MARKET TRENDS
T he European market continued to grow in 2018, reaching around €940m, of which about 3% were adiabatic. This increase has been driven by the m ain European markets: Germany, Italy, France a nd Spain, which recorded growths of around +10%.
A ir-cooled heat exchangers continue to gain ground and represent 34% of the market in this year. The rest of the market is composed of evaporative coolers (35%), condensers (18%) and CO 2 gas-air heat exchangers (13%).
The heat exchangers market is dominated b y commercial refrigeration (39%), followed by industrial and comfort applications, with 26% and 21% of the market respectively. It is worth noting that the trend is significantly in favour for new heat exchangers (63%) to that of replacement (37%).
Chilled beams
The chilled beams market has once again decreased – by 6% this year – falling to €54.4m in 2018. This decrease was spurred by the countries that traditionally represented the b ulk of the market, such as Sweden, the UK and France. These countries, with a market share of 51% in the EU, saw declines of -5% for Sweden
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a nd -30% for the UK, as a result of Brexit. Other regions, like Italy, Belgium and the Baltic countries also recorded negative movements. Conversely, Denmark, Spain and, outside of the EU, Switzerland and Russia have also benefited from increases of more than 40%.
A ctive chilled beams, which constitute 93% o f sales, remain the most used in Europe. Among these, 76% are integrated and 24% are autonomous.
The growth in air filters in the EMEA market s ubsided in 2018, with total sales of around € 950m. The two biggest countries, Germany and F rance, who jointly represent 40% of the market, recorded a slight decrease of around -2%, whereas the UK and Italy increased by 4%. In terms of filtration category, the most
used filters were of the ePM1, ePM5 and ePM10 c ategories, even though the trend is clearly downwards as they fell from 61% of the market i n 2014 to 52% in 2018. In terms of the design, bag filters continue to dominate the market, even though they showed a downwards trend in favour of panel filters, with 43.1% and 31.8% respectively of the market share in 2018.
T he European cooling towers market grew by 16% in 2018 to reach €131.3m. Five countries represent two-thirds of the European market: Germany, I taly, France, the UK and Poland. All of these c ountries have seen an increase in their sales, the highest being recorded in Poland where the g rowth reached 25%.
O utside of the EU, the biggest markets were the Arabian Peninsula (around €20m), Turkey (about €14m) and Russia (almost €9m). However , the market only increased in Russia between 2017 a nd 2018, whereas the Arabian Peninsula and T urkey experienced a significant decrease in their s ales.
Open cooling towers were the most popular in most European countries. Only the Baltic countries, Belgium, France and Romania preferred closed circuit towers.
A s in previous years, more than 60% of the E uropean market constituted low capacity units, those with fewer than 10 cells.
Large capacity towers, with more than 50 cells, are used occasionally in projects in Europe, whereas they are more common in other geographical zones, like the Arabian P eninsula.
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