Press Releases

Face masks, previously used primarily as a tool for medical and industrial professionals, have become a necessary global consumer product because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In its newest report, “Mask Up: The Rising Need for Material Innovations in Face Masks,” Lux Research outlines the materials innovations needed to help increase production, make masks suitable for a consumer population, and improve sustainability.

Digital biomarkers will impact healthcare within the next year and are key to the future of medicine, finds new Lux Research report, “The Lux Take on the Future of Digital Biomarkers.”

The new report, “Foresight 2021: Top Emerging Technologies to Watch,” identifies and ranks 12 key technologies that will reshape the world. In addition to highlighting the 12 key overall technologies, for the first time ever, this year’s report ranks the top five technologies across five key industries: chemicals and materials, automotive, food and agriculture, electronics and IT, and energy.

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are poised to be the future of the auto industry. Looking toward the future of BEVs, a new report from Lux Research, “Electric Vehicle Lightweighting 2030,” analyzes the future of vehicle lightweighting and necessary BEV success factors over the next decade.

Supply chain and logistics have been massively disrupted by COVID-19, creating new challenges for retail and manufacturing operations worldwide. In our new report, our experts identify how sensors can be used to improve and modernize logistics across various industries to shore up global supply chain infrastructures.

While manufacturing companies have been investing in AI heavily, the results have been mixed. In our new report, we outline the challenges companies face when it comes to AI innovations and how they can change their innovation processes to improve their success rates with AI.

On a global scale, antibiotic overuse and resulting antimicrobial resistance is creating an urgent need to identify alternative animal health solutions. In a new report, “Beyond Antibiotics: The Future of Animal Health Alternatives,” Lux Research identifies seven alternatives to support the animal health industry.

In the new report, titled “The Food Company of 2050,” Lux analyzed startup trends, social norms, and corporate concerns to identify six megatrends shaping the food industry, outlining what food companies must do now to survive and thrive over the next 30 years.

Accelerated by COVID-19, emerging digital technologies, especially AI and IoT, are fundamentally changing the consumer journey in the consumer product market. Our new report, “The Digital Transformation of the Consumer Journey,” outlines how companies can apply digital technology to enhance the consumer journey for their benefit.

In a new report, “The Future of Carbon Fiber Composites,” Lux Research outlines major challenges and opportunities carbon fibers and CFRPs face and how standardization and recycling are enabling the CFRP market to grow to a $64 billion industry by 2030.