The pharmaceutical segment of the sedimentation/centrifugation market has been steadily increasing at a rate faster than the industry itself. As biotechnology has moved from the pilot to production stage, the need for separation equipment has increased substantially. Disk centrifuges are the leading product with basket centrifuges close behind. McIlvaine forecasts for world sales this year to the pharmaceutical industry (as they appear in Sedimentation/Centrifugation World Markets) are as follows:
WORLDWIDE INDUSTRY TOTALS