In addition to the developed countries and countries in the Asia Pacific region as the global market for disposable medical devices, some previously neglected countries and regions have gradually become new markets for disposable medical devices, including West Africa and Southeast Asian countries.
In the past 10 years, the global disposable medical device industry has achieved unprecedented development. Its varieties include sanitary materials, disposable medical gloves, disposable infusion sets/transfusion devices, medical textiles, surgical instruments, and disposable catheters (such as catheters). Tubes, drainage tubes, etc.), cardiac surgery instruments, vascular surgical instruments, obstetrical instruments, anesthesia instruments, oxygen masks, etc., as many as thousands of specific species. According to the latest report from foreign media, the total sales of the disposable medical device market worldwide reached 89 billion U.S. dollars last year. In the United States, Europe and other developed countries and regions, disposable medical device sales have accounted for about 45% of total sales in the medical device market. It is expected that by the next year, the global disposable medical device market is expected to reach nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars. This shows that the rapid development momentum of the disposable medical device market.
The United States is the world's largest medical device market and the largest disposable medical device market. Its disposable medical device products account for more than 40% of the global disposable medical device market. Europe is the second largest disposable medical device market in the world, with a market size of approximately 29% of the global disposable medical device market. In countries including Japan, China, India, and other Asian emerging industrial countries, the total disposable medical device sales accounted for approximately 17% to 18% of the international market. The disposable medical device products in other countries and regions in the world account for the remaining more than 10%.
Anesthesia medical device
Anesthesia equipment products are one of the essential medical equipment products for surgical operations. In recent years, the market for disposable anesthesia equipment abroad has grown rapidly. The main instruments used for early anesthesia in hospitals in various countries were tube insertion products (referred to as “anesthetic hoses”). However, in recent years, a new type of disposable anesthetic apparatus product—the throat mask that is more convenient and less damaging to patients (throats) has emerged, and soon replaced the centuries-old insertion anesthesia tube. At present, hospitals in developed countries in the United States and Europe have basically popularized disposable anesthesia throat masks. The annual sales of anesthesia disposable masks used in developed countries in Europe and America are around US$250 million. It is reported that disposable laryngeal masks for anesthesia have been extended to economically developed countries and regions such as Japan, Singapore and China's Hong Kong and Taiwan regions. It is expected that by 2012, new products such as disposable anesthesia apparatus will be promoted for use in other Asia Pacific countries, and its market space is very large.
Non-woven sanitary materials
The non-woven fabric made of high-molecular polymer PP is low in price and can be sterilized and sterilized by commonly used sterilization means such as ultraviolet rays or ethylene oxide, and is very suitable for producing various kinds of medical textiles, sanitary materials, bandages and the like in place of cotton cloth. Fabric products.
Medical textiles or sanitary materials made of non-woven fabrics are more environmentally friendly because they can be reused as recycled plastic materials and reused after being used. Most of the hygienic materials that can be made of cotton cloth and non-woven fabrics can produce similar products. Such as surgical mats, sterilization packaging, protection of wound materials, foot protection materials, health masks, hospital sheets, cover cloth required for surgery, doctors wear outer clothing and patient clothes, etc., can use non-woven processing .
It is understood that in recent years, only the United States and Canada have consumed about 3.3 billion square meters of non-woven materials each year for the processing of various sanitary materials and medical textiles. In the United States, total annual disposable non-woven fabric sanitary materials and medical textiles totaled 3.4 billion U.S. dollars, ranking first in the world; Europe ranked second, with total sales of approximately 2.3 billion U.S. dollars; Japan, China, India and other emerging Asian countries The consumption of disposable non-woven sanitary materials and medical textiles in industrial countries has increased rapidly. Relevant parties predict that the total sales of global disposable non-woven sanitary materials and medical textiles market will exceed US$5 billion in the next two years.
Since non-woven fabric disposable sanitary materials and medical textiles can save valuable cotton fiber raw materials, and the price of non-woven fabrics is only 1/4 of that of cotton fibers, more and more sanitary materials and medical textiles will be used instead. Non-woven made disposable products to reduce production costs. The person in charge of the American Medical Device Industry Association believes that in the coming years, the annual growth rate of disposable non-woven surgical materials and sanitary materials in the international market will reach about 15%, which will become another international market after the disposable syringes. Best-selling disposable equipment products.
Other medical devices
According to chief economist of Frost & Sullivan Consulting in the United States, prefilled syringes are expected to become the fastest growing one-time medical device products in the international medical device market in the next few years. The so-called pre-filled syringe refers to a new type of syringe product that combines “harmony and medicine”. Its representative is the world-famous insulin pen. Its current sales volume is as high as one billion per year. It is understood that pre-filled syringes have been promoted to bio-engineering drugs (such as EPO, human growth hormone, interferon, etc.), disposable pens for collagen injection used frequently in the beauty industry, and disposable Botox A syringes for removing wrinkles. and many more.
Pre-filled syringes and other "pharmaceutical combination" of innovative equipment products have become the fastest growing equipment products in the United States and Europe. Since they are all single use (with the exception of an insulin pen), they do not cause infection to the patient. New medical device products such as disposable pre-filled syringes have developed the fastest in the United States.
At present, various pre-filled syringe products have become the most popular consumer products in the international market. According to foreign forecasts, global sales of pre-filled syringe products are approximately between 10 billion and 12 billion US dollars, and the development momentum is very strong.
Recently, developed countries such as the United States have recently developed a new batch of disposable device new products, including: high value silicone gel injectors (mainly used for breast augmentation surgery), spherical or curved orthopedic materials, and disposable invisibility. Spectacle lenses and other various disposable devices. All in all, these products are all products that are urgently needed by the market and have a very high sales volume.
In addition to developed countries and countries in the Asia Pacific region as the world's major market for disposable medical device products, some previously neglected countries and regions have gradually become a new one-off medical device market, including West Africa and Southeast Asian countries. For example, over the past few years, the UN Department of Health has stepped up its support for medical devices in some West African countries including Nigeria and other countries. It is reported that the annual consumption of disposable medical device products in Nigeria amounts to one billion U.S. dollars. Every year, the United Nations assists the West African underdeveloped countries in the payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in disposable medical device products. However, these products were mostly bids by Indian companies when bidding. The human cost of India is much lower than that of China, and it is often won at the tender of a one-time United Nations medical device product. Nevertheless, Chinese enterprises must not easily give up the disposable medical device market in West Africa and other regions. On the contrary, efforts should be made to expand the market for medical devices with a relatively small degree of development, such as Southeast Asia and West Africa, because these countries have a severe shortage of disposable medical device products, so the import volume is large.
It is learned recently that the Nigerian government plans to gradually update the Lagos City Hospital and the five major district hospitals in the country in the next five years, and has already implemented relevant budgetary expenses. This news is undoubtedly a good news for China's medical device industry.
