Optical Brighteners Market Research & Emerging Trends Report to 2015

Optical Brighteners Market Current Trends, Size, Share, Industry Analysis,

Competitive Intelligence, Growth, Opportunities and Forecasts To 2015

Optical brighteners are also known as fluorescent lighting agents, fluorescent whitening agents

or optical bighting agents. These are the chemical compounds that absorb light in violet and

ultraviolet regions of the elctromegnetic spectrum. Phosphoresce emission is a long-lived period

of light emission unlike fluorescent emission which is short lived. Optical brighteners minimize

the amount of yellow light and to enhance blue light to make things appear whiter.

Optical brighteners improve the lightness and offset the yellow cast.

It also absorbs the invisible ultraviolet light. In addition, these are mainly virtual colorless

compound and aren’t readily bioaccumulate and biodegradable. This make them posing for

potential hazard to aquatic life. European Ecolabel Commission on criteria for laundry agents

stated that optical brighteners go through photo degradation. Also, several metabolites may be

produced that are not yet recognized.

Major applications in the market are in printing inks, manufacture of paper, textiles, cosmetics

and paints. In addition, they are also used in some interesting ways like assisting with medical

diagnostics procedures, detecting waste water leakage and marinating crops as biopesticides. For

making clothes appear cleaner, Brighteners are usually added to laundry agents. Chinese optical

brighteners industry is likely to experience high growth owing to the increased demand of paints

segment in the region.

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Based on geography, the overall market is segmented in RoW, North America, Asia-Pacific and

Europe. Over the past few years, Europe led the market for optical brighteners. Although, In

terms of value and volume, Asia Pacific is projected to...