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The increasing penetration and demand for pharmaceutical filtration products in developing countries offer lucrative growth and opportunities

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Steve Blade

“The future of pharma is about embracing technology and a much broader definition of  medicines’, which includes greater focus on prevention (driven by the growth of personal diagnostics via smart devices), digital health and digital medicines / therapeutics (for example, use of cognitive behavioural therapy chatbots for managing depression or apps that help diabetes patients monitor and manage their blood sugar levels). Smart pharma companies are making moves into these spaces to build partnerships with external players and internal capabilities.” said Paul Tunnah, founder and CEO of Pharmaphorum

 

Filters are mostly utilized in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) which are small molecule drugs. Variety of oral dosage products i.e. mouthwash, cough and intestinal medicine, in order to maintain the biological stability, use pharmaceutical filters. Particulate filtration in the 1 to 10-micron range is usually sufficient.

 

Biopharmaceuticals generate global revenues of USD 163 billion, making up about 20% of the pharma market. It’s by far the fastest-growing part of the industry with CAGR of 8% for the foreseeable future.  NYC-based Pfizer is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. In 2018, the company generated some 53.6 billion U.S. dollars in pure pharmaceutical sales.

 

Global pharmaceutical industry revenue rose from $390.2 billion in 2001 to $1.2 trillion in 2018. This revenue is predicted to expand at a 4–5% CAGR (down from the 6.3% CAGR observed for 2014–2018) to reach $1.5 trillion in 2023.

 

The pharmaceutical industry's lifeblood is R&D. On average, pharmaceutical companies spend 17% of revenues on research and development (R&D). Pharmaceutical companies are heavily reliant on research and development as their success is contingent on the development of new products. Out of the top 20 largest R&D spenders, pharmaceutical companies account for nearly half.

 

Microfiltration membrane is mostly used (with the market value of USD 2.38 billion in 2017) and the fastest growing among others (witnessing a CAGR of 9.0% during the forecast period) due to its implementation in the manufacturing of generic and biopharmaceuticals drugs. While MCE membrane filters accounted for largest revenue-grossing among all the filters due to its unique and advanced characteristics that are successfully implied on production, research and environmental testing in pharmaceutical industry.

 

How Could Global Pharmaceutical Filtration Market Addresses The COVID-19 Concerns?

A survey of healthcare industry professionals revealed 95% percent are concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on company performance, with those from the Asian Pacific market expressing the highest levels of concern and 23% percent were also concerned about supply and demand gaps tied to the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

Drug discovery and manufacturing has traditionally been a global effort with China and India establishing themselves as main players in the global pharmaceutical supply chain. Since the surge of coronavirus cases in Wuhan, the pharmaceutical industry became worried that the decreased Chinese production capabilities would result in drug shortages – once again reiterating the global economy’s dependence on China. Initially the coronavirus was expected to hit the Asian markets the hardest; however, this is now changing, as China’s aggressive virus control strategies seem to have worked and India has a low case load, while the rest of the world is reporting more cases of infection.

 

The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in stock market turbulence, strict border controls and country-wide lockdowns, all taking their toll on the pharmaceutical sector and leading industry and governments to rethink drug supply chains.

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