May 2025
The global chromatography accessories and consumables market size is calculated at USD 5.19 in 2024, grew to USD 5.61 billion in 2025, and is projected to reach around USD 11.27 billion by 2034. The market is expanding at a CAGR of 8.04% between 2025 and 2034.
Metric | Details |
Market Size in 2025 | USD 5.61 Billion |
Projected Market Size in 2034 | USD 11.27 Billion |
CAGR (2025 - 2034) | 8.04% |
Leading Region | North America |
Market Segmentation | By Product, By technology, By end users, By Region |
Top Key Players | Agilent Technologies, Waters Corporation, Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer Inc, Bruker Corporation, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Merck KGaA, Avantor, Hitachi, Restek Corporation, Gilson Inc |
Chromatography accessories and consumables are widely applied to distinguish, determine, and examine complex mixtures in numerous industries. Chromatography has versatility, used in various areas like pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, food industries, and pesticides, in which it gives highly sensitive, reliable, and robust results. Nowadays, chromatography is operated with the aid of increased use of automation, compactness, and integration of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. Furthermore, chromatography has been focused on greener practices, economical, and multidimensional approaches.
The chromatography accessories and consumables market, with the aid of AI, contributes to revolutionary action as they conduct automated tasks, enhance data analysis, and produce high-efficiency and more reliable separation methods. This gives a rapid method development, minimizes manual errors, and increases the quality of output, which leads to market growth.
Accelerating Research and Development Activities
In pharmaceutical and technological industries, due to the rising advancements in technologies like HPLC and UPLC, as well as hyphenated techniques such as LC-MS, GC-MS, are accelerating R&D activities, which are assisting in promoting drug discovery and quality analysis. The chromatography accessories and consumables market is driven by the enhanced use of chromatographic techniques in various departments of pharmaceutical companies, like quality control, R&D, impurity analysis, and bioanalysis, which leads to highly pure, efficacious, and safe products.
Expensive Chromatography Consumables and Complicated Techniques
Expenses of chromatography consumables are a major challenge in the market, as they are consumed in high-quality columns, reagents, solvents, and other consumables, which also require high maintenance. Furthermore, complicated techniques demand highly qualified and skilled professionals, which is raising difficulties in organizations as they are lacking in trained personnel.
Rising Demands for Eco-Friendly, AI-Integrated Techniques
In pharmaceutical and food safety companies, increased demand for eco-friendly and automated chromatography solutions, leading to numerous opportunities, where they are incorporating economical lab practices by reducing solvent use and utilizing reusable chromatographic solutions. Also, as AI produces increased analysis accuracy and efficiency, and which is uses automation to simplify the workflows.
By product type, the columns segment dominated in 2024 and is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period. In the chromatography accessories and consumables Market column is playing a vital role as it separates and analyzes the various mixtures into single components with the support of a pump, injector, and detectors. In gas chromatography, the column plays a significant role in the petrochemical industry, which has better activity with volatile substances, to achieve superior and reproducible results.
By technology, the liquid chromatography segment led in 2024, and is anticipated to grow at the fastest rate during the forecast period. Due to advanced automated sample preparation and time-consuming processes, the workflows are being simplified and also reducing the human workforce. Moreover, LC systems are providing energy conservation and are more efficient by focusing on the minimization of consumables and operating expenses.
By end users, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology segment led in 2024, and is predicted to grow at the fastest rate in the upcoming years. In pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, rising drug discovery, enhanced investments in the R&D department are driving the market growth. Also, chromatography is widely used in drug development, quality control, to examine the raw materials, intermediates, and to ensure the purity, consistency, stability, and quantity of the end product.
North America held the largest share in 2024 as this region is committed to the firm regulatory considerations with enhanced demand for analytical tools, robust pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, vigorous R&D infrastructure, as well as increased investments of the government in scientific advancements of the market.
In the US, the market is witnessing vigorous growth, impelled by factors such as enhanced drug development, metabolic research, and the contribution of governments in the pattern of funds and grants, direct and indirect financial investments. The US market is estimated to be with liquid chromatography, which has the largest share and is growing with other technologies like gas chromatography. In the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, the US market is experiencing an increased demand for chromatography accessories and consumables as they are developing their R&D departments, drug discovery processes, as well.
In Canada, the market is facing significant growth, in which High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the commonly employed chromatography technique because of its high versatility, accuracy, reliability, and automated development. HPLC techniques in Canada have been widely used in pharmaceutical analysis, food and beverage testing, environmental, and drug development processes.
Asia Pacific is estimated to grow fastest in the upcoming years. In biomedical research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical production, there is a rising demand for analytical instruments and consumables is playing a significant role in the Asia Pacific market. Also, in Asia Pacific, biosimilar production has been enhanced, in which chromatography techniques are widely used in quality control and analysis. Recently developed biosimilars are aflibercept biosimilars (e.g., FYB203), ustekinumab biosimilars (e.g., YESINTEK, Imuldosa, Otulfi), and others.
In China, the market is facing accelerating growth, which is fueled by rising food safety concerns, pharmaceutical production, and the government's encouragement to promote various analytical research. In the last few years, China has undergone advancements in chromatography, with increased focus on optimization of instrument performance, simplified calibration activities, and applications in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and food safety. Particularly, they include HPLC flowmeters with rapid calibration, UHPLC instruments for TCM analysis, and new triple quadrupole mass spectrometers.
In the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, advanced chromatography techniques are widely used, leading to market growth in India. Although India is becoming self-dependent in pharmaceutical manufacturing, particularly in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), which is escalating the use of chromatography systems, facilitating the robust analysis, quality assurance, and lowering the dependency on imports, is boosting new API productions in India.
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In Europe, the market is growing significantly, and has made a robust target on liquid chromatography and increased demand for novel solutions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The growth is impelled by various factors like advancements in the integration of AI, increased research and development, enhancements in proteomics, and advancements in chromatographic techniques.
The UK market is experiencing significant growth, influenced by the rising need from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, along with regulatory considerations, and advances in technology. It has been anticipated that the market will grow continuously in the HPLC technique. In other academic institutions, clinical diagnostics also play a major role in the demand for the accessories and consumables of chromatography, contributing to the market growth.
The Germany market is facing thriving growth, which is fueled by the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, developing chromatographic methodologies, and regulatory considerations on laboratory testing activities. The market is impacted by the advances in various technologies, economic concerns, and globalization. For laboratory productivity and reliability, the market has increased demand for efficient columns, automated analytical instruments, and hyphenated methods like LC-MS, GC-MS.
In October 2024, Sartorius (Göttingen, Germany) is launching Sartobind® Rapid A Lab, a novel creation in a portfolio of laboratory separation technologies. Product Manager for Lab Chromatography at Sartorius, John Cashman, replied that designing potential technologies serves time consumption and increased productivity, and in the end rise in commercial production from molecule development at the early research stage. (Source - BioTechniques)
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