Chromatography reagents market worth $7.6 bn by 2018

The global chromatography reagents market, estimated at $4.598 billion in 2013, is poised to grow at a CAGR of 10.6% from 2013 to 2018, to reach $7.609 billion by 2018, according to a new report of MarketsandMarkets, the US-based market research and consulting firm. 

 

Increasing conferences on chromatography in Singapore and Malaysia; expansion of chromatography companies in China, India, Singapore, Vietnam, and Japan; prominent pharmaceutical companies outsourcing their drug discovery and development services to Asian (especially in China and India) are the factors that are fueling the demand for separation services and chromatography reagents in Asia.

 

North America is the largest chromatography reagents market. The large size of the North American chromatography reagents market can be attributed to augmented research activities for the development of drugs and biologics, increasing number of conferences, and growth in government investments. 

 

The global chromatography reagents market is categorised into three broad segments, namely, by type, by technique, and by end user. The chromatography reagents market by type is broadly categorised into silylation reagents, alkylation reagents, acylation reagents, ion-pairing reagents, solvents, buffers, and solid support for analytical applications. Chromatography reagents market by type for bioprocess/preparative applications is broadly categorized into solvents, buffers, and solid support. The chromatography reagents market by technique is categorized into column and planar chromatography reagents based on bed shape; gas, liquid, and supercritical phase chromatography reagents based on physical state of mobile phase; and adsorption, partition, ion-exchange, size exclusion, and affinity chromatography reagents based on separation mechanism. End users of the chromatography reagents are pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical & biotechnology industries, academics/government/research, food and beverage industries, hospitals/clinics, cosmetics industries, environmental agencies, nutraceutical companies, and others.

 

The major players in the chromatography reagents market include Agilent Technologies (US), Waters Corporation (US), EMD/Merck Millipore (US), Phenomenex Inc (US), Sigma- ldrich Corporation (US), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (US.), Bio-Rad Laboratories (US), GE Healthcare (UK), Tosoh Corporation (Japan), Pall Corporation (US), Life Technologies (US), VWR International LLC (US), W.R. Grace & Co (US), Becton Dickinson & Co (US), Regis Technologies (US), and Helena Laboratories (US).