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Needles & syringes, BD
Franklin Lakes, United States41.00°N 74.20°W
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BD (Becton Dickinson) dominates the world's needles and syringes (global leader, >70% of the syringe/needle market)
2024Fault line
Vaccinating and injecting the world takes billions of needles and syringes, whose production one group largely dominates. The Covid campaign showed the injection device could run short before the vaccine.
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BD (Becton Dickinson)
Terumo
Nipro
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