Lead Market Size & Share 2019 - 2025

Market Size by Type (99.994%, 99.99%, 96%, Others), by Application (Construction, Plumbing, Batteries, Bullets & Shots, Solders, Others), Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook, Application Potential, Competitive Market Share & Forecast.

Report ID: GMI4339

Published Date: September 2019

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Lead Market Size

Lead Market size was worth over USD 25 billion in 2018 while the annual consumption is anticipated to exceed 13 million tonnes by 2025.

Lead Market

Growing consumption of lead acid batteries on account of accelerating demand from automotive sector will propel growth across the lead market. In addition, increasing demand for cost effective and reliable power supply across critical applications including hospital, commercial facilities and industries will augment the business landscape. In 2018, batteries accounted for over 75% of the global Pb consumption, making it one of the key applications influencing the business growth. Furthermore, growing adoption across data centers and telecom towers will further enhance the industry outlook. For instance, major data corporations have built data centers all over the world with Google owning 15 data centers in four continents while Facebook
owning nine centers.

Prevailing expansion of commercial and industrial facilities owing to strengthening economic growth across the developing regions will drive the business growth. Furthermore, robust investment toward improving the telecom network along with substantial expansion of data centers will positively enhance the industry outlook. The LABs are extensively used across these applications owing to low cost, large surge currents and power to weight ratio suitable for handling the massive energy output generated by swells of internet traffic.

Lead Market Analysis

The 99.99% lead grade was valued over 7 billion in 2018. These are widely used across several industries including the manufacturing and construction for roofing & flashing, soundproofing, X ray protection and others. The pure lead ingots are produced from re-melted ingots, raw bullions and lead scraps by pyro metallurgical process. The grade of lead is commonly produced by primary lead companies that hold about 40% of the global lead production.

Ongoing government focus toward improving the respective lead refining capacity and abilities will boost the demand for 96% grade. The key impurities found mixed with the metal include arsenic, selenium, tellurium, bismuth, antimony, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, and tin. In addition, the industry has specified restrictions on elements generating gas from lead-acid batteries. The key difference between the primary and secondary lead is that the recyclers do not remove silver and bismuth impurities during secondary refining process. As over 60% of the world’s lead production come from secondary (recycling) refining resulting in its dominating share over high purity grades.

Ongoing expansion of building infrastructure backed by government investment along with rapid development of commercial facilities across emerging economies will foster the lead demand across construction activities. The metal is used in making thin lead sheets majorly used as a construction material across chemical and other related industries. Other widely used applications include shower pans, building construction for roofing & flashing, gamma-ray & X-ray protection, and soundproofing. In addition, rapidly expanding service sector along with introduction of new manufacturing base across developing nations will further complement the industry outlook.

Plumbing based lead applications exceeded 700 thousand tonnes in 2018. Excellent physical properties including high malleability, resistance to corrosion, and flexibility will instigate the product demand. In addition, stringent government norms pertaining to the replacement and minimizing the use of Pb in pipe manufacturing owing to its dispersion in portable water supplies may impede the business growth. For instance, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a treatment technique regulation revised in 2007, that directs water authorities to follow lead and copper mandates with respect to the replacement of lead service lines, and regular water sampling.

India Lead Market By Type

Extensive secondary lead production across the U.S. and Canada owing to a large number of scrapped batteries along with robust expansion of data centers will propel the growth across North America. For instance in 2018, the NADC reported for about six largest data center leases of the year were signed across North Virginia racking up the records in the industry. The automotive sector is a major consumer of these batteries and directly influences the market dynamics. However, moderate decline in automotive sales coupled with closure of several smelter units over the past decade may have restrained business growth.

The Asia Pacific lead market is anticipated to grow over 2% by 2025. Abundant lead reserves coupled with surging secondary production across the region are the prime factors stimulating the business growth. As per analysis, China is a major driving force across the industry holding over 50% of the global lead consumption, however, stringent smelting restrictions have resulted in a substantial decline in primary production. Furthermore, favorable outlook across India and Australia coupled with presence of leading players of passenger cars, coaches, two-wheelers, and SUVs will augment the lead-based storage industry outlook.

