Defoamers Market Set to Grow 3.35 Billion USD By 2020 1 | Page 3

Application Brief:
Defoamers are Specialty Chemicals used in various industries like pulp and paper,
oil & gas, textiles, pharmaceuticals, detergents, lubricants, food & beverage and
others to control foam generated during the production process. It increases the
efficiency of the machines by destroying the excessfoam formed during the
production activity.
A defoamer causes the foam bubbles to coalesce in order to reduce or
completely eliminate them. Defoamers are used in an eclectic mix of applications.
The usage of defoamers in all the applications is at the production stage
predominantly. Hence if there are fluctuations in the end user industry, it directly
impacts the defoamer used in that particular industry; for example, paints and
coatings industry is growing very rapidly due to humongous demand from the
construction sector in APAC region, and defoamers are used in paints and
coatings during its formulations.
But in case of the textile production in China, it has plummeted in 2015 and
hence the market of defoamers in textile applications in China has decreased.
These examples delineate the restraints for defoamer.

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