Rapid Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry Creates Huge Demand for the Chromatography Systems

Published On: March 2017

Global Chromatography Systems Market Analysis, Trends & Forecast to 2022

Chromatography Systems Market Information

The global chromatography systems market is growing at the CAGR of around 5.5% and is expected to reach approximately $11.5 billion by the end of the forecast period that is 2022. The largest segment of the chromatography systems market is liquid chromatography which is expected to grow past $6 billion by the end of the forecasted period i.e. 2022. Such high growth of this market is majorly attributed to factors such as increased use of the chromatographic techniques in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, development of the new biologic drugs, development of the new formulations, increasing government funding and support for the research and development. Apart from these, there are certain factors such as continuous development of the novel techniques in chromatography by the existing market players, increasing research and healthcare expenditure in the developing countries such as India, and rising adoption of the chromatographic techniques in the low economy countries all around the world has impacted positively on the growth of the chromatography system market.

Chromatography Systems Segmentation Analysis

The global chromatography systems market has been majorly segmented on the basis of; types, end-users, and geographic regions.
Chromatography Systems


The global market for chromatography systems comprises of various type which include gas chromatography, liquid chromatography which includes high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), ultra high pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC), and low pressure liquid chromatography (LPLC), and other types which includes affinity chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, column chromatography, and thin layer chromatography. The liquid chromatography is the most used type and the largest segment of the chromatography systems market. The liquid chromatography is majorly used for the applications such as purification of proteins, DNAs, immunoglobulin, monoclonal antibodies, plasmid, enzymes etc. Besides that, chromatography systems have been proved useful in various industries and sectors. The major users of the chromatography systems include pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, hospital and research laboratories, agriculture and food industry, and others.

Rapid growth in the pharmaceutical industry and the demand for the new drugs has boosted the demand for the separation techniques. Currently more than 60% of the analysis in the world is done by the chromatographic techniques. The use of the chromatography systems has increased in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Chromatographic techniques are also used in the hospitals and research laboratories for the analytical purposes including the separation of the contents of the sample from patient or other sources. Chromatography systems are also playing important part in the food industry and the agriculture sector. Some of the other areas where the chromatographic techniques are used are cosmetic industry, environment protection organizations, and petrochemical industry etc.

Chromatography Systems Regional Analysis

Globally, North America holds the largest share of more than 35% of chromatography market and is expected to be the leading market during 2016 to 2022. North America market for chromatography systems is projected to mint more than $4.5 billion by the end of 2022. This large share is majorly attributed to, growing adoption of chromatographic techniques, rapidly growing pharmaceutical industry, increase in the need for the new formulations and increasing demand of the new drugs, some of the key factors driving the growth of this market. 


U.S Electric Liquid Chromatography Systems, Import (Unit), 2012-2016

U.S Electric Liquid Chromatography Systems 
Source: Secondary Research, and MRFR Analysis


European market is also expected to exhibit strong growth due to the presence of the existing established players which are aiming to introduce innovative new technologies in order to expand the business. Asia-Pacific region is expected to witness the fastest growth in the near future. Growing healthcare and life-sciences industry, increased adoption of chromatographic techniques in developing countries, growing healthcare infrastructure in low income economies are the key drivers creating rewarding growth opportunities in this region. Furthermore, increasing foreign investments, growing government support, is expected to continue the growth of this market over the forecast period; that is from 2016 to 2022.

Companies are increasingly aware that the range of benefits provided by chromatography systems offers solutions for many types of industries, all over the world. There are plenty of large and small market players which operate in this market all over the globe. The major participants of this market are Agilent Technologies, Apex Chromatography Pvt. Ltd., Apix Analytics, Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., GE Healthcare, GL Sciences Inc., JASCO Inc., Novasep Holding S.A.S., OI Analytical/Xylem Inc., PAC L.P., Pall Corporation, PerkinElmer Inc., Phenomenex Inc., QUADREX CORPORATION, Shimadzu Corporation, Siemens Industry Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., WATERS, and others.

MRFR Analyst View

Chromatography systems market is observed to be the rapidly growing market. Chromatography is currently the most commonly used separation technique in the pharmaceutical industry. With the developing pharmaceutical industry in the developed and developing countries, the demand for chromatography systems is expected to boost in the near future. The development of the innovative and novel chromatographic techniques by the existing big market players has been a crucial factor in growth of this market. Companies such as Agilent Technologies, Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., and WATERS has dominated the market in recent years. However, the high cost of the systems and the maintenance cost is bit of an issue causing the hindrance in the chromatography systems market. Big market players can make an effort to reduce the costs of the systems in order to cater even to the small economy countries all around the world.

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