Lead Market Share

Eminent players operating across the lead market include:

Korea Zinc
Henan Yuguang Gold Lead
Aqua Metals
Hindustan Zinc
Glencore
Nyrstar
BHP Billiton
Gravita India
Teck Resources
Doe Run
H.M.S Metal
Hemendra
Non-Ferrous Metals
Gorevsky GOK

Low cost manufacturing along with increasing investment toward research and development to minimize the lead emissions from batteries are the prime basis of industry rivalry. Furthermore, introduction of stringent regulations and standards toward minimizing the use of lead in defined applications including plumbing, solders paints and others have further intensified the competition.

Lead Market Industry Background

Lead is a nonferrous metal with extensive physical properties including high malleability, ductility, flexibility and has a comparatively low melting point than its counterparts. It is bluish-white in color and smudges to a dull gray color in the air exposure.

Authors: Kiran Pulidindi, Kunal Ahuja

Lead Market Scope

Lead Market Size
Lead Market Trends

Lead Market Analysis
Lead Market Share

Report Content

Chapter 1 Methodology & Scope

1.1 Methodology

1.2 Market definitions

1.3 Market estimates & forecast parameters

1.4 Data Sources

1.4.1 Primary

1.4.2 Secondary

1.4.2.1 Paid Sources

1.4.2.2 Public Sources

Chapter 2 Executive Summary

2.1 Lead market 360⁰ synopsis, 2014 – 2025

2.1.1 Business trends

2.1.2 Type trends

2.1.3 Application trends

2.1.4 Regional trends

Chapter 3 Lead Industry Insights

3.1 Industry segmentation

3.2 Industry landscape, 2014 – 2025 (USD Million)

3.3 Industry ecosystem analysis

3.3.1 Vendor matrix

3.4 Regulatory landscape

3.4.1 North America

3.4.1.1 U.S.

3.4.1.1.1 Clean Air Act Standards and Guidelines for the Metals Production Industry

3.4.1.1.2 Lead Laws and Regulations

3.4.1.1.3 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

3.4.1.1.4 Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992

3.4.1.1.5 Clean Air Act (CAA)

3.4.2 Canada

3.4.2.1 Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

3.4.2.2 Consumer Products Containing Lead Regulations, SOR/2018-83

3.4.3 Europe

3.4.3.1 EU

3.4.4 Asia Pacific

3.4.4.1 China

3.4.4.1.1 Lead & zinc Industrial Pollutant Emission Standards

3.4.4.1.2 Waste Battery Pollution Prevention Technology Policy

3.5 Innovation & technology landscape

3.6 Price trend analysis

3.6.1 By region

3.6.2 By grade

3.7 Global lead production, (2014 – 2025)

3.7.1 Global lead production, (2014 – 2025)

3.7.2 Global lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.8 Lead production, by region (2014 – 2025)

3.8.1 Global lead production, by region

3.8.1.1 Global lead production market share by region

3.8.1.2 Global lead revenue market share by region

3.8.2 U.S.

3.8.2.1 U.S. lead production

3.8.2.2 U.S. lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.8.3 Europe

3.8.3.1 Europe lead production

3.8.3.2 Europe lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.8.4 China

3.8.4.1 China lead production

3.8.4.2 China lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.8.5 Japan

3.8.5.1 Japan lead production

3.8.5.2 Japan lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.8.6 Rest of World

3.8.6.1 Rest of World lead production

3.8.6.2 Rest of World lead revenue, (2014 – 2025)

3.9 Market size by manufacturers (2014 – 2019)

3.9.1 Lead production by manufacturers (2014-2019)

3.9.1.1 Lead production by manufacturers

3.9.1.2 Lead production market share by manufacturers

3.9.2 Lead revenue by manufacturers (2014-2019)

3.9.2.1 Lead revenue by manufacturers

3.9.2.2 Lead revenue market share by manufacturers

3.10 Lead import-export trend, 2017

3.11 Global number of smelters installed

3.12 List of smelters with more than 15,000 ton lead annual capacity, by region

3.12.1 North America

3.12.2 Europe

3.12.3 Asia Pacific

3.12.4 Middle East & Africa

3.12.5 Latin America

3.13 List of key smelter manufacturers, by region

3.13.1 North America

3.13.2 Europe

3.13.3 Asia Pacific

3.13.4 Middle East & Africa

3.13.5 Latin America

3.14 Global lead reserves for leading countries

3.15 Global lead reserves by leading countries

3.16 Comparative analysis of primary lead and secondary lead

3.16.1 Primary Smelting

3.16.2 Secondary smelting

3.17 Industry impact forces

3.17.1 Growth drivers

3.17.1.1 Demand for Electric Vehicles & AGM Batteries

3.17.1.2 Energy storage application across datacenters & telecom industry

3.17.1.3 Ecosystem optimization across the automobile industry

3.17.2 Industry pitfalls & challenges

3.17.2.1 Stringent regulatory framework

3.18 Entry barriers

3.19 Growth potential analysis

3.20 Porter’s Analysis

3.21 Competitive Landscape, 2018

3.21.1 Strategy dashboard

3.21.1.1 Aqua Metals Inc.

3.21.1.2 Korea Zinc

3.21.1.3 Hindustan Zinc Ltd.

3.21.1.4 Glencore

3.21.1.5 Gravita India Limited

3.21.2 Company market share, (2014 – 2019)

3.22 PESTEL Analysis

Chapter 4 Lead Market, By Type

4.1 Lead market share by type, 2018 & 2025

4.2 99.994%

4.2.1 Global market from 99.994%, 2014 – 2025

4.3 99.990%

4.3.1 Global market from 99.990%, 2014 – 2025

4.4 96%

