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

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