Global Motor Starters Market Size Likely to Grow at a CAGR of 5.8% By 2034

Market Size and Growth

As per the Motor Starters Market size conducted by the CMI Team, the global Motor Starters Market is expected to record a CAGR of 5.8% from 2025 to 2034. In 2025, the market size is projected to reach a valuation of USD 7.8 Billion. By 2034, the valuation is anticipated to reach USD 12.8 Billion.

Overview

According to industry analysts at CMI, industries have the proclivity toward automation and digital integration that demands special types of starters, such as soft starters, hybrid systems, and intelligent controllers with monitoring features. The adoption is further supported by the need to protect equipment, reduce downtime, and increase motor life, especially in high-electricity-consuming sectors such as oil and gas, mining, and power generation. Rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region significantly nurture global demand, and the North American and European markets maintain steady growth, driven by modernisation and replacement requirements.

The government policies towards sustainability and electrification, and operational safety, also promote such uptake of starters. Also, the expanding end-use sectors, such as water treatment, food & beverages, and commercial buildings, keep the application alive. In the midst of these drivers, motor starters turn out to be the nuts and bolts of global industries; thus, they have the strongest potential for further expansion over the long term.

Key Trends & Drivers

• Industrial Automation Adoption: The growth factor assumes the transition toward automation within manufacturing, processing, and utilities. Since automated systems require advanced motor starters with overload protection, smooth starting, and PLC integration, the trend sustains demand for intelligent starters across different sectors.

• Energy Efficiency Mandates: The International rise in pressure on pursuing sustainability has accentuated the need for the installation of energy-efficient solutions. Both soft and hybrid starters minimise energy losses and motor wear and meet efficiency mandates such as the EU Ecodesign Directive, creating a favourable ambience for demand.

• Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies: Rapid electrification projects, water treatment schemes, and industrialising growth in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa regions together provide steady demand for both low-cost and advanced motor starters, laying out opportunities for the long term.

• Technological Advances: The incessant innovation keeps changing the market, where starters integrated digitally with IoT provide predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics, and energy monitoring, thus speeding up the adoption in new-age industrial plants.

• Pressure on Price Competitiveness: The advanced beginner is increasingly accepted; unaffordability limits the scope in price-sensitive markets. Manufacturers attempt to crack the issue by manufacturing and crafting modular solutions at affordable prices.

• Replacement and Retrofit Demand: Replacement of ageing equipment constitutes a major growth driver in mature markets such as North America and Europe. Industries increasingly opt for the replacement of older direct-on-line systems with advanced starters that promise higher efficiency, reliability, and compliance with regulatory standards.

Report Scope

SWOT Analysis

• Strengths: Due to its nature of ensuring safe and efficient motor operation across several industries, the motor starters market has benefited from this arrangement. Broad product availability from the cheaper DOL starters to the more advanced hybrid starters lets it be adopted on a wide scale. A set of global giants like ABB, Siemens, and Schneider Electric continues to keep the ongoing innovations, with global penetration expanding and a service network set up. IoT-enabled starters made digital means of working with enhanced monitoring and predictive maintenance. Asking for industries like oil and gas, utilities, and water treatment delivers money flow certainty, thus providing some resilience to short-term economic changes.

• Weaknesses: The high initial cost for advanced motor starters, such as soft and hybrid systems, is a barrier in price-sensitive markets. Installation and maintenance are technically complex enough to limit companies’ adoption in these smaller industries and developing regions. Fragmentation within the market, with both global giants and regional players, creates pricing pressure, which can erode profitability. Lack of awareness in developing markets about the long-term benefits of advanced starters also halts the uptake. Also, since they are less expensive, DOL and star–delta starters are still more prevalent, thereby actually blocking the transition toward smart motor control systems, regardless of efficiency or safety benefits.

• Opportunities: With rapid industrialisation going forward in the Asia-Pacific, Latin American, and African regions, there’s a very good chance for growth, especially under government-sponsored electrification and infrastructure projects. Growing regulatory focus on energy efficiency and sustainability will, in turn, boost demand for soft starters and hybrid systems. That is where IoT, cloud-based monitoring, and predictive maintenance turn into an absolute goldmine for further revenues from smart motor starters. Replacement demand in mature markets provides an opportunity for upgrades to newer, more energy-efficient systems. Besides, diversification into renewable energy projects, water management, and smart building infrastructure will widen the application scope for starters, offering abundant opportunities for big and local players to intensify their market penetration.

• Threats: VFDs, meanwhile, do compete hard with the market as they, apart from starting, provide higher speed control, thus causing less dependency on conventional starters. The volatility in raw material prices, especially copper and semiconductors, impacts the price for the manufacturers, thus bringing down margins. All these, tariffs, trade barriers, and factors disrupting the supply chain, stand as risk factors. Rapid technological changes may soon place conventional starters in the twilight zone, imposing the constant innovation strain on the company. Furthermore, in developing markets, the threat from counterfeiting or the presence of cheap products adverse to the established brand also poses immense challenges in guaranteeing quality and establishing customer trust for the long-term adoption by industries worldwide of competing starter technologies.

List of the prominent players in the Motor Starters Market:

• ABB Ltd.
• Siemens AG
• Schneider Electric SE
• Rockwell Automation Inc.
• Eaton Corporation plc
• Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Fuji Electric Co. Ltd.
• CHINT Group
• Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)
• Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd.
• WEG S.A.
• Hubbell Incorporated
• Lovato Electric S.p.A.
• BCH Electric Limited
• FANOX Electronic S.L.
• TECO Electric & Machinery Co. Ltd.
• Siemens Energy (for utilities segment)
• GE Industrial Solutions (acquired by ABB)
• Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd.
• Schneider Luminous Power Technologies (India focus)
• Others

The Motor Starters Market is segmented as follows:

By Type

• Direct-On-Line (DOL)
• Star–Delta Starters
• Soft Starters
• Reversing Starters
• Autotransformer Starters
• Hybrid Starters
• Other Specialised Starters

By End-User Industry

• Industrial Manufacturing
• Oil & Gas
• Mining & Metals
• Power Generation & Utilities
• Water & Wastewater Treatment
• Chemical & Petrochemical
• Pulp & Paper
• Food & Beverage
• Commercial Buildings
• Residential Applications

By Distribution Channel

• Original Equipment Manufacturer
• Aftermarket
• Direct Sales
• Distributor

Regional Coverage:

North America

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico
• Rest of North America

Europe

• Germany
• France
• U.K.
• Russia
• Italy
• Spain
• Netherlands
• Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

• China
• Japan
• India
• New Zealand
• Australia
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Rest of Asia Pacific

The Middle East & Africa

• Saudi Arabia
• UAE
• Egypt
• Kuwait
• South Africa
• Rest of the Middle East & Africa

Latin America

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Rest of Latin America