Plastics in Medical Technology on Course for Further Success

Be it contact lenses, intubation tubes, single-use syringes or cannulas, more than half of all medical products manufactured around the world are made of plastics. But even beyond these mass-produced articles, the prospects for polymer materials in medical technology look rosy. This is a fast-growing market – and one which will remain expansive and lucrative, given the increasing world population and longer life expectancy along with rising expectations regarding health care. At the same time, this is a field governed by a permanent pressure to innovate because of the often extremely short life cycles of the products involved.

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