Key Takeaways
- In 2023, the global process industry market size reached approximately $5.8 trillion, driven by demand in chemicals, oil & gas, and pharmaceuticals
- The chemical manufacturing segment of the process industry accounted for 35% of total process industry revenue in 2022, equating to $2.03 trillion globally
- Process industry growth rate in Asia-Pacific was 4.2% CAGR from 2018-2023, outpacing global average of 3.1%
- Process industry invested $450 billion in digital transformation technologies like AI and IoT in 2023
- Adoption of Industry 4.0 in process industries reached 65% by 2023, up from 40% in 2019
- Predictive maintenance using AI reduced downtime by 50% in 70% of chemical plants surveyed in 2023
- Fertilizer production in process industry totaled 200 million metric tons globally in 2022
- Global ethylene production capacity in petrochemical process industry stood at 220 million tons per year in 2023
- Cement production worldwide reached 4.1 billion metric tons in 2022, with China accounting for 56%
- Process industry CO2 emissions totaled 12 Gt in 2022, 25% of global industrial emissions
- Water usage in process industries averaged 20 m³ per ton of product in chemicals sector in 2022
- Renewable energy share in process industry operations reached 18% globally in 2023
- Global process industry employed 350 million people directly in 2022, representing 12% of manufacturing workforce
- Chemical process industry workforce in the US was 550,000 in 2023, with 40% engineers/technicians
- Oil & gas process sector employed 10.3 million globally in 2022
In 2023 the global process industry hit $5.8 trillion, led by chemicals and Asia growth.
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