4.4.1 Global market from 96%, 2014 – 2025

4.5 Others

4.5.1 Global market from others, 2014 – 2025

Chapter 5 Lead Market, By Application

5.1 Lead market share by application, 2018 & 2025

5.2 Construction

5.2.1 Global market from construction, 2014 – 2025

5.3 Plumbing

5.3.1 Global market from plumbing, 2014 – 2025

5.4 Batteries

5.4.1 Global market from batteries, 2014 – 2025

5.5 Bullets & Shots

5.5.1 Global market from bullets & shots, 2014 – 2025

5.6 Solders

5.6.1 Global market from solders, 2014 – 2025

5.7 Others

5.7.1 Global market from others, 2014 – 2025

Chapter 6 Lead Market, By Region

6.1 Lead market share by region, 2018 & 2025

6.2 North America

6.2.1 North America market, 2014 – 2025

6.2.2 North America market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.2.3 North America market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.2.4 U.S.

6.2.4.1 U.S. market, 2014 – 2025

6.2.4.2 U.S. market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.2.4.3 U.S. market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.2.5 Canada

6.2.5.1 Canada market, 2014 – 2025

6.2.5.2 Canada market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.2.5.3 Canada market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.2.6 Mexico

6.2.6.1 Mexico market, 2014 – 2025

6.2.6.2 Mexico market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.2.6.3 Mexico market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3 Europe

6.3.1 Europe market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.2 Europe market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.3 Europe market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3.4 Germany

6.3.4.1 Germany market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.4.2 Germany market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.4.3 Germany market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3.5 UK

6.3.5.1 UK market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.5.2 UK market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.5.3 UK market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3.6 France

6.3.6.1 France market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.6.2 France market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.6.3 France market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3.7 Russia

6.3.7.1 Russia market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.7.2 Russia market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.7.3 Russia market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.3.8 Italy

6.3.8.1 Italy market, 2014 – 2025

6.3.8.2 Italy market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.3.8.3 Italy market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4 Asia Pacific

6.4.1 Asia Pacific market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.2 Asia Pacific market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.3 Asia Pacific market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.4 Japan

6.4.4.1 Japan market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.4.2 Japan market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.4.3 Japan market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.5 China

6.4.5.1 China market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.5.2 China market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.5.3 China market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.6 South Korea

6.4.6.1 South Korea market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.6.2 South Korea market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.6.3 South Korea market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.7 India

6.4.7.1 India market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.7.2 India market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.7.3 India market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.8 Australia

6.4.8.1 Australia market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.8.2 Australia market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.8.3 Australia market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.9 Indonesia

6.4.9.1 Indonesia market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.9.2 Indonesia market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.9.3 Indonesia market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.10 Thailand

6.4.10.1 Thailand market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.10.2 Thailand market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.10.3 Thailand market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.11 Malaysia

6.4.11.1 Malaysia market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.11.2 Malaysia market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.11.3 Malaysia market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.12 Philippines

6.4.12.1 Philippines market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.12.2 Philippines market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.12.3 Philippines market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.4.13 Vietnam

