Fine chemicals contract research organizations

Fine-chemical/custom manufacturing (CM) companies account for the largest share of the industry, followed by contract research organizations (CROs) and laboratory chemical suppliers. 

Fine-chemical/custom manufacturing companies (discussed in Section 2.1) are active in process scaleup, pilot plant (trial) production, and industrial-scale exclusive and nonexclusive manufacture contract research organizations are discussed in Section 2.2, and laboratory chemical suppliers are discussed in Section 2.3. 

Note. As both contract research organizations and laboratory chemical suppliers provide primarily service businesses, their revenues are excluded from the total size of the fine-chemical business, as discussed in Chapter 9. 

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