Ferrite Magnetostrictive Material Market - Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Trends, Application Analysis, Growth And Forecast 2021-2026

Ferrite magnetostrictive material market size is forecast to reach US$8.7 billion by 2026, after growing at a CAGR of 9.1% during 2021-2026. Ferrites are ceramic materials that have many applications in electronics, including ultrasonic radiators, magnetic stress sensors, and more. The global ferrite magnetostrictive material market has witnessed tremendous growth in the past few years as it possesses properties such as high reliability, high longevity, high accuracy, and long working life which make it feasible for end-users such as wastewater treatment facilities, pharmaceutical producers, manufacturers of consumer products, and more. Moreover, increasing demand for efficient healthcare facilities is expected to bring impetus opportunities for the ferrite magnetostrictive industry. However, the availability of other magnetostrictive materials such as iron, cobalt, nickel, rare earth materials, and more are projected the restrain the ferrite magnetostrictive materials market during the forecast period.

The virus epidemic has ravaged the worldwide industrial market, resulting in economic crises across all verticals of the industry. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global electronics industry had been growing at a slow rate. After the pandemic, the global electronics industry faced a dual impact. Many factories were pressured by the COVID-19 pandemic to temporarily shut down their production units, owing to which the electronics industry saw a drop in trade from January to November 2020. The production facilities of the electronics parts were halted owing to the logistics slowdown and unavailability of the workforce across the globe. On the other hand, various e-commerce companies across the globe discontinued the delivery of non-essential items (including most of the electronics products), which affected the electronics industry. And since ferrite magnetostrictive materials are often used in the electronics products such as magnetic stress sensors, ultrasonic radiators, and more; the hindrance in the electronic sector functioning, also affected the ferrite magnetostrictive materials market revenue growth in 2020.

The report: “Ferrite Magnetostrictive Material Market – Forecast (2021-2026)”, by IndustryARC, covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the ferrite magnetostrictive material Market.

By Application: Magnetic Stress Sensors, Ultrasonic Radiators, Magnetoelastic Transducers, and others.

By End-Use Industry: Consumer Electronics, Industrial Manufacturing, Wastewater Treatment, Healthcare, and others

By Geography: North America (USA, Canada, and Mexico), Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Netherland, Spain, Russia, Belgium, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Rest of APAC), South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Rest of South America), Rest of the World (Middle East, and Africa)

The magnetic stress sensor segment held a significant share in the ferrite magnetostrictive material market in 2020 and is growing at a CAGR of 8.2% during 2021-2026. Manganese-substituted cobalt ferrite magnetostrictive materials are promising candidate materials for use in magnetic stress sensors, due to their large magnetostriction and high sensitivity of magnetization to stress. Also, substituting manganese for some of the iron in the cobalt ferrite can lower the curie temperature of the material while maintaining suitable magnetostriction for stress sensing applications. Thus, ferrite magnetostrictive materials are often a preferred material of choice for the production of magnetic stress sensors.

The consumer electronics segment held the largest share in the ferrite magnetostrictive material market in 2020 and is growing at a CAGR of 13.7% during 2021-2026. For applications requiring torsion and stress, cobalt ferrites substituted with manganese are one of the most promising materials. The magnetostriction properties of these signposts for manganese-substituted cobalt ferrites can be implemented successfully in different directions. They can be used as friction, torsion, ultrasonic radiators, stress sensors as well as magnetic cores, as a gigantic material. Ferrite magnetostrictive materials are commonly used for sensing mechanical pressures and magnetic fields in magnetoelastic transducers. Ferrite magnetostrictive material possesses piezoelectric and magnetostrictive properties, which help it in converting both mechanical and magnetic energies into electricity. These characteristic features of ferrite magnetostrictive materials make it a promising material of choice for consumer electronic products manufacturing.

Asia Pacific region held the largest share in the ferrite magnetostrictive material market in 2020 up to 38%, due to increasing demand for consumer electronics and the healthcare sector in the region, for which ferrite magnetostrictive material is extensively required. The consumer electronics and the healthcare sector are flourishing in the region owing to the increasing population and increasing per-capita income. For instance, according to the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), the production of consumer electronic equipment increased from 33,511 million yen in January 2021 to 35,987 million yen in February 2021. According to the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), the healthcare market in India is anticipated to increase three-fold to Rs. 8.6 trillion (US$ 133.44 billion) by 2022. During the forecast period, the consumer electronics market segment is expected to show higher growth. The stable growth of the electrical and electronics industry is helped by the growth of the media and entertainment market. Furthermore, the penetration of household air conditioners, increasing revenue levels, and rising middle-class population temperatures in countries such as China and India are further adding the market growth in Asia-Pacific.

R&D on rare earth materials magnetostrictive materials has developed rapidly in recent years in the following areas, including mechanical properties of materials, solidification time of alloys, distribution of magnetic domain orientation, alloy properties in which the composition is in the morphotropic phase boundary, traditional methods such as high magnetic field application and stress treatment and more. For instance, in 2017, the Cobalt ferrite-based magnetostrictive materials for magnetic stress sensor and actuator applications were under research (US7326360) by Iowa State University Research Foundation. In January 2019, Henan Normal University invented and disclosed a method for preparing a cobalt ferrite magnetostrictive material by taking a waste lithium-ion battery as a raw material. The researchers continue to build the new magnetostrictive material alloy system of the rare earth giant, namely the TbDyFe system with the removal or inclusion of various elements.

Due to the bidirectional nature of the ferrite magnetostrictive materials, these materials are employed in the healthcare sector for both actuation and sensing applications. These materials can be commonly used in medicine as gas sensors and catalysts, and as a magnetoelectric transducer to wireless power medical implants. In March 2020, the Indian government approved the ‘Production-Linked Incentives (PLI) Scheme for Medical Devices 2020,' with a budget of Rs. 3,420 crore (US$ 464 million), under which segments of medical devices such as cancer care and radiotherapy medical devices, radiology and imaging medical devices, and anesthesiology medical devices will receive a 5% incentive on incremental sales over the base year 2019-2020 (Including catheters of cardiorespiratory category & renal care medical devices and implants including implantable electronic devices such as cochlear implants and pacemakers). Since March 2020, the FDA has received 28 applications from 23 medical device manufacturers. Such incentives are set to accelerate the growth of the ferrite magnetostrictive materials market.

Due to their use potential in sensors and actuators, Ferrite Magnetostrictive materials are present of considerable concern. Alloy in metallic glass Metglas 2826 MB amorphous alloys are the best-known candidates for magnetostrictive sensors because these amorphous alloys show large magnetostriction of saturation, the limited magnetization of saturation, low anisotropic force, and low coercion. The rare earth materials and ferrite magnetostrictive content may be threatened by these elements. Thus, this is the major factor that constrains the growth of the market.

Technology launches, acquisitions, and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the ferrite magnetostrictive material market. Ferrite magnetostrictive material market top companies are Morgan Advanced Materials plc, Kyocera Corporation, Hexcel Corporation, Nanophase Technologies Corporation, Kuraray Co., Ltd, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Henkel AG & Co. KGaA.