Zoom Zone Showcase Industry Quick Facts:

Automotive

• By 2006, 27% of car weight will be advanced materials

• Estimated 5.4% growth per year in automotive advanced material through 2006

• $275 Billion to be spent on advanced materials by 2010

Chemicals:

• Chemical advances lead directly to advances in other fields (i.e. Plastics, ceramics, coatings)

• 9% growth in advanced ceramics demand through 2007

• Chemical and materials in compound semiconductors predicted to double from 2002 to 2007

Textiles:

• Value added textile shipments to grow to $2.6 Billion by 2007

• Demand to grow at 2.0% per year

• Increasing need for waterproof, stain and wrinkle resistant, and germproof materials

Optics

• More than $50 billion industry per year

• 70% of the nation’s fiber optic lines are within driving distance of Anderson

Plastics

• Corn based plastic polymers that are less harmful to the environment plans to bring in $10 million in revenues by 2009

• Interconnects many different industry clusters

Defense

• Ceramic armored plating for reduced-weight protection of vehicles

• Toxicity sensors that reveal chemical exposure

Biotechnology:

• Soft-tissue implants to promote growth and repair

• Bioanalytical methods to identify biologically important molecules

Packaging:

• $100 billion industry, led by fastest growth in flexible packaging

• Clemson the only school in the southeast to offer undergraduate packaging science

• Over 95% of funding for Clemson packaging research comes from industry