Global Sintered Porous Plastic Filters Market Research Report 2024-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2030

Global Sintered Porous Plastic Filters Market Research Report 2024-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2030

Sintered porous plastics are mainly made of various thermoplastic materials through a vacuum sintering process, commonly used materials are PP, PE, PTFE, and PA. Sintered cellular plastics offer exceptional strength, durability, chemical resistance, elasticity, and design flexibility in many applications. Sintered porous plastic filters are manufactured from a variety of thermoplastic materials with different properties and are available in sheets, rolls, or other geometric shapes to meet filtration, absorption, smearing, ventilation, diffusion, or wicking needs. Sintered porous plastic filters can be widely used in pharmaceutical, food production, laboratory wastewater treatment, fine chemical industry, non-ferrous metal, and other industries.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market finds that the global Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market reached a value of USD 162.45 million in 2023. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 243.65 million by 2029, exhibiting a CAGR of 6.99% during the forecast period.

Advantages of sintered porous plastic filters

Sintered porous plastics are composed of thousands of tiny connected pores. These interconnected pores mean the material is permeable to liquids. Permeability is tuned by controlling pore size as desired, which enables the component to function as a filtration, wicking, ventilation, or diffusion mechanism as desired. This may include functional capabilities such as wicking speed, wicking distance, filtration efficiency, flow resistance, and absorption rate and volume, among others. Sintered porous plastic is molded into discs, sheets, rolls, etc. to become part of the filter and can be supplied in any shape required by the customer. Furthermore, through the sintering process, it achieves exceptional strength and a stable structure while remaining lightweight. With the growing demand in industrial environments for high performance filters capable of removing smaller particles, withstanding higher pressures, and operating in harsh environments, sintered porous plastic filters are increasingly used due to their cost savings and increased efficiency Used in critical applications where reliability and performance are critical. Some specific applications include hydrophilic media for fluid transfer applications; liquid filters for clarification of pharmaceuticals, blood separation, and chemicals; and barrier vents for gas, pressure, and humidity sensors. Therefore, the advantages of sintered porous plastic filters include low cost; reusable; sterilizable, chemically resistant; hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or self-sealing properties; high strength, light weight, etc. As its advantages become more known, the market is expected to generate more demand for sintered porous plastic filters.

Increased use in the healthcare industry

In recent years, under the background of people's increasing health awareness and accelerating the aging process, the healthcare industry is developing rapidly. The healthcare boom has been accelerated by the pandemic. Many different types of companies and healthcare organizations work together to provide patient satisfaction and better quality of care, sometimes at great cost. To offset costs, healthcare providers are capitalizing on the growing desire of consumers to take a more active role in monitoring their health, encouraging the use of technologies that facilitate vital tracking, early detection, and prevention of disease. In the short term, with the use of artificial intelligence and robotics, this telemedicine is expected to increase, as will value-based healthcare, with hospitals receiving funding based on outcomes. In the medium term, data-based personalization in healthcare will increase. Personalized medicine uses a patient's data to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. In the long run, antibiotic resistance may increase. The development of technology and the faster pace of people's lives will lead to an increase in the number of diseases such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Gene therapy, which reveals new targets for treating depression, is expected to receive more attention in the future. The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry is experiencing significant growth, driven by growing demand for personalized medicine, biologics, and gene therapy. Sintered porous plastic filters are widely used in the healthcare industry for applications such as purification, separation, and aeration of gases and liquids. Hence, the boom in the healthcare industry is expected to drive the demand for sintered porous plastic filters.

Region Overview:

In 2022, the share of the Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market in North America stood at 31.38%.

Company Overview:

The major players operating in the Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market include Porex, Porvair Filtration Group, GenPore, Alfred Durst Filtertechnik GmbH, SPC Technologies, etc. Among which, Porex ranked top in terms of sales and revenue in 2023.

Porex Corporation is a global leader in advanced porous solutions. Porex engineers are able to supply high-value solutions for our customers’ product design challenges in absorption, application, diffusion, filtration, venting, and wicking. These advanced porous solutions can be applied in a wide variety of industries – from medical devices to writing instruments – to bring our customers’ product ideas to life.

Segmentation Overview:

By type, Polypropylene (PP) segment accounted for the largest share of market in 2022.

Application Overview:

By application, the Industry segment occupied the biggest share from 2018 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market covered in Chapter 3:

Thermopore
Blinex Filter
GenPore
Permaplas
AMI Enterprises
Rainbow Porous Filtration
MA Industries
Porex
Cobetter Filtration
DALON
Satkirti Filters
Biocomma
POROYAL
Filson Filters
Sinterfiltri
Porvair Filtration Group
Alfred Durst Filtertechnik GmbH
Lvyuan
SPC Technologies

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market from 2019 to 2030 is primarily split into:

Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE)
High-density Polyethylene (HDPE)
Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
Very Low-Density Polyethylene (VLDPE)
Polypropylene (PP)
Others

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Sintered Porous Plastic Filters market from 2019 to 2030 covers:

Industry
Healthcare
Consumer Goods
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2019-2030) 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)