Study sees opportunities in US web-imaging market

NOVEMBER 1--Vision Systems International (Yardley, PA, USA; www.vision1.com/vsi/) and its president Nello Zuech have completed a comprehensive market-opportunity analysis of the web-scanner market in the United States, with extrapolations for the worldwide market. Not only does the report look at historical data and make sales projections into each of the web-scanner end-user industries, it also draws conclusions about the total U.S. and worldwide market opportunities for each of the end-user markets, as well as estimating remaining available markets. In addition, it examines the competitive landscape in the US market including analysis of market share. It also provides details on the US geographic distribution of the market for each end-user industry.

The total market opportunity is derived for 35 distinct industries known to be users of web scanners. Nine of these industries are paper related, seven primarily metal related, five plastic related, eight textiles related, two glass related, and one each associated with nonwovens, electronics, photographic film, and tire fabric. The analysis concludes the total available United States market for web scanners is 2663 units and that there are still 1210 units to be delivered and worldwide a world market for 7799 web scanners of which there is still an opportunity for 3554 units, not counting new units being substituted for older units because of better performance. In other words, this represents the total market opportunity for each technology cycle.

The report is available from Vision Systems International for $3000.