Global Industrial X-ray Film Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Industrial X-ray Film Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

X-ray film is a gelatin-covered polyester base. An emulsion coating both sides of the film contains ting silver halide crystals that are sensitive to such things as visible light X-rays, gamma rays, heat, moisture and pressure. The composition of x-ray film is similar to that of a photographic film. Industrial X-ray Film is used in welding, casting parts or composite pieces inspection and so on.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Industrial X-ray Film market finds that the global Industrial X-ray Film market reached a value of USD 261.39 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 361.63 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 5.56% during the forecast period.

Positive Impacts

The emergence of the new crown epidemic has greatly promoted the development of e-commerce. Many companies have adopted the combination of online sales and offline sales to carry out business, so they will expand the sales channels of products. In addition, the new crown epidemic has greatly restricted people's travel activities and increased people's time to surf the Internet, so the online marketing of products can achieve better results.

Negative Impacts

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted business and economic activities globally. It is expected to have a short-term impact on the Industrial X-ray Film market to a certain extent. With several countries across the globe announcing nationwide lockdowns and temporary closures of various industries, production and manufacturing have been severely affected. Stopping production not only aggravates the shortage of funds for small and medium-sized enterprises, but also reduces the solvency of enterprises, which may affect production and sales. Some enterprises have difficulties in operation and even go bankrupt. The epidemic situation has seriously affected the logistics and transportation, and the transportation of raw materials is difficult. The industrial chain of small and medium-sized enterprises is imperfect and fragile. Trade barriers have further impacted the demand-supply gap. Companies operating in the Industrial X-ray Film market have suspended non-essential visits/activities until the COVID-19 outbreak is resolved.
With the gradual control of the epidemic, some factories began to resume operation. However, enterprises need to protect the life and health of employees while operating production, such as purchasing masks, disinfectants and other epidemic prevention materials, disinfecting the working environment before and after production, and testing the body temperature of employees every day to ensure their health. These measures will increase production costs and affect the development of enterprises.

Nondestructive testing requirements

Industrial X-ray film is used in nondestructive testing (NDT). Nondestructive testing (NDT) is the process of inspecting, testing, or evaluating materials, components or assemblies for discontinuities, or differences in characteristics without destroying the serviceability of the part or system. Aerospace, defense, oil and gas, power generation and automotive are leading sectors that use NDT techniques to ensure the quality of products. These sectors use the NDT test to determine the physical properties of materials such as impact resistance, ductility, yield, ultimate tensile strength, fracture toughness, and fatigue strength. Industries such as automotive and aerospace, with their high image quality requirements are among the important end-users of high-resolution industrial X-ray inspection systems. The deep sea oil and gas industry basically relies on dependable equipment for carrying out safe and uninterrupted operations. NDT equipment therefore has achieved critical importance in the oil & gas industry, while creating opportunities for Industrial X-ray film.

The development of digital technology

Digital Radiography system is composed of explorer, impression processor, picture display and so on. Is to use the X-ray signal transmitted through the object is acquired by the explorer directly constitute a digital impression, the digital impression data transmission to the computer display on the display, combined with the digital impression workstation can be directly post-processing.
The main applications of Digital Radiography X-ray detector in the field of industrial nondestructive testing include casting nondestructive testing, circuit board testing, semiconductor packaging testing, lithium battery testing, food safety testing, etc. At present, the global industrial Digital Radiography X-ray detectors account for a relatively small share of the entire market, and X-ray films are still mainly used in the field and other industrial field fields. However, with the development of technology and the decrease of the cost of Digital Radiography X-ray detector, it will be a great challenge to the manufacturers of NetEase products.

Region Overview:

Geographically, China held the largest market share – 29.44% in 2022.

Company Overview:

GE (Agfa-Gevaert) is one of the major players operating in the Industrial X-ray Film market, holding a share of 27.94% in 2022.

GE (Agfa-Gevaert)

GE Aircraft Engines Completes Acquisition of Agfa's Non-Destructive Testing Unit in 2004, renamed GE Inspection Technologies. DS' parent business, GE Oil & Gas, merges with Baker Hughes Incorporated to become Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE). GE later sells down its majority ownership stake in BHGE in September 2019, resulting in a name change from BHGE to Baker Hughes. Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.

FUJIFILM

Providing products and services of Healthcare (Medical Systems, Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Bio CDMO, and Regenerative Medicine), Materials (Advanced Materials, Graphic Systems & Inkjets, and Recording Media), and Imaging (Photo Imaging and Optical Device and Electronic Imaging).

Segmentation Overview:

By type, Non-screen type films segment accounted for the largest share of market in 2022.

Screen type films

The screen is a type of X-ray film that utilizes the use of an inorganic phosphor screen to produce grainy, high contrast images.

Non-screen type films

Non-screen refers to x-ray films that are not made from silver halide crystals but rather other materials such as organic pigments on polyester base (OPP) or cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB).

Application Overview:

The market's largest segment by application is the segment Automotive manufacturing, with a market share of 23.78% in 2022.

Key Companies in the global Industrial X-ray Film market covered in Chapter 3:

China Lucky Film Corp
FOMA BOHEMIA
Carestream Health
FUJIFILM
GE (Agfa-Gevaert)
Tianjin Media Imaging Materials

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Industrial X-ray Film market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Screen type films
Non-screen type films

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Industrial X-ray Film market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Oil pipeline construction
Automotive manufacturing
Weapons production
Railway construction
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)