In the course of a worldwide increasing demand on environmental products as well as energy and resource efficiency clean technology gets an enormous weight. Environmental technology has developed, in view of the worldwide ecologic and economic challenges to a worldwide key branch with enormous growing rates. According to recent studies the volume of the world market is above 1.400 billion EUR. Until 2020 the total revenues in environmental technology are supposed to double to more than 3.200 billion EUR. In certain sectors like waste management and recycling Germany holds up to a quarter of the world market. The obligatory climate protection targets, the rapidly growing emerging markets (for instance the BRIC countries) as well as the further rising of the prices of raw materials can be seen as growth drift for the branch.
Especially Bavarian technology companies which belong to the sector`s market leaders in the branch, can open up great potentials for increasing the proprietary market position and through intensive innovation action sustainably positioning on this international growth market. The UMFIS database serviced by the Bavarian IHKs counts over 2.000 enterprises and institutions in Bavaria, that offer goods and services for environmental protection. Additionally 5.000 crafts enterprises are active in various ranges of environmental protection. Furthermore 5.000 crafts enterprises are operating in multifarious areas of the environmental sector. In Bavaria these are mostly small and medium sized businesses.
The Umweltcluster Bayern bundles the Bavarian competences in these fields:
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