Global Freeze Drying Equipment Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2029

Market Analysis and Size

Freeze drying is used for more than 30 categories of substances or materials. The process is suitable for a wide variety of applications, for conserving the appearances of the initial material (for  example--pharmaceutical products, milk), for preserving the original form (for instance-- taxidermy, or conserving archaeological finds or flowers), conditioning incomes (for instance-- freeze-dried fruit in yoghurt), biochemical analyses (for instance-- investigating trace biological substances in crops, slurries, soils).

Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the freeze drying equipment market which was USD 2.00 billion in 2021, would rocket up to USD 3.72 billion by 2029, and is expected to undergo a CAGR of 7.68% during the forecast period 2022 to 2029. The market report curated by the Data Bridge Market Research team includes in-depth expert analysis, patient epidemiology, pipeline analysis, pricing analysis, and regulatory framework.

Market Definition

Freeze drying, also known as lyophilisation or cryodessication, is a low temperature dryness process which includes freezing the product, lowering pressure, then eradicating the ice by transferal. Freeze drying involves freezing the material, then lowering the pressure and increasing the heat to allow the frozen water in the substance to vaporise (sublimate).

Report Scope and Market Segmentation

Freeze Drying Equipment Market Dynamics

Drivers

• Increasing demand for food preservation

Various food products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, herbs and culinary flavorings, ice creams, and coffee, are preserved using lyophilization technology. Foods that have been freeze-dried do not need to be refrigerated or chemically preserved, and can be reconstituted quickly and easily by simply adding water.

• Use of freeze-dried foods is increasing for astronauts and military personnel

As conventional drying methods have major disadvantages. For example--, the high temperatures used can cause chemical or physical changes in food products, and their overall superiority is not on par with freeze-dried nutrition products. Since these rewards, the usage of freeze-drying as a food preservation technique is cumulative across the globe.

Opportunities

• Loss of patent safety of several biologics

One of the primary contributors to the development of the freeze-drying market in the healthcare industry is the biologics market. Biosimilars are predicted to propel the biotechnology sector forward in the coming decade. This is due to the fact that numerous important biologics are projected to lose their patent protection in the future years. An cumulative number of biosimilars are being developed in the market as a cost-effective another for biopharmaceutical medicines for chronic disorders.

Restraints/Challenges

• Increasing utilization of another drying techniques in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries

Lyophilization is expensive, including high operational costs, high energy consumption, and lengthy processing time. Due to lyophilization systems' capital-intensive nature, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies are focusing on alternative drying technologies to reduce the global cost of products without compromising their quality.

• Spray drying has been identified as the primary alternative to freeze-drying

It is a one-step process to dry constituents with better scalability at lower costs with regards to the equipment, facility, and utilities. Besides, the drying cycle time for spray drying is meaningfully lower as associated to lyophilization, which decreases the operative costs for manufacturers. Precipitation, vacuum-microwave dryness, vacuum foam drying, glycerol, and distinctive freeze-drying are other changes for lyophilization.

• Difficulties in achieving the desired moisture levels and maintaining product quality

The appropriate level of moisture removal is frequently not accomplished during the lyophilization process; products are contaminated as a result of the presence of excessive moisture, which can pose certain risks to patients who are given these products.

This freeze drying equipment market report provides details of new recent developments, trade regulations, import-export analysis, production analysis, value chain optimization, market share, impact of domestic and localized market players, analyses opportunities in terms of emerging revenue pockets, changes in market regulations, strategic market growth analysis, market size, category market growths, application niches and dominance, product approvals, product launches, geographic expansions, technological innovations in the market. To gain more info on the freeze drying equipment market contact Data Bridge Market Research for an Analyst Brief, our team will help you take an informed market decision to achieve market growth.

COVID-19 Impact on Freeze Drying Equipment Market

Furthermore, with the sudden outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the urgency of testing, there is a rise in the application of freeze-drying equipment to encounter the demand for diagnostic kits. The growing focus of scholars on developing more classy processes that combine freeze drying technology with electron microscopy, biochemistry and sophisticated surgery is predicted to extra drive the market in the coming years.

