
Global Medical Polymers Market – Drivers, Opportunities, Trends & Forecasts up to 2021
- May, 2015
- Domain: Chemicals, Materials & Food - Agro, Pharma, Food & Personal Care






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Medical polymers are those polymers which are used in the medical devices and processes. The market is mainly driven by increase in medical devices coupled with shifting trend towards substitution of general materials with high performance polymers in the healthcare sector. Increasing demand of implants and development of biodegradable polymer applications are adding to the growth of the medical polymers market.
Medical fibers & resins is the largest segment in the thermoplastic elastomer market. Medical packaging hold a good position in the global medical polymers market due to rising demand of flexible packaging especially in oral systems, blood bags, among others. North America dominates the medical polymers market with huge investments in R&D and advanced technologies to bring more sophisticated products to the customers. The market of medical polymers has covered many leading players such as Dow Chemical Company, BASF SE and Celanese Corporation are among them.
The study of the global medical polymers market provides the market size information and market trends along with the factors and parameters impacting it in both short and long term. The study ensures a 360° view, providing the business decision makers to make better business plans.
Report Scope:
- Types
- Biodegradable Medical Plastics
- Medical Elastomers (SBC, Rubber Latex)
- Medical Fibers & Resins (PVC, PP, PE, Polystyrene)
- Applications
- Diagnostic Equipments
- Disposables
- Implants
- Packaging
- Others
- Regions
- Asia Pacific
- Europe
- North America
- Rest of the World
- Industry outlook: market trends and drivers, restraints, and opportunities
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Report Scope
1.3 Market Definitions
1.4 Research Methodology
1.4.1 Data Collation & In-House Estimation
1.4.2 Market Triangulation
1.4.3 Forecasting
1.5 Study Declarations
1.6 Report Assumptions
1.7 Stakeholders
2 Executive Summary
3 Market Positioning
3.1 Total Addressable Market (TAM): Plastics & Polymers
3.1.1 Market Overview
3.1.2 Major Trends
3.2 Segmented Addressable Market (SAM)
3.3 Related Markets
4 Market Outlook
4.1 Overview
4.2 Value Chain Analysis
4.3 PESTLE Analysis
4.4 Porter 5 (Five) Forces Analysis
4.5 Patents Analysis
5 Market Characteristics
5.1 Market Segmentation
5.2 Market Dynamics
5.2.1 Drivers
5.2.2 Restraints
5.2.3 Opportunities
5.2.4 DRO – Impact Analysis
6 Medical Polymers Types: Market Size and Analysis
6.1 Overview
6.2 Biodegradable Medical Plastics
6.3 Medical Elastomers (SBC, Rubber Latex)
6.4 Medical Fibers & Resins (PVC, PP, PE, Polystyrene)
6.5 Vendor Profiles
(Overview, products/services, geographic revenues, recent developments, business focus, SWOT analysis and business strategy for all vendors)
7 Medical Polymers Applications: Market Size and Analysis
7.1 Overview
7.2 Diagnostic Equipments
7.3 Disposables
7.4 Implants
7.5 Packaging
7.6 Customer Profiles
(Overview, product usage, geographic revenues, recent developments, and business strategy for all customers)
8 Regions: Market Size and Analysis
8.1 Overview
8.2 North America
8.3 Europe
8.4 Asia Pacific
8.5 Rest of the World
9 Companies To Watch For
10 Competitive Landscape
10.1 Competitor Product & Geography Benchmarking
10.2 Market Landscape
10.2.1 Key Strategies Adopted
Annexure
Acronyms
Research Framework
Infoholic research works on a holistic 360° approach in order to deliver high quality, validated and reliable information in our market reports. The Market estimation and forecasting involves following steps:
- Data Collation (Primary & Secondary)
- In-house Estimation (Based on proprietary data bases and Models)
- Market Triangulation
- Forecasting

Market related information is congregated from both primary and secondary sources.
Primary sources
involved participants from all global stakeholders such as Solution providers, service providers, Industry associations, thought leaders etc. across levels such as CXOs, VPs and managers. Plus, our in-house industry experts having decades of industry experience contribute their consