
CPhI: The time of the CMO is upon us as massive industry growth drives surge in outsourcing capacity
Contract manufacturers are having a moment, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by the folks at CPhI.
The organization’s annual report found that CMOs will account for four of the five top companies by manufacturing capacity in 2025. Dawn Ecker, a CPhI expert, predicts that the biologics manufacturing volume will grow 8% a year to that deadline, expanding from 2,700kL in 2020 to 3,900kL in 2025.
Nearly half of all capacity will shift from in-house manufacturing to CMOs and hybrid companies, her findings revealed, and if trends stay consistent, the big-dog contractors will have the largest capacity volume. Those four are Korea’s Samsung Biologics, Switzerland’s Lonza, WuXi Biologics, and Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies.
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