COVID-19 Impact analysis

• COVID-19 pandemic has shut-down large number construction sites, power plants, technology advancement companies and others. This has hampered the growth of cement grinding aids market from the last few months and is likely to continue during 2021.
• COVID-19 has already affected the sale of cement grinding aids. In the first quarter of 2021 and is anticipated to cause a negative impact on the market growth throughout the year.
• The major demand for cement grinding aids was previously noticed from giant manufacturing countries including the U.S., Germany, Italy, UK, and China, which are negatively affected by the spread of the coronavirus, thereby declining the demand of cement grinding aids.
• Further, potential impact of the lockdown is currently vague and financial recovery of companies is totally based on its cash reserves. Key players of cement grinding aids market are expected to afford a full lockdown only for a few months, after which the players have to modify their investment plans. For instance, various players in the market halted their service activities for several weeks to reduce the expenses. Whereas few players also adopted employee lay-offs to sustain during the COVID-19 health crisis
• Cement grinding aids market are expected to focus on protecting their workforce, operations, and supply chains to respond toward immediate crises and find new ways of working after COVID-19. For instance, provision of sanitizers, maintaining social distancing, as well as ensuring the vaccination of every employee in the company can assist in promoting the health & safety of the workforce. 

Top Impacting Factors
The cement grinding aids market is segmented into ball mills, vertical mills and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) grinding. Among all these the balls mills are highly used by the cement manufacturers and it is the top driver of the market because of low installation cost and production cost.  Also, this type of mill is suitable for materials of all degree of hardness, and is suitable for batch and continuous operations.
Another important factor for the increase in the market growth for cement grinding aids is the government and private body expenditure in the infrastructure sector, as the population is growing all over the world the need for the commercial and household infrastructure is increasing.
The most important restraint for the market growth is COVID-19, as because of pandemic the processing units are getting closed, workforce are not allowed to gather, thus the sales of cement grinding aids has been reduced. In recent days the situation is getting better and the market has growing again.
Market Trends

• There is an acquisition in operating business divisions, CHRYSO SAS acquired RUREDIL S.p.a, an Italy-based company, which develops and produces concrete admixtures, cement additives, technical mortars.
• GCP Applied Technologies Inc. launched two cement additives, OPTEVA HE quality improvers and TAVERO VM grinding aids, to deliver higher-performing, lower cost cement production.
• Key players such as Ashtech India Pvt. Ltd, BASF SE, CHRYSO SAS, Ecmas Group, GCP Applied Technologies Inc., KMCO LLC, MYK Schomburg, PROQUICESA, Shalimar Tar Products, Sika AG, Thermax Global, and Unisol are arranging workshops for the workforce to educate them.

Key Segments Covered
Product Type:

• Amine-based Grinding Aids
•  Alcohol-based Grinding Aids
• Ether-based Grinding Aids    

Cement Type:    

• (Blended Cement
• Hydraulic Cement
• Portland Cement
•  Others 

End Users Type

• Construction
• Home Decoration
• Others

Region

• North America
  • U.S.
  • Canada
  • Mexico
• Europe
  • Germany
  • UK
  • France
  • Italy
  • Rest of Europe
• Asia-Pacific 
  • China
  • Japan
  • India
  • Rest of Asia-Pacific
• LAMEA
  • Latin America
  • Middle East
  • Africa

Key Benefits of the Report
This study presents the analytical depiction of the cement grinding aids market making industry along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with detailed analysis of the cement grinding aids market share.
The current market is quantitatively analyzed from 2020 to 2030 to highlight the cement grinding aids market growth scenario.
Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in the market. 
The report provides a detailed cement grinding aids market analysis based on competitive intensity and how the competition will take shape in coming years.