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Maize and Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals depends on maize.

Maize (commodity) and Pharmaceuticals (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Maize → Pharmaceuticals

2 of the enterprise types in Pharmaceuticals depend on maize; for the most dependent, it rates 5 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 5 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Key starting material and intermediate makers: glucose for fermentation (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Excipient and capsule suppliers: starch (criticality 3 of 5)

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