How Has the FCC Catalyst Market Evolved Historically and What is its Current Size?
The fcc catalyst market has seen considerable growth due to a variety of factors.
• There has been significant growth in the FCC catalyst market size in the past few years. The market is projected to increase from $2.89 billion in 2024 to $3.06 billion in 2025, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.8%. This growth in the previous years is due to factors like the expansion of global refining capacity, worldwide shift to the processing of heavy crude, emphasis on yield enhancement, rise in petrochemicals demand, refining operations' globalization, and the drive for energy efficiency.
What Is The Projected Growth Of The FCC Catalyst Template Market?
The FCC Catalyst market is expected to maintain its strong growth trajectory in upcoming years.
• In the forthcoming years, the FCC catalyst market is predicted to witness substantial growth. It is projected to escalate to $3.77 billion by 2029, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4%.
The anticipated growth during the forecast period can be credited to factors such as the rise in feedstock complexity, shift towards eco-friendly catalysts, emphasis on residue upgrading, optimization for propylene production, and market expansion in emerging regions. The forecast period is also expected to see major trends including the incorporation of artificial intelligence, improved catalyst regeneration technologies, partnership for research and development, digital transformation, and process enhancement, as well as the adoption of bottom-of-the-barrel technologies.
What Are The Key Drivers Fueling Growth In The FCC Catalyst Market?
The rise in the demand for products derived from petroleum is spurring the expansion of the FCC catalyst market. Petroleum products are compounds made from crude oil, exhibiting similar physical and chemical characteristics. Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst enhances the speed of the chemical reaction, reducing the activation energy necessary in the refining of petroleum. In these refining procedures, FCC catalyst aids in converting heavy-boiling and heavy-molecular-weight hydrocarbon particles of petroleum crude oils into useful petroleum products like olefinic gases, gasoline, among others. For example, as reported by the Energy Information Administration, a US government agency, in August 2023, the total petroleum consumption in the US averaged around 20.28 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2022. This included roughly 1.17 million b/d of biofuels—incorporating 1.002 b/d of fuel ethanol and 0.164 b/d of biodiesel, renewable diesel, and other combined biofuels. This showed a growth of about 2% from 2021 and almost 12% from 2020, largely due to the revival of the U.S. economy to its pre-pandemic activity levels. The consumption of practically all petroleum products in 2022 surpassed the consumption records of 2021. Consequently, the increasing demand for products based on petroleum is propelling the growth of the FCC catalyst market.
What Are The Principal Market Segments In The Global FCC Catalyst Industry?
The FCC catalyst market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Product: Gasoline Sulfur Reduction, Maximum Bottoms Conversion, Maximum Light Olefins, Maximum Middle Distillates, Other Products
2) By Application: Residue, Vacuum Gas Oil, Other Applications
3) By End-User: Refinery, Environmental, Other End-Users
Subsegments:
1) By Gasoline Sulfur Reduction: Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) Catalysts, Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Catalysts
2) By Maximum Bottoms Conversion: High Activity Catalysts, ZSM-5 Additives
3) By Maximum Light Olefins: Zeolite-Based Catalysts, Non-Zeolite Catalysts
4) By Maximum Middle Distillates: Iso-Merization Catalysts, Hydrocracking Catalysts
5) By Other Products: Specialty Catalysts, Additives For Catalyst Performance Enhancement
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Which Emerging Market Trends Are Altering The FCC Catalyst Industry?
The progression of technological innovations is a prominent trend that is emerging within the FCC catalyst market. Leading participants in the field of fluid catalytic cracking are concentrating on enhancing their technological capabilities to maintain their market dominance, and introducing new technologies to augment their product portfolios. For instance, in March 2022, BASF, a company based in Germany that provides FCC catalysts and systems for refinery catalysts, introduced FourtitudeTM, a fresh FCC catalyst specifically formulated to maximize butylenes production from reside feedstocks. Fourtitude is the most recent product built on BASF's winning multiple framework topologies (MFT) technology, optimized to provide superior selectivity to butylenes while preserving the catalyst's activity.
Who Are the Key Players In The FCC Catalyst Market?
Major companies operating in the FCC catalyst market include:
• Axens SA
• N.E. Chemcat
• Porocel Corporation
• Yueyang Sciensun Chemical Co. Ltd.
• DuPont de Nemours Inc.
• Magma Ceramics & Catalysts
• Albemarle Corporation
• W.R. Grace Company
• Johnson Matthey
• Flour Corporation
• Shell plc
• Honeywell International Inc.
• Exxon Mobil Corporation
• McDermott International Ltd
• Arkema S.A.
• BASF SE
• Sinopec Corporation
• China National Petroleum Corporation
• Clariant AG
• Haldor Topsoe
• JGC C&C
• Zeolyst International
• Versalis
• Nanjing Lantian Chemical
• Jilin Petrochemical Company
• Qingdao Huadong Catalytic Agent Co. Ltd.
• Fushun Shuntian Petrochemical
• Rive Technology
• Wuxi Xuelang Chemical Technology
• Ecopetrol S.A.
• Nippon Ketjen Co. Ltd.
• Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.
• Universal Oil Products
• PetroChina Catalyst Company
• Grace Catalysts Technologies
What Are The Regional Insights Into The FCC Catalyst Market?
Asia-Pacific was the largest region in the FCC catalyst market in 2024. The regions covered in the FCC catalyst market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa
