Tablet Crushers Market

Tablet crusher is a medical device designed to reduce caplets and pills into fine powder form, enabling easy intake of medicines by patients. Tablet crusher typically is a table-top unit incorporated with a manual handle and operates mechanically by applying a pressure to crush the tablet and collect it into plastic pouch or cup.

A variety of pill crushers or tablet crushers are commercially available in the market, which includes manual handheld tablet crushers, electric powered pill crushers, metal tablet crushers, others. Tablet crushers are used in distinct healthcare facilities and are used mainly at homecare setting enabling the intake of coated drugs and vitamins, either direct intake or mixed with liquid food.

Also, a plastic cup or bag is always required to be used with a tablet crusher in order to prevent cross contamination of different tablets in facilities where more than one patients medication is crushed.

Tablet crushers work in a way that the tablets are inserted into the plastic bag or cup and then the crusher handle is lowered down to break the pill. The broken pills are then rotated and crushed finely again. The crushed tablets repeatedly undergo the mentioned steps till a desired consistency is obtained.

In some cases, a doctor needs to be consulted prior crushing a tablet in order to make sure the medications could be crushed in a pill crushers without losing their property. Tablet crushers are used at hospitals or home care settings to evaluate the method of drug administration that determines whether the patient gained any therapeutic value or any adverse effect is registered.

Over the time, it is estimated that about 75 percent of the older patients did not comply with their medication regimes when they have to stay at hospital. The older the patient, more would be the intake of medications by them, thereby increasing non-compliance with their medication regimes.

An older patient might become non-compliant as they find it difficult to swallow large capsules, have dislike for taste of a particular medicine, and are afraid of taking large number of medicines. In order to avoid this compliance situation, opening capsules and crushing tablets are made available on a wide scale. Approximately, 84.0% of the practitioners have adopted the above mentioned methods of administering medicine

Evolution of technically advanced latex-free, economical tablet cutters with excellent pill crushing features is fueling the demand of tablet cutters across hospitals, nursing homes and home care settings. Emergence of tablet crushers in home care setting is providing economic advantages for the manufacturers of pill crushers.

Electric powered tablet crushers are in high demand in large setting hospitals. However, advanced silent tablet crusher still need some time to lead the demand for tablet crushers. This is due to less adoption of newly introduced crushers over conventional manual tablet crushers.

The global market for tablet crushers is driven by increasing availability of tablet crushers at reasonable cost with best design, which is durable and sturdy. Growing number of older patients that face non-compliance with their medication regimes is another factor driving the demand for tablet crushers across the globe.

Availability of variant tablet crushers with features to handle and crush the tablets of different size is a preliminary factor increasing penetration of these products in matured markets. However, emerging countries of Asia Pacific region do not have high adoption rate for tablet crushers, which restricts the market growth in Asia Pacific region.

Technological advancements in tablet crushers is an important factor fueling the growth of tablet crushers market. For instance, an introduction of advanced silent tablet crusher has revolutionized the medicinal crushing mechanism.

Based on the product type, significant portion of the market has been covered by handheld tablet crushers, electric crushers, silent tablet crushers, and others. Electric tablet crushers and silent tablet crushers collectively hold largest revenue share.

This is due to higher adoption of advanced pill crushers with latest features. Moreover, the tablet crushers are comparatively inexpensive and easily available online or at nearby drugstores which lead to strong positioning of these product segments in the overall market.

Hospitals, nursing homes, and private homecare settings pose a strong position in the market due to high demand of silent tablet crushers in these end use settings. These end user share significant portion of revenue share in the overall market.

However, continuing admission of older patients in hospitals coupled with increasing incidence of non-compliance with the current medication regime will provide remarkable growth opportunity for tablet crushers in outpatient hospitals, & home care settings. Further, the growing trend of home medication and availability of durable, lightweight and compact designed tablet crushers would flourish the growth of the tablet crushers market.

Geographically, the global tablet crushers market is segmented into eight key regions viz.  North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific Excluding Japan, China, and Middle East & Africa. North America will continue to dominate the global market due to the commercial availability of advanced pill crushers and more number of older patients admitted in hospitals.

Europe is expected to hold second largest market share in global tablet crushers market due to presence of large number of domestic manufacturers of tablet crushing devices.

Examples of some of the players identified in the global tablet crushers market are Equadose, Dynarex Corporation, CareLine Medical. Majority of tablet crushers are available at local drugstores and online stores. Large number of hospitals are using silent pill crushers over other types owing to its salient features.

Tablet crushers testing varies at regional level owing to variations in terms of available technologies used in manufacturing tablet crushers. However, demand for electric tablet crushers offers a global opportunity to its manufacturers, as these are registering high demand globally.

The report covers exhaustive analysis on:

• Tablet Crushers Market by product type, material type, end user and region
• Regional level market analysis of North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific Excluding Japan, Japan, China, Middle East & Africa by product type, material type, end user segments and country
• Tablet Crushers Market Dynamics & Opportunity Assessment
• Historical Actual Market Size, 2013 - 2017
• Tablet Crushers Market Size & Forecast 2018 - 2028
• Tablet Crushers Agents Current Trends/Issues/Challenges
• Competition & Companies involved

• Shifting industry dynamics
• In-depth market segmentation
• Historical, current and projected industry size, recent industry trends
• Key Competition landscape, market structure, regulatory scenario
• Epidemiology outlook for diseases
• Economical spending, regional healthcare outlook, consumer healthcare expenditure
• Availability of testing, cost of test, specificity and sensitivity of test kits
• Strategies for key players and product offerings, channel strategies, regional foot print, channel footprint
• Potential and niche segments/regions exhibiting promising growth
• A neutral perspective towards market performance in terms of value and volume

The market sizing of tablet crushers will be done by the adoption data triangulation approach. The demand-side approach will be followed to assess the actual market size of tablet crushers. Secondary research will be done at the initial phase to identify the feasibility of the target products/technology categories and its respective segments, product offerings, usage pattern as per disease indications, product installed base in target healthcare facilities, life span of a device, reimbursement scenario, adoption rate and future impact of new technologies.

Additionally, per capita consumption of tablet crushers among end users will be tracked at a granular level to obtain the most accurate information. Each piece of information will be eventually analyzed during the entire research project, which will help build a strong base for the primary research information.

Primary research participants include demand-side respondents such as company managers, procurement managers, research supervisors at academic and research institutes, as well as key opinion leaders in addition to supply-side respondents such as equipment and device manufacturers, custom solution and service providers who provide valuable insights on trends, research application of products and technologies, purchasing patterns, services offered and associated pricing.