Global Automotive Smart Glass Market to Hit 3.5B by 2018 | SMART ...

The revenues from smart glass and related coatings sold in the automotive sector are projected to reach USD 3.5 billion by 2018. Today, dimmable mirrors are the only automotive application that uses large amounts of smart glass; they currently account for more than USD 450 million in smart glass consumption annually. However, novel coatings based on nanomaterials and biomaterials will emerge that will bring self-cleaning and self-repairing glass up to performance levels suitable for use in automotive applications.

The windshield will be the main target for automotive smart glass suppliers over the next ten years. The windshield aperture is expected to consume USD 1.3 billion in smart glass products by 2018. Smart glass efforts are leading to innovations such as the wiperless windshield, the smart solar windshield and the self-repairing windshield.

New research study ?Smart Glass in the Automotive Sector ? 2013? developed by NanoMarkets provides an in-depth analysis of the worldwide automotive smart glass market, covering self-tinting, self-cleaning, self-healing and device-embedded glass. Eight-year revenue forecasts are included with breakouts by type of materials, functionality and the applications within the vehicle in which smart glass is used. The smart glass applications covered are windshields, mirrors, sunroofs, other automotive windows and dashboards. The report also discusses adoption strategies for smart glass by the major automobile and light truck companies.

?ompanies mentioned include: 3M, American Glass, Apple, ASG, AutoGlass, Balcony Systems, BASF, Bayer, Cardinal, Carlex, ChromoGenics, Corning, Dow Chemical, Gentex, Guardian, Hitachi, Hypho Technology, International Trading, NeoView Kolon, Nissan, NSG/Pilkington, Pleotint, RavenBrick, Research Frontiers, Saint-Gobain, Samsung, Solutia/Eastman, Sage, Switch Materials, US e-Chromics, and View.

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