Recent Development

• Martin Christ Gefriertrocknungsanlagen GmbH (Germany) and Elementar Americas will collaborate in 2020. (US). Martin Christ will serve as Elementar Americas' sales, service, and maintenance partner, distributing the company's product line across the United States.
• In 2019, Millrock Technology, Inc. (US) formed a partnership with Purdue University (US). Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics received a USD 750,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop real-time sensor technologies, computational modelling, and bioanalytical tools for closed-loop lyophilization as part of this partnership. Millrock provides the freeze-drying technology investigators are using for the NSF project at LyoHub in Purdue’s Discovery Park.

Global Freeze Drying Equipment Market Scope

The freeze drying equipment market is segmented on the basis of type, scale of operation and application. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyze meagre growth segments in the industries and provide the users with a valuable market overview and market insights to help them make strategic decisions for identifying core market applications.

Type

• Tray Style Freeze Dryers
• Manifold Freeze Dryers
• Rotary Freeze Dryers

Scale of Operation

• Industrial Scale Freeze Dryer
• Pilot Scale Freeze Dryer
• Laboratory Scale Freeze Dryer

Application

• Food Processing and Packaging
• Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology
• Biomedical Engineering
• Others

Freeze Drying Equipment Market Regional Analysis/Insights

The freeze drying equipment market is analysed and market size insights and trends are provided by country, type, scale of operation and application as referenced above.

The countries covered in the freeze drying equipment market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America.

North America dominates the freeze drying equipment market because of the strong base of healthcare facilities, strong occurrence of major players in the market and rising number of research activities in this region.  

Asia-Pacific is expected to be the most promising regional market during the forecast period 2022 to 2029. The region is projected to command over one fourth of the overall revenue by 2025. The growth of the region can be attributed to the increasing establishment of pharmaceutical companies in India and China.

The country section of the report also provides individual market impacting factors and changes in regulation in the market domestically that impacts the current and future trends of the market. Data points like down-stream and upstream value chain analysis, technical trends and porter's five forces analysis, case studies are some of the pointers used to forecast the market scenario for individual countries. Also, the presence and availability of global brands and their challenges faced due to large or scarce competition from local and domestic brands, impact of domestic tariffs and trade routes are considered while providing forecast analysis of the country data.   

Healthcare Infrastructure growth Installed base and New Technology Penetration

The freeze drying equipment market also provides you with detailed market analysis for every country growth in healthcare expenditure for capital equipment, installed base of different kind of products for Freeze Drying Equipment market, impact of technology using life line curves and changes in healthcare regulatory scenarios and their impact on the Freeze Drying Equipment market. The data is available for historic period 2010-2020.

Competitive Landscape and Freeze Drying Equipment Market Share Analysis

The freeze drying equipment market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, global presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus related to Freeze Drying Equipment market.

Some of the major players operating in the Freeze Drying Equipment market are:

• GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
• Azbil Corporation (Japan)
• Tofflon (China)
• Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. (Italy)
•  SP Industries, Inc. (U.S)
• HOF Sonderanlagenbau Group (Germany)
• Labconco (U.S)
• Martin Christ Gefriertrocknungsanlagen GmbH (Germany)
• Millrock Technology, Inc. (U.S)
• OPTIMA Packaging Group GmbH (Germany)
• BÜCHI Labortechnik AG (Switzerland)
• Scala Scientific (Netherlands)
• Zirbus Technology GmbH (Germany)
• Biopharma Process Systems Ltd. (UK)
• MechaTech Systems Ltd. (UK)
• Cuddon Freeze Dry (New Zealand)
• Freezedry Specialties, Inc. (U.S)
• Cryotec (France)
• Freeze Drying Systems Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Lyophilization Systems India Pvt. Ltd. (U.S)

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