An environmental chamber, also known as a climatic or climate chamber, is an enclosure used to test the effects of specified environmental conditions on biological items, industrial products, materials, and electronic devices/components in industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, telecommunications and electronics, and medical and pharmaceuticals. For instance, in the aerospace and defense industry, products/components such as guidance systems, aviation electronics, batteries, and cables and harnesses to satellites are tested for environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, thermal shock, salt and spray, vibration, and altitude. ------------------------- 1. Micromarkets are defined as the further segments and subsegments of the environmental test chambers market. 2. Core competencies of companies are defined in terms of their key developments and key strategies adopted to sustain their position in the market.

Visionary leaders are the leading market players in terms of new developments such as product launches, innovative technologies, and the adoption of growth strategies. These players have a broad product offering that caters to most of the regions globally. Visionary leaders primarily focus on acquiring the leading market position through their strong financial capabilities and their well-established brand equity.

Dynamic Differentiators are established players with very strong business strategies. However, they have a weaker product portfolio compared to the visionary leaders. They generally focus only on a specific type of technology related to the product.

Innovators in the competitive leadership mapping are vendors that have demonstrated substantial product innovations as compared to their competitors. The companies have focused on product portfolios. However, they do not have very strong growth strategies for their overall business, when compared with the visionary leaders.

Emerging companies have niche product and service offerings. Their business strategies are not as strong as that of the established vendors. The emerging vendors include the new entrants in the market, emerging in terms of product portfolio and geographic reach, and require time to gain significant traction in the market.