 82% of its sales outside Germany. The company's operations are divided into four business segments, namely nutrition and care, resource efficiency, performance materials, and services. Nutrition and care manufactures specialty chemicals for use in consumer goods to meet food, animal nutrition, and healthcare requirements. The resource efficiency segment offers energy-efficient and environment-friendly solutions for use in adhesives, automotive, and construction industries. while the performance materials segment manufactures polymer materials and intermediates for use in the plastics, rubber, and agriculture sectors. The services segment provides site management, waste management, technical, engineering, and logistics services for its chemical segments as well as external customers.

• PolyOne Corporation is headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S. The company provides polymer materials, solutions, and services to the textiles, transportation, electronics, healthcare, packaging, consumer appliances, and construction sectors. The company’s products include plastic sheet and packaging solutions, color and additive systems, specialty polymer formulations, and polymer distribution. PolyOne has 80 manufacturing and distribution facilities worldwide and operates in five business segments - specialty engineered materials; color, additives and inks; performance products and solutions; designed structures and solutions; and PolyOne distribution. Specialty engineered materials provides specialty polymer formulations, solutions, and services for assemblers, designers, and processors of thermoplastics for a range of applications. The color, additives and inks segment provides additive and color concentrates in liquid and solid forms for thermoplastics and dispersions for thermosets. Performance products and solutions delivers a wide range of products and services for extrusion processors and vinyl molding. Designed structures and solutions provides solutions for rigid barrier packaging, engineered polymer structures, and specialty cast acrylics. PolyOne Distribution distributes more than 3,500 grades of commodity and engineering resins.   

• PCC Chemax, Inc. is a U.S.-based company that formulates, manufactures, and markets additives that are used as functionality and property enhancers and processing aids in different industrial products. Chemax was found to develop specialty additive products for specific markets and individual customers. The company was acquired by the PCC Group in 2006 as a part of the group’s international expansion strategy. PCC Chemax’s products serve the metal cleaning, metalworking, metal plating, oilfield, polymer additives, household and industrial cleaning, construction, coatings and adhesives, textile, and corrosion protection markets in South America, North America, Europe, and Asia. The company offers a wide range of compounds, including esters, amines, sulfonates, and primary, and secondary amides for niche applications in the polymer industry. PCC Chemax’s anti-fog formulations are used for hot and cold clear food packaging films that meet FDA requirements and for agricultural applications such as greenhouse and poly mulch films.

• A. Schulman, Inc., part of LyondellBasell, is headquartered in Akron, Ohio, U.S., and is engaged in the manufacturing of high-performance plastic resins and compounds for use as raw material in several markets, including mobility, packaging, construction, electronics, agriculture, personal care and hygiene, sports, and leisure. The company's chief products consist of custom-formulated and proprietary engineered plastic compounds, additives, and color concentrates that improve the performance and appearance of plastics in various applications. A. Schulman operates in five business segments - engineered composites, masterbatch, engineered plastics, specialty powders, and distribution services. The company has technology centers in Europe and North America devoted to color research and new product development.

• E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (commonly called DuPont) is a U.S.-based science and technology conglomerate headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. The company’s business segments currently include electronics and communications, agriculture, industrial biosciences, performance materials, nutrition and health, and safety and protection. The company employs more than 52,000 people in at least 90 countries. DuPont’s food packaging materials help in protecting the flavor and quality of food and beverages, while reducing packaging waste. DuPont develops and designs innovative food packaging materials in collaboration with brand owners, converters, and equipment manufacturers. The company’s products are used for dairy and cheese, beverages, snacks, cereals, meats, and seafood.

• Addcomp Holland B.V. is a Dutch company engaged in the development, production, and sale of polymer additive solutions for application in polystyrene, polyolefin, polyester, and polyamide products such as films, yarns, wood-plastic composites, injection- and blow-molded plastics, and glass fibers. The company has its headquarters located in Nijverdal, the Netherlands. Addcomp supplies its solutions as powders, masterbatches, compacts, or granules. The company’s products serve various end-user markets, including consumer, automotive, agricultural, packaging, construction, and electronics. In 2007, Addcomp Holland acquired PRIEX resin business, including all intellectual properties from Solvay. The company has sales offices and manufacturing plants located in Nijverdal as well as Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S.

Value chain-based sizing & forecasting

Supply Side Estimates

• Company revenue estimation via referring to annual reports, investor presentations, and Hoover’s.

• Segment revenue determination via variable analysis and penetration modeling.

• Competitive benchmarking to identify market leaders and their collective revenue shares.

• Forecasting via analyzing commercialization rates, pipelines, market initiatives, distribution networks, etc.

Demand side estimates

• Identifying parent markets and ancillary markets

• Segment penetration analysis to obtain pertinent

• revenue/volume

• Heuristic forecasting with the help of subject matter experts

• Forecasting via variable analysis

Anti-fog Additives Market Report Objectives:

• Understanding market dynamics (in terms of drivers, restraints, & opportunities) in the countries.

• Understanding trends & variables in the individual countries & their impact on growth and using analytical tools to provide high-level insights into the market dynamics and the associated growth pattern.

• Understanding market estimates and forecasts (with the base year as 2021, historic information from 2018 to 2020, and forecast from 2022 to 2030). Regional estimates & forecasts for each category are available and are summed up to form the global market estimates.

Anti-fog Additives Market Report Assumptions:

• The report provides market value for the base year 2022 and a yearly forecast till 2030 in terms of revenue/volume or both. The market for each of the segment outlooks has been provided on region & country basis for the above-mentioned forecast period.

• The key industry dynamics, major technological trends, and application markets are evaluated to understand their impact on the demand for the forecast period. The growth rates were estimated using correlation, regression, and time-series analysis.

• We have used the bottom-up approach for market sizing, analyzing key regional markets, dynamics, & trends for various products and end-users. The total market has been estimated by integrating the country markets.

• All market estimates and forecasts have been validated through primary interviews with the key industry participants.

• Inflation has not been accounted for to estimate and forecast the market.

• Numbers may not add up due to rounding off.

• Europe consists of EU-8, Central & Eastern Europe, along with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

• Asia Pacific includes South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania (Australia & New Zealand).

• Latin America includes Central American countries and the South American continent

• Middle East includes Western Asia (as assigned by the UN Statistics Division) and the African continent.

Primary Research

GVR strives to procure the latest and unique information for reports directly from industry experts, which gives it a competitive edge. Quality is of utmost importance to us, therefore every year we focus on increasing our experts’ panel. Primary interviews are one of the critical steps in identifying recent market trends and scenarios. This process enables us to justify and validate our market estimates and forecasts to our clients. With more than 8,000 reports in our database, we have connected with some key opinion leaders across various domains, including healthcare, technology, consumer goods, and the chemical sector. Our process starts with identifying the right platform for a particular type of report, i.e., emails, LinkedIn, seminars, or telephonic conversation, as every report is unique and requires a differentiated approach.

We send out questionnaires to different experts from various regions/ countries, which is dependent on the following factors:

• Report/Market scope: If the market study is global, we send questionnaires to industry experts across various regions, including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and MEA.

• Market Penetration: If the market is driven by technological advancements, population density, disease prevalence, or other factors, we identify experts and send out questionnaires based on region or country dominance.

The time to start receiving responses from industry experts varies based on how niche or well-penetrated the market is. Our reports include a detailed chapter on the KoL opinion section, which helps our clients understand the perspective of experts already in the market space.