Global Alkylation Catalysts Market Insights, Forecast to 2025

Alkylation is the transfer of an alkyl group from one molecule to another. Alkylation of isobutane with olefins in the petroleum is an important industrial process to improve the octane number. As the most usually liquid acid catalysts, concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and hydrofluoric acid (HF) have potential environmental problem especially for the HF alkylation process.
Alkylation is used by the petroleum refining industry to produce a high-octane gasoline blendstock. Current industrial alkylation processes catalyze the reaction with concentrated liquid mineral acids, either hydrofluoric (HF) or sulfuric acids (H2SO4), which pose serious safety and environmental risks. Solid acid catalysts are the new type of alkylation catalysts which could replace liquid acids and eliminate many safety and environmental concerns.
Global zeolite alkylation catalysts industry is gradually growing. The production of zeolite alkylation catalysts increased from 752 MT in 2011 to 1524 MT in 2015, with an average growth rate of 21.75%. Because of the high technology barrier, only four companies are able to manufacture zeolite alkylation catalysts in the world. Sinopec is the largest manufacturer in this market with 548 MT production in 2015. Followed by CRI with 400 MT, Albemarle with 349 MT and BASF with 227 MT. Among them, Albemarle production started from 2015.
Europe, North America and China are the major consumption areas of alkylation catalysts. 1973 MT alkylation catalysts was consumed in 2015. China consumption took about 47.44%, North America took for 43.83%, while Europe consumed 133 MT and accounting for 8.73 percent of the global alkylation catalysts production. Alkylation solid catalysts are mainly used in the aromatic alkylation processes and isobutane-olefin alkylation. The former is already commercial while solid catalysts used in the latter is still in the early stage. In 2015, 64.27% alkylation catalysts are consumed in the production of ethylbenzene & cumene. Ethylbenzene is an important raw material of styrene. 14.08 percent are consumed in the production of alkylate.
Global Alkylation Catalysts market size will increase to 133.4 Million US$ by 2025, from 81 Million US$ in 2018, at a CAGR of 7.4% during the forecast period. In this study, 2018 has been considered as the base year and 2019 to 2025 as the forecast period to estimate the market size for Alkylation Catalysts.

This report researches the worldwide Alkylation Catalysts market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like United States, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other regions.
This study categorizes the global Alkylation Catalysts breakdown data by manufacturers, region, type and application, also analyzes the market status, market share, growth rate, future trends, market drivers, opportunities and challenges, risks and entry barriers, sales channels, distributors and Porter's Five Forces Analysis.

The following manufacturers are covered in this report:
Albemarle
BASF SE (Germany)
CRI
Sinopec

Alkylation Catalysts Breakdown Data by Type
H2SO4
HF
Alkylation Catalysts Breakdown Data by Application
Alkylate Production
Ethylbenzene & Cumene Production
Others

Alkylation Catalysts Production Breakdown Data by Region
United States
Europe
China
Japan
Other Regions

Alkylation Catalysts Consumption Breakdown Data by Region
North America
United States
Canada
Mexico
Asia-Pacific
China
Japan
South Korea
India
Australia
Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
Vietnam
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Rest of Europe
Central & South America
Brazil
Rest of South America
Middle East & Africa
Turkey
GCC Countries
Egypt
South Africa
Rest of Middle East & Africa

The study objectives are:
To analyze and research the global Alkylation Catalysts capacity, production, value, consumption, status and forecast;
To focus on the key Alkylation Catalysts manufacturers and study the capacity, production, value, market share and development plans in next few years.
To focuses on the global key manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the market competition landscape, SWOT analysis.
To define, describe and forecast the market by type, application and region.
To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks.
To identify significant trends and factors driving or inhibiting the market growth.
To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders by identifying the high growth segments.
To strategically analyze each submarket with respect to individual growth trend and their contribution to the market.
To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market.
To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.

In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Alkylation Catalysts :
History Year: 2014-2018
Base Year: 2018
Estimated Year: 2019
Forecast Year 2019 to 2025
For the data information by region, company, type and application, 2018 is considered as the base year. Whenever data information was unavailable for the base year, the prior year has been considered.