Frost & Sullivan: Growth of Beverage Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Stokes Demand for ACS

Frost & Sullivan: Growth of BeverageFrost & Sullivan: Growth of Beverage Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Stokes Demand for ACS PR Newswire CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec. 2, 2013 Awareness campaigns vital to beat back the competition from low- cost Asian imports The growing demand for beer, carbonated soft drinks and other beverages in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expected to expand the sub- region's beverage manufacturing sector between 2012 and 2019. In turn, the construction of production plants in Nigeria, Angola and Mozambique, and the refurbishment of existing production facilities translate to new installation orders for automation and control solutions (ACS). New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com), Analysis of the Automation and Control Solutions Market within Sub-Saharan Africa's Beverages Industry, finds that the market earned revenues of $23 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach $32.2 million in 2019. In terms of product types, the programmable logic controllers (PLC) segment is expected to account for most of the region's ACS market revenues, followed by distributed control system (DCS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), human-machine interface (HMI), and manufacturing execution system (MES). The SSA beverage market is beset with infrastructure and energy shortages, which impact the operational expenditure of the sub-region's manufacturing sector.