"The report provides data on the different segments of the market, which are based on the following criteria: 
- Applications (including consumer goods sector, machinery sector, metal fabrication sector, transportation sector, and other applications such as construction and woodworking)
- Backing material types (including cloth, cotton, fiber, paper, polyester, and others such as films)
- Coat types (including closed, open, and others coat such as semi-open coat)
- Grain types (including aluminum oxide, alumina zirconia, ceramic, silicon carbide, and others)
- Form (including belts, discs, sheets and rolls, wheels, and others such as polygons and strips)
- Geography (including APAC, Europe, North America, and ROW)."

"Many early-stage startup founders developing hardware products don't want to outsource jobs to places like China, but they don't know which local manufacturers are trusted and affordable.... We're seeing these startups leading the way on this. They don't want to go to China. They want to figure out how to do it here. It's a very exciting opportunity for startups in the Boston area to be a vanguard of that trend."
- Greentown Labs CEO and Executive Director Emily Reichert