Excipient Market Space
An excipient is basically all the inactive ingredients in your medications.
Market:
A report from Grand View Research states that the global excipient market is is expected to grow from about $4 billion US to $5.22 billion US by 2020. The reason for the growth is that an aging population is creating demand for pharmaceuticals as well as demand for more diverse excipients.
45% of the growth will come from polymers, such as lubricants, anti-adherents, fillers, diluents, binders, disintegrants and coating materials.
7% of the growth will come from sugars, such as trehalose, sucrose, Mmannitol, galactose, mannose, ribose and maltose
32% of the growth will occur in Europe.
An excipient is basically all the inactive ingredients in your medications.
Manufacturers:
Ashland
Avantor Performance Materials
BASF
BioSpectra
Clariant
Colorcon
Danisco
DFE Pharma
Eastman Chemical
EMD Millipore
Evonik Industries
FMC
Huntsman
JRS Pharma
Kerry
Lubrizol
Mallinckrodt
Meggle
P&G
Pfanstiehl
Roquette
Sensient