With most regions of the world excepting Europe, witnessing some sort of economic recovery in 2010, demand for glass fibers in virtually all end user applications has revived, according to a new report that presents an overview of the Glass Fibers industry. The just-released report has been uploaded by Reportlinker.com, an industry search engine that offers access to a large online collection of reports by industry, company and country.

The 667 page global market report covers the market for Glass Fiber product segments including Fiberglass / Glass Wool and Glass Fiber reinforcements. The report analyses the market in terms of volume consumptions in metric tons as well as value consumption in US$ dollars.

It highlights some of the primary factors that drove demand for fiberglass or glass wool insulation such as higher levels of activity in residential, commercial and industrial construction as well as refurbishment, tighter building codes with enhanced requirements for energy efficiency. Demand from the industrial sector also played a role, though to a lesser degree.

In geographical terms it notes that demand for glass fiber reinforcements was sustained by the emerging economies of Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe, with wind energy, though constituting a low volume market, expected to emerge as the fastest growing end use application for glass fibers with a CAGR of 14.4%, primarily fuelled by the Chinese wind energy market.

The report also includes a sector wise analysis of end-use applications for Fiberglass/Glass Wool.

An important feature is the 472 charts (with a data table and graphical representation for each chart) of the global market by geographic region, Product Segment and application area.

This report profiles 24 key global players and 97 major players across the North America – 20; Europe – 20; Asia-Pacific – 45; and Rest of World – 12. The profiles also include addresses, contact numbers and the website addresses.