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Pegfilgrastim Next As Fresenius Kabi Eyes Five Biosimilars In 2025

High Triple-Digit Million-Euro Sales Forecasted From 2024

 
• By Dean Rudge

Fresenius Kabi has drawn up a roadmap to offering five biosimilar products by 2025, with a biosimilar to Amgen’s Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) set to rival competitors in the US and Europe later this year, ahead of a biosimilar to Roche and Chugai’s Actemra/Ro-Actemra (tocilizumab).

Fresenius Kabi
Adalimumab, pegfilgrastim and tocilizumab are three of the five biosimilar products disclosed by Fresenius Kabi. • Source: Shutterstock

Fresenius Kabi has confirmed ambitions to bring in from biosimilars “high triple-digit million-euro sales from 2024 onwards and be EBITDA breakeven in 2023,” in light of plans to launch a further four biosimilar products in the next four years.

Meanwhile, management has underlined, Kabi “still fails to see why competitive pressure in biosimilars should be larger than in small molecule generics,” as the global

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