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Research and Markets: New Report Provides Top Level Market Fitment, Volume and Value Forecasts through 2016 for the Vehicle Clutch Industry

DUBLIN--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4c4bb6/global_market_revi) has announced the addition of the "Global Market Review of OE Gearbox Clutches New Updated Forecasts to 2016" report to their offering.

“Global Market Review of OE Gearbox Clutches New Updated Forecasts to 2016”

Since just-auto's last edition of automotive clutches was published in September 2008, the outlook for the automotive industry has significantly changed.

Given the current state of the industry, just-auto has completely revised its estimates and forecasts of steering systems' market volumes and values. This report now carries an addendum setting out our revised forecasts based on latest forecasting analysis for passenger car vehicle assembly in North America, Western Europe and Japan from 2005 through to 2016.

In addition, and given the sheer volatility of the global economy at present, we have set out expected, best-case and worst-case scenario data applied to the various systems. On balance, we believe this will provide readers with a more realistic framework for our component forecasts.

This report provides top level market fitment, volume and value forecasts through 2016 for the vehicle clutch industry.

New environmental and fuel efficiency legislation combined with major advances in electronics and manufacturing techniques have paved the way for a flood of new automated transmission technologies, including high-performance AMTs, dual-clutch transmissions (DCTs), CVTs for smaller vehicles and the highly innovative new technologies such as Torotrak and the Antonov Automatic Drive. The most likely winner (that will replace traditional automatics and boost market penetration of automated transmissions generally) will be the dual-clutch, pre-select DCT (dual-clutch transmission) concept, for its combination of refinement, efficiency, low cost and driving satisfaction. Manufacturers are predicting steady growth for DCT over the next few years.

Ralph Bast, vice president, passenger cars, Powertrain Division, ZF Sachs AG, told just-auto: In Europe, we expect a rising demand for DCT and a total market volume of 1.4-2m units per year. In North America, we also expect a wider penetration but only up to a maximum volume of approximately 1m units per year. In terms of CVTs, Norbert Indlekofer, president and CEO of LuK Group and president of Schaeffler Group Automotives Transmission Systems division, told us: We expect the market shares for these concepts to remain rather stable on an international basis. CVTs have still a huge market share of more than 30% in Japan and are on a stable level in Europe. The US and some Asian markets will be dominated by automatic transmissions. There is, however, some likelihood that double-clutch transmissions will gain their market share from AT applications.

In this, the fifth edition of this report, just-auto reviews the key market drivers for vehicle clutches, and updates the market analysis.

Following our market overview in Chapter 1, just-autos product fitment forecasts.

Chapter 2 predicts the market (by volume and value) worldwide (and by major car-producing region) for manual transmissions and AMTs. In this chapter there is are extensive Q&As taken from interviews conducted in August 2008. The author talked to Norbert Indlekofer, president and CEO of LuK Group and president of Schaeffler Group Automotives Transmission Systems division. And the author talked to Ralph Bast, vice president, passenger cars, Powertrain Division, ZF Sachs AG about the companys dual-clutch transmission and its market prospects.

Chapter 3 reviews the technical advances in clutches, defining the parts that make up the clutch itself as well as what we can expect to see in tomorrows cars.

Chapter 4 sets out brief profiles of the major manufacturers, namely Aisin Seiki, Exedy, FCC, LuK, Valeo, and ZF Sachs.

Key Topics Covered:

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The market
  • Market players
  • Aisin Seiki
  • Exedy Corp
  • FCC Co Ltd
  • LuK
  • Q&A with LuK
  • Valeo
  • ZF Sachs
  • Q&A with ZF
  • Market shares
  • World clutch market
  • European clutch market
  • Japanese clutch market
  • North American clutch market
  • Market forecasts
  • Chapter 3 Technical review
  • Defining the elements
  • Double-clutch transmissions
  • Chapter 4 Manufacturers
  • Aisin Seiki
  • Exedy Corp
  • FCC Co Ltd
  • Motorcycle clutches
  • Vehicle clutches
  • Other products
  • LuK
  • Valeo
  • ZF Sachs
  • Updated forecast: November 2009
  • Market forecasts
  • List of figures
  • List of tables

Companies Mentioned:

  • Aisin Seiki
  • Exedy Corp
  • FCC Co Ltd
  • LuK
  • Valeo
  • ZF Sachs

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