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By Eric Langer, president and managing partner, BioPlan Associates, Inc.

Disposables being developed meeting industry's requirements
Single-use devices are in hot demand as the biopharma industry looks for new, more innovative products. In fact, disposables make up the top 3 of 20 areas of new product development interest this year. According to our 8th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturers. [1] disposable product: purification, were cited by 37.9% of global biopharma respondents. This was up by nearly 10% from last year's study.

In addition, more than one-third of the 350 qualified global biomanufacturers we surveyed were looking for better disposable probes, sensors, etc. (37%). Disposable products: bags, connects, etc. followed with 36.5% of respondents. Improvements in disposable bioprocessing equipment are being demanded by end-users who want innovation. For example, 29.2% wanted better single-use bioreactors, compared with only 6% looking for innovations in stainless steel equipment.

Willing to Pay for Improvements
Biomanufacturing is relatively recession-proof and budget estimates from our study show; once again, that spending is up strongly for new technologies, capital equipment, and training, among 12 other areas tested. From our study, we believe this budget bump indicates a healthy continuation of investment and spending trends seen over the previous 3-4 years.

In our annual survey, responses from 100s of global, biomanufacturers/CMOs in 31 countries, and over 100 vendors to the industry show that technology, and productivity-related investments top the spending and budgets this year.

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