The global gelatin market is estimated at USD 4.0 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 5.6 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 6.9.% from 2024 to 2029. Gelatin is a popular component because to its considerable versatility and broad variety of applications. Gelatin is a vital ingredient in the food and beverage sector, helping to enhance texture and stability in food products such as bakery products, dairy products, beverages. There is also a growing trend toward natural and clean-label ingredients. With increasing health consciousness, consumers are more biased toward products containing natural components. Since gelatin is extracted from animal collagen, it is looked upon as a natural ingredient and completely goes with this trend. This new consumer behavior is accelerating the demand for gelatin in various food and personal care products.
Gelatin Market Trends
Here are some current trends shaping the Gelatin Market:
Rising Demand for Clean-Label and Natural Products: Consumers increasingly prefer products with fewer artificial additives, boosting the demand for gelatin as a natural thickening, gelling, and stabilizing agent.
Booming Functional Food and Beverage Industry: Gelatin is widely used in functional foods due to its health benefits, such as improving joint health and promoting skin elasticity, aligning with the health-conscious consumer trend.
Growth in Nutraceutical Applications: The nutraceutical sector leverages gelatin in supplements, particularly in capsules and gummies, as a convenient and bioavailable delivery system for vitamins and minerals.
Increased Use in Pharmaceuticals: Gelatin’s role in softgel capsules and tablet coatings continues to expand, driven by its biodegradability, safety, and versatility.
Popularity of Collagen-Based Products: Gelatin, a derivative of collagen, benefits from the rising demand for collagen supplements, especially in beauty, sports nutrition, and anti-aging markets.
Shift Toward Halal and Kosher Products: Manufacturers are focusing on producing gelatin that complies with religious dietary laws, expanding market accessibility and meeting global demand.
Emergence of Plant-Based Alternatives: While animal-derived gelatin dominates, there is growing interest in plant-based hydrocolloids (e.g., agar-agar, pectin) as alternatives, potentially impacting market dynamics.
Sustainability and Transparency: Ethical sourcing of raw materials, especially bovine and porcine sources, is becoming critical as sustainability and transparency become significant purchasing factors.
Gelatin Market Drivers: Increasing use of gelatin in biomedical applications
Gelatin acts as a scaffold to the vascular cells in replacement of the blood vessels lost due to coronal heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, and myocardial infarction; it is also used as a carrier for the growth factors and cells used in repairing cardiac tissues post-ML. It means that gelatin is also used as a dressing material for serious burns and chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers, because it is compatible with the skin of humans. This makes this property sufficient to be used in zinc paste binders for wound dressing. Gelatin-based blood-stanching sponges enjoy the advantage of being effective at healing wounds from thoracic surgeries and are used in repairing defects of the pleura from thoracotomies, thoracoplasties, and extrapleural procedures because of the regenerating tissues’ growth such as the pleura and fibrous tissues, which grow when the gelatin implants gradually resorb; Gelatin sponges are known to find surgical and dental uses, and, what’s more, it can even be used as a plasma substitute when there is a loss of blood. As a result of the rise in chronic diseases, there would probably be an increase in demand for gelatin-based products.Research in the present is focused on injectable gelatin hydrogels for the acceleration of skin wound healing. These hydrogels maintain a moist healing environment and protect the wound from desiccation, thus bringing comfort to patients by means of cooling effects and non-adhesiveness to tissue. Increasing rates of CVD, a reduced number of organ donors, and the possible immune complications after a heart replacement may stimulate interest in innovative cardiac reparation solutions using tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This is likely to further increase the demand for gelatin in these applications.
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Based on applications, the pharmaceutical segment is estimated to grow at the significant CAGR during the studied period.
Consumers are increasingly turning toward healthy & nutritive pharmaceutical-grade products. The gelatin in the applications is majorly used in the form of hard gel capsule, soft gel capsule, and sponging agent. Hard gelatin capsules have several advantages that make them a reliable choice for pharmaceutical applications. They ensure secure containment of their contents and provide consistent performance. Some of the major advantages include fast release of drug, homogenous mixing of ingredients, and prevention from oxygen that leads to drug oxidation. Another advantage is that hard gelatin capsules are less expensive compared to the soft gelatin capsules because they demand less complicated machinery and fewer special ingredients.The hard capsules segment will likely grow due to growing interest from biopharmaceuticals since the demand is on the rise for capsule dosage forms. For example, in May 2022, Lonza extended its Capsugel line with the introduction of TiO2-free white hard gelatin capsules.
Asia Pacific Region Holds the Largest Share of the Gelatin Market.
The demand for gelatin is growing in the region of Asia Pacific, driven by the rising demand from the pharmaceutical industry and changing consumer preference. According to the study by Torreya, the Chinese pharmaceuticals industry is projected to increase by 230% between the years 2017 and 2030, driven by government cost controls, aging population, and rising disposable incomes. The rise in demand for pharmaceutical gelatin in the region is also explained by the fact that pharmaceutical production in China is independent and regulatory policies remain dynamic. Some consuming countries of gelatin are China, India, and Japan, mainly due to large population size and consumption of non-traditional food types such as functional and convenience foods that use gelatin as a fortification and stabilizing agent.
Leading Gelatin Manufacturers:
Key Market Players in this include Darling Ingredients (US), Tessenderlo Group (Belgium), GELITA AG (Germany), Nitta Gelatin Inc. (Japan), Lapi Gelatine S.p.a. (Italy), India Gelatine & Chemicals Ltd. (India), Narmada Gelatines Limited (India), Nippi. Inc. (Japan), Weishardt (France), Trobas Gelatine B.V. (Netherlands), Sterling Biotech Ltd (India), Roxlor (US), Suheung (South Korea), Ewald-Gelatin GmbH (Germany), Geltech Co., Ltd (Korea).
Darling Ingredients (US)
Darling Ingredients is a top manufacturer of sustainable natural ingredients, operating through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. With 270 plants across five continents, the company transforms approximately 10% of the global meat industry’s waste streams into valuable products such as green energy, renewable diesel, collagen, fertilizer, animal proteins, meals, and pet food ingredients. Its subsidiaries include Rousselot BVBA in the Netherlands, Darling International Canada Inc., Rousselot Gelatinas do Brasil Ltda., Rothsay Ltd. in Canada, and Sonac Australia Pty Ltd.
Rousselot, a business unit of Darling Ingredients based in France, produces gelatin and hydrolyzed collagen for the food, nutrition, pharmaceutical, and technical sectors. Rousselot operates 11 production plants and quality control laboratories, along with 10 sales locations, distributing products to over 75 countries across Europe, China, South America, and the US.
Nitta Gelatin Inc. (Japan)
Nitta Gelatin Inc. produces gelatin and collagen products for the food, dietary supplements, and pharmaceutical industries. Their product range includes edible gelatin, photographic gelatin, collagen peptides, collagen casings, gelling agents, stabilizers, adhesives, and sealants. The company operates primarily in the Asia Pacific and North American regions. Their products are used in various applications, including pharmaceuticals, photography, cosmetics, biomaterials, biochemicals, food additives, packaging, bookbinding, construction materials, and hygiene. Nitta Gelatin’s offerings are integral to functional foods like confectionery, beverages, high-protein foods, and sports nutrition. They provide gelatin with various bloom strengths and mesh sizes, sourced from bovine, porcine, and fish materials.
Nitta Gelatin Inc. has 15 manufacturing facilities across six countries and conducts business through several subsidiaries. These include Nitta Gelatin NA Inc. (US), Nitta Gelatin Canada, Inc. (Canada), Nitta Gelatin USA, Inc. (US), Nitta Casings Inc. (US), Nitta Casings (CANADA) Inc. (Canada), Nitta Gelatin Holding, Inc. (US), Shanghai Nitta Gelatin Co., Ltd. (China), Beijing Nitta Collagen Casing Co., Ltd. (China), Nitta Hong Kong Ltd. (China), Nitta Gelatin Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Vietnam), Nitta Gelatin India Ltd. (India), Guangdong Baiwei Bio Material Co., Ltd (China), Bambi Proteins Ltd (India), and Reva Proteins Ltd. (India).
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