2022-2027 Clay Product & Refractory Manufacturing Market Forecast

Updated: April 2024

U.S. Market Forecast & Outlook

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The future growth of the Clay Product & Refractory Manufacturing is influenced by internal and external factors. Internal factors include structure and competition within the industry, market demand, and innovative and disruptive factors. External factors include the state of the economy and cyclical patterns.

Clay Product & Refractory Manufacturing Competitor Landscape & Key Companies [PREMIUM]

Innovation News

• AS America patents Flush Toilet - 07/14/2022
  
• AS America patents Flush Toilet - 07/14/2022
  
• Carbo Ceramics patents Composition And Method For Hydraulic Fracturing And Evaluation And Diagnostics Of Hydraulic Fractures Using Infused Porous Ceramic Proppant - 07/07/2022
  
• Wonder Porcelain Group trademarks "SONORAN PLATEAU PORCELAIN" - Non-metal porcelain tiles for floors and walls - 04/11/2022
  
• Wonder Porcelain Group trademarks "DESTINY SLATE PORCELAIN" - Non-metal porcelain tiles for floors and walls - 12/03/2021
  
• Wonder Porcelain Group trademarks "MILLENNIUM PORCELAIN" - Non-metal porcelain tiles for floors and walls - 12/03/2021
  
• Clay raises $1 million in funding. - 06/15/2021
  
• Clay raises $3 million in funding. - 06/15/2021
  
• Fireclay Tile raises $1 million in funding. - 08/30/2017
  

Executive Briefings

As the demand for ceramic proppant (including proppant produced by us) continued to be negatively impacted in 2019 and continuing into 2020, the number of domestic and international competitors in the marketplace continued to decrease, and many of our competitors have shut down plants and/or reduced production.  However, we do not have full visibility as to the extent or duration of 4   these shut-downs and reductions.  One of our worldwide proppant competitors is Saint-Gobain Proppants (“Saint-Gobain”).  Saint-Gobain is a division of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a large French glass and materials company.  Saint-Gobain manufactures a variety of ceramic proppants that it markets in competition with some of our products.  Saint-Gobain’s primary manufacturing facilities are located in Bauxite, Arkansas.  Saint-Gobain also manufactures ceramic proppant in China.  Mineracao Curimbaba (“Curimbaba”), based in Brazil, also manufactures and markets ceramic proppant in competition with some of our products.  Imerys, S.A., a competitor based in France (“Imerys”), has ceramic proppant manufacturing facilities in Andersonville and Wrens, Georgia and also competes with some of our products.  Imerys sold their Wrens, Georgia proppant manufacturing facility to a third party in 2019. We are aware of a number of manufacturers in China.  Most of these companies produce intermediate-density and low-density ceramic proppants that are marketed both inside and outside of China.  However, beginning in early 2015, imports into North America declined significantly or stopped. Our KRYPTOSPHERE product line replaced both CARBOHSP and CARBOPROP.  Historically, competition for CARBOHSP and CARBOPROP principally includes ceramic proppant manufactured by Saint-Gobain, Curimbaba, as well as various manufacturers located in China.  Our CARBOLITE, CARBOECONOPROP and CARBOHYDROPROP products compete primarily with ceramic proppant produced by Saint-Gobain, Curimbaba and Imerys and with sand-based proppant for use in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells.  At this time, there is not in our view a comparable competitor’s product to our mono-mesh KRYPTOSPHERE product line, which is the subject of patent protection. We believe that some of the significant factors that influence a customer’s decision to purchase our ceramic proppant are (i) reservoir and geological characteristics, (ii) price/performance ratio, (iii) on-time delivery performance, (iv) technical support, (v) proppant availability and (vi) the financial status of E Carbo Ceramics