Transnational Business Research & Consultancy

MULTICLIENT STUDY

Business Review

Industrial Starches - Supply/Demand/Forecasts

2014-2020

To be published Autumn 2015

Markets

Iran

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Sectors

Textiles

Paper/Board

Oil drilling

Construction

Foundry

Others

GIRACT Introduction Geneva, Switzerland

Starch is a major building block of modern industry and its production and

use continue to expand unabated in areas with strong economic growth. A

truly global business, the starch industry faces serious challenges trying to

balance the large and mature markets of EU and USA with the young and

rapidly expanding industries in rapidly developing countries. The key to the

industry is the balance between the technical benefits of starches originating

from different raw material and the availability and economic advantages of

those raw materials in different areas.

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The issue of price plays a more important role in the developing countries, and in the paper/board and textile sectors

which have mostly moved over to the developing countries, petrochemical sourced synthetics thus have a strong

competitive position vis-à-vis both native and modified starches.

The Middle-East is one of the rapidly growing areas of the world. Since several global starch players are currently

focussing on this area, the supply and eventually the demand scenario are set to go through significant changes in the

near future, particularly for industrial starches. Apart from oil-drilling, which is a very well established end-use sector,

even relatively nascent areas such as paper and board, gypsum, plastic board, etc. are all performing in a very

satisfactory manner.

MULTICLIENT STUDY – Industrial Starches 2015

GIRACT Introduction Geneva, Switzerland

Many global as well as smaller players from the US, Europe, China, India and a few other countries are already operating

in the Middle-East, which has also become a very competitive market. For example, some potato starch made from the

‘waste’ from the European frozen potato sector were being used in the oil drilling sector, but this has now been replaced

by much cheaper maize starch from China and India.

Giract holds a leading position as a global business research and strategic consulting organisation with regard to the

starch industry. Giract's competence includes market insight reports covering the supply and demand of a wide range of

starches and sweeteners across sectors and countries around the world, the latest being a global analysis for Starch

Demand published in March 2012, and a report to be published in June 2015 on the global Starch Supply scenario.

An ecosystem of starch conferences, newsletters, and quarterly price monitoring reports round up Giract's expertise in

the starch arena.

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For more information, contact

V. Krishnakumar or Russell Ward

GIRACT

24, Pré-Colomb

1290 Versoix/Geneva

Switzerland

Tel: + 41 22 779 0500; Fax: + 41 22 779 0505

Email: info@giract.com; Web: www.giract.com

MULTICLIENT STUDY – Industrial Starches 2015

GIRACT Objectives of this study Geneva, Switzerland

Industrial Starches – Native and Modified

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To provide an in-depth understanding of players and products

To examine the current relevant legislation and import duties

To track the current production trends of industrial starches – both native and modified, if any, by type

To establish price trends of industrial starches by type of starch

To obtain a firm understanding of the relevant market sizes for the end use sectors, industry structure, industry developments and formulations currently used and to forecast usage trends for industrial starches by type of starch

MULTICLIENT STUDY – Industrial Starches 2015

This unique study examines supply/demand/forecasts of Industrial Starches in Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates

GIRACT Subscription Geneva, Switzerland

• Industrial starches: - Native - Modified

• Key end-use sectors: - Textiles - Paper/Board - Oil drilling - Construction - Foundry - Others

Sectors

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• Iran

• Saudi Arabia

• United Arab Emirates

Markets

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Timescale

Programme

The dominant element

of the study is interviews

with key players -

manufacturers/

distributors/

end users – from which a

real understanding of the

market will be derived

Current: 2014

Forecast: 2020

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STUDY HIGHLIGHT SCOPE WHAT DO YOU GET?

1. Electronic Copy

of report in

searchable PDF

format

2. One Printed

Copy

3. Report to be

published in

Autumn 2015