Pharmaceutical Starch is an abundantly available natural resource and preferred excipient for drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical solid dosage forms. It is commonly used as a filler, binder, or coating in the drug manufacturing industry.
There are many players in the market, Tereos, Cargill, Roquette, Visco Starch, Colorcon and others are playing important roles in Pharmaceutical Starch industry. Top 5 players occupied about 15.29% market revenue share in 2019, The market is not concentrated for now and is still to be dispersed.
Pharmaceutical starch is widely used as a binding and disintegrating agent for tablets, pills and granules, also used as filler for capsules. By application, Tablets is the largest consumer group, with consumption market share of 57.1% in 2019. Then followed by the Capsule which account for 22.3%.
There are many different types of Pharmaceutical Starch. Based on the major consumption types, the market can be segmented into: Corn Starch, Potato Starch and Others. Corn Starch is the most commonly used types and took 90.7% market share in 2019, while Potato Starch took 6.8% market share and Other types took 2.5% in 2019.
As for consumption market, revenue of Pharmaceutical Starch in United States took about 30.1% market share in 2019, which is the biggest consumption country in current market pattern. China ranks the second largest consumption country, with market share of 9.7% in 2019.
Report Scope
This report quantifies the global Pharmaceutical Starch market in terms of revenue (US$ million) and, where applicable, sales volume (MT), using 2025 as the base year and providing annual historical and forecast data for 2021–2032.
It standardizes definitions of Types and Applications, harmonizes vendor attribution, and presents comparable time series by company, Type, Application, and region/country, including indicative price bands (US$/MT) and concentration ratios (CR5/CR10).
The outputs are intended to support strategy development, budgeting, and performance benchmarking for brand owners, manufacturers, retailers, channel partners, and investors; data are structured with consistent units and fields to facilitate integration into internal FP&A and BI systems.
Key Companies & Market Share Insights
This section profiles leading manufacturers, combining 2021–2025 results with a 2026–2032 outlook. It reports revenue, market share, price bands, product and application mix, regional and channel mix, and key developments (M&A, capacity additions, certifications). It also provides global revenue, average price, and—where applicable—sales volume by manufacturer, and calculates CR5/CR10 and rank changes to support comparative benchmarking.
Pharmaceutical Starch Market by Company
- Tereos
- Cargill
- Roquette
- Visco Starch
- Colorcon
- Agrana
- Paramesu Biotech
- Shandong Liaocheng E Hua Pharmaceutical
- SPAC Starch Products (India) Limited
- Sanstar Biopolymers Ltd
- Ingredion
- Shandong Liujia
- Universal Starch-Chem Allied Ltd
- Hunan Er-Kang Pharmaceutical
- Jiangxi Yipusheng Pharmaceutical
- Shanxi Mr G Pharmaceutical
- Shivangan Food & Pharma
- Splenor Starch LLP
- Weifang Shengtai Medicine
- Taishan Jinantang
- Anhui Sunhere Pharmaceutical Excipients
Pharmaceutical Starch Segment by Type
- Corn Starch
- Potato Starch
- Others
Pharmaceutical Starch Segment by Application
- Tablets
- Capsule
- Granular Formulation
- Others
Pharmaceutical Starch Segment by Region
- North America
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- U.K.
- Italy
- Russia
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Poland
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Japan
- South Korea
- India
- Australia
- Taiwan
- Southeast Asia
- South America
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Colombia
- Middle East & Africa
- Egypt
- South Africa
- Israel
- Türkiye
- GCC Countries
Key Drivers & Barriers
High-impact rendering factors and drivers have been studied in this report to aid the readers to understand the general development. Moreover, the report includes restraints and challenges that may act as stumbling blocks on the way of the players. This will assist the users to be attentive and make informed decisions related to business. Specialists have also laid their focus on the upcoming business prospects.
Reasons to Buy This Report
- This report will help the readers to understand the competition within the industries and strategies for the competitive environment to enhance the potential profit. The report also focuses on the competitive landscape of the global Pharmaceutical Starch market, and introduces in detail the market share, industry ranking, competitor ecosystem, market performance, new product development, operation situation, expansion, and acquisition. etc. of the main players, which helps the readers to identify the main competitors and deeply understand the competition pattern of the market.
- This report will help stakeholders to understand the global industry status and trends of Pharmaceutical Starch and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities.
- This report will help stakeholders to understand competitors better and gain more insights to strengthen their position in their businesses. The competitive landscape section includes the market share and rank (in volume and value), competitor ecosystem, new product development, expansion, and acquisition.
- This report stays updated with novel technology integration, features, and the latest developments in the market
- This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into which regions to target globally
- This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into the end-user perception concerning the adoption of Pharmaceutical Starch.
- This report helps stakeholders to identify some of the key players in the market and understand their valuable contribution.
Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: Research objectives, research methods, data sources, data cross-validation;
Chapter 2: Introduces the report scope of the report, executive summary of different market segments (by region, product type, application, etc.), including the market size of each market segment, future development potential, and so on. It offers a high-level view of the current state of the market and its likely evolution in the short to mid-term, and long term.
Chapter 3: Detailed analysis of Pharmaceutical Starch manufacturers competitive landscape, price, production and value market share, latest development plan, merger, and acquisition information, etc.
Chapter 4: Provides profiles of key players, introducing the basic situation of the main companies in the market in detail, including product production/output, value, price, gross margin, product introduction, recent development, etc.
Chapter 5: Production/output, value of Pharmaceutical Starch by region/country. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region in the next six years.
Chapter 6: Consumption of Pharmaceutical Starch in regional level and country level. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region and its main countries and introduces the market development, future development prospects, market space, and production of each country in the world.
Chapter 7: Provides the analysis of various market segments by type, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different market segments.
Chapter 8: Provides the analysis of various market segments by application, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different downstream markets.
Chapter 9: Analysis of industrial chain, including the upstream and downstream of the industry.
Chapter 10: Introduces the market dynamics, latest developments of the market, the driving factors and restrictive factors of the market, the challenges and risks faced by manufacturers in the industry, and the analysis of relevant policies in the industry.
Chapter 11: The main points and conclusions of the report.