6.4.13.1 Vietnam market, 2014 – 2025

6.4.13.2 Vietnam market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.4.13.3 Vietnam market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5 Middle East & Africa

6.5.1 Middle East & Africa market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.2 Middle East & Africa market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.3 Middle East & Africa market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.4 Turkey

6.5.4.1 Turkey market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.4.2 Turkey market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.4.3 Turkey market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.5 Saudi Arabia

6.5.5.1 Saudi Arabia market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.5.2 Saudi Arabia market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.5.3 Saudi Arabia market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.6 Kuwait

6.5.6.1 Kuwait market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.6.2 Kuwait market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.6.3 Kuwait market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.7 UAE

6.5.7.1 UAE market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.7.2 UAE market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.7.3 UAE market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.8 Qatar

6.5.8.1 Qatar market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.8.2 Qatar market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.8.3 Qatar market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.9 Bahrain

6.5.9.1 Bahrain market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.9.2 Bahrain market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.9.3 Bahrain market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.10 Oman

6.5.10.1 Oman market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.10.2 Oman market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.10.3 Oman market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.11 Egypt

6.5.11.1 Egypt market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.11.2 Egypt market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.11.3 Egypt market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.5.12 South Africa

6.5.12.1 South Africa market, 2014 – 2025

6.5.12.2 South Africa market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.5.12.3 South Africa market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.6 Latin America

6.6.1 Latin America market, 2014 – 2025

6.6.2 Latin America market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.6.3 Latin America market by application, 2014 – 2025

6.6.4 Brazil

6.6.4.1 Brazil market, 2014 – 2025

6.6.4.2 Brazil market by type, 2014 – 2025

6.6.4.3 Brazil market by application, 2014 – 2025

Chapter 7 Company Profiles

7.1 Korea Zinc

7.1.1. Buisness Overview

7.1.2. Financial Data

7.1.3. Product Landscape

7.1.4. SWOT Analysis

7.2 Henan Yuguang Gold Lead Co., Ltd.

7.2.1. Buisness Overview

7.2.2. Financial Data

7.2.3. Product Landscape

7.2.4. SWOT Analysis

7.3 Aqua Metals, Inc.

7.3.1. Buisness Overview

7.3.2. Financial Data

7.3.3. Product Landscape

7.3.4. SWOT Analysis

7.4 Hindustan Zinc Ltd.

7.4.1. Buisness Overview

7.4.2. Financial Data

7.4.3. Product Landscape

7.4.4. SWOT Analysis

7.5 Glencore

7.5.1. Buisness Overview

7.5.2. Financial Data

7.5.3. Product Landscape

7.5.4. SWOT Analysis

7.6 Nyrstar

7.6.1. Buisness Overview

7.6.2. Financial Data

7.6.3. Product Landscape

7.6.4. SWOT Analysis

7.7 BHP Billiton

7.7.1. Buisness Overview

7.7.2. Financial Data

7.7.3. Product Landscape

7.7.4. SWOT Analysis

7.8 Gravita India Limited

7.8.1. Buisness Overview

7.8.2. Financial Data

7.8.3. Product Landscape

7.8.4. SWOT Analysis

7.9 Teck Resources

7.9.1. Buisness Overview

7.9.2. Financial Data

7.9.3. Product Landscape

7.9.4. SWOT Analysis

7.10 Doe Run

7.10.1. Buisness Overview

7.10.2. Financial Data

7.10.3. Product Landscape

7.10.4. SWOT Analysis

7.11 H.M.S Metal Corporation

7.11.1. Buisness Overview

7.11.2. Financial Data

7.11.3. Product Landscape

7.11.4. SWOT Analysis

7.12 Hemendra Metal Industries

7.12.1. Buisness Overview

7.12.2. Financial Data

7.12.3. Product Landscape

7.12.4. SWOT Analysis

7.13 Non-Ferrous Metals Inc.

7.13.1. Buisness Overview

7.13.2. Financial Data

7.13.3. Product Landscape

7.13.4. SWOT Analysis

7.14 Gorevsky GOK

7.14.1. Buisness Overview

7.14.2. Financial Data

7.14.3. Product Landscape

7.14.4. SWOT Analysis

Authors: Kiran Pulidindi, Kunal Ahuja

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Companies covered: 14

Tables & Figures: 467

Countries covered: 28

Pages: 285

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