Top Aircraft De-Icing Companies

Textron, UTC Aerospace Systems, and BASF are leading market players in the industry, investing in strategic alliances and product enhancement. This clearly shows that the market is reasonably concentrated. By improving glycol recycling systems and self-propelled spray booms, the market participants are making some strides towards achieving a more sustainable future. These relationships with the defense industry are in turn promoting adoption within nations such as Germany and the United States. There is also a shift of firms into the APAC regions, where they are making product-specifications to meet a range of climate-specific issues.

• Manta Aircraft is a start-up company founded in 2016, with its main work being the design of autonomous electric aircraft with a view to enabling air travel over urban and regional spaces. Perhaps its work will have an indirect impact on the industry even if it does not involve the aircraft de-icing market. This may be achieved by creating aircraft with efficient thermal systems that increase de-icing operations. Designing an electric and eco-friendly plane may also involve eco-friendly de-icing gear, thus eliminating the carbon footprint normally incurred by conventional de-icing techniques.

• ZeroAvia is a company established in 2017 and specializes in the design of hydrogen-electric planes to be used for commercial flights. There is a chance that ZeroAvia's innovations will indirectly affect the aircraft de-icing industry, even though its focus is environmentally friendly aviation technology. As ZeroAvia develops more environmentally friendly aircraft solutions, it is probable that the company will also integrate new de-icing technologies that are eco-friendly. This will enable them to maintain efficiency and lower environmental degradation, which is in line with the overall sustainability push in aviation that they are undertaking.

Top Player’s Company Profile

• Air Canada

• Vestergaard Company

• Equipmake

• Vestergaard Company

• UTC Aerospace Systems (now Collins Aerospace)

• Kilfrost Ltd.

• JBT Corporation

• Global Ground Support LLC

• LyondellBasell Industries Holdings B.V.

• Inland Technologies

• Cryotech Deicing Technology

• Radiant Aviation Services

• Safran SA

• John Bean Technologies Corp

• Dow Inc.