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Vials and Ampoules
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Vials and Ampoules Market Analysis and Global Outlook
MARKET OVERVIEW
Global Demand: $31 billion (2023E)
Global Demand CAGR: 7-8 percent (2024-2027)
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES
Challenges: Increasing consolidation levels in the industry
Opportunities: Significant demand hike in the market owing to COVID-19, expected to last another three years.
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The global vials and ampoules market has been significantly impacted by the pandemic, with demand doubling over the previous years. Demand would slow down by the second half of 2023, growing with a 7-8 percent CAGR until 2027.
Regional Demand Overview
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Increasing Capacity and Demand in the APAC market would result in the region becoming a key supply and demand hub over the next five years.
Global Market Size: Parenteral Containers
The global demand for parenteral packaging, which is forecasted at 11-12 percent CAGR in 2024-2027, being largely driven by increasing occurrence of chronic and lifestyle diseases, driving demand for biopharma and insulin. Increasing cost of parenteral containers owing to technology improvements would also add to value growth in the market.
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The parenteral containers market is forecasted to grow at about 11-12% CAGR over the period 2024-27, once the impact of pandemic completely subsides, driven by growing demand from biopharma and insulin
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Increasing demand from geriatric drugs and other chronic conditions such as arthritis would also continue to drive demand for parenteral containers.
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The industry has faced a gradual shift towards advanced drug delivery devices, resulting in slowdown in vials and ampoules and growing market for PFS and cartridges. But the pandemic has caused an increased growth in vials and ampoules. Investments into these categories has resulted in new technologies that could potentially offer better performance
Global Market Size: Vials and Ampoules
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The impact of COVID-19 would result in significantly higher demand for vials and vaccines until end of 2023, after which the market would grow by about 7-8% CAGR, driven by increasing demand from vaccines and biopharma.
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The Vials and Ampoules category has been the most impacted market from COVID-19, with demand from both COVID-19 treatments and vaccine manufacturing increasing significantly over the 2020-21. Demand from vaccine increased by about 100-150 percent during the period but has fallen back to almost pre-pandemic levels over the last year
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Demand hike from the pandemic and vaccine manufacturing will continue until the end of 2023, after which the vials and ampoules market will grow at about 7-8 percent driven by key downstream segments of biologics, and insulin
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Increasing investment into healthcare infrastructure by emerging markets in Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa would also result in increasing demand from vaccines segment over the next five years
Major Cost Drivers : Vials and Ampoules
Raw Materials
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Glass raw material prices are expected to witness an increase of 5-8 percent over the next 12 months, owing to growing supply-demand gap in key raw materials, such as tubular glass, silica and soda ash.
Conversion Cost
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Increasing energy expenses in Europe and Asia, owing to the energy crisis in the regions, has led to increased conversion costs. Conversion costs are forecasted to increase by an additional 2-3 percent over the next 12 months.
Freight and Packaging
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Freight charges are expected to continue to increase, especially in Europe and North America, over the next year. Packaging costs would remain stable, with small fluctuations of about 2 percent.
Fixed Costs
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Fixed and Indirect costs will continue to increase, owing to higher cost pressure and increasing utility expenses for container manufacturers.
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The report provides information on the cost breakup, supplier analysis and key profiles, SWOT analysis and critical performance indicators of suppliers like SCHOTT AG, Gerresheimer, Nipro, etc. It lists out the industry drivers and constraints, key trends and innovations in the Vials and Ampoules Market and Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of the developed and emerging regions.
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