The growing investments in the pharmaceutical R&D, rising food safety concerns, increasing adoption of gas chromatography in oil & gas industry and policies to reduce environmental pollution levels are the key drivers of the chromatography instruments market growth. Increasing burden on healthcare systems owing to the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and growing importance of chromatography tests in drug approval process will further upsurge the demand for chromatography instruments. The chromatography instruments market includes Tier I and II vendors like Agilent Technologies, Shimadzu Corporation, Waters Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific and PerkinElmer among others. The companies have a large market spread across various countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest of the World. The global COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the business to a certain extent as multiple manufacturing facilities of players were shut down during the lockdown. Despite of the challenging situation, industries are gradually recovering from the impact of the pandemic. As the supply and distribution channels are beginning to open up, business operations are likely to rise at a slow and steady rate in the near future. Thus, the pandemic is not estimated to have long-term effects on the fundamental growth drivers of the chromatography instruments market. It is estimated that market reconciliation and development would be seen toward the beginning of 2021.