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Machinery and equipment and Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals buys from Machinery and equipment; pharmaceuticals depends on machinery and equipment.

Machinery and equipment (industry) and Pharmaceuticals (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.8 per ₹100 · Pharmaceuticals buys from Machinery and equipment

Pharmaceuticals buys goods or services from Machinery and equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.8 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.8 of every ₹100 of Pharmaceuticals output, all rounds
  • ₹0.2 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Machinery and equipment → Pharmaceuticals

2 of the enterprise types in Pharmaceuticals depend on machinery and equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • API manufacturers and CDMOs: reactors, dryers, centrifuges (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Finished-dose formulators (branded and generic): tablet presses and filling lines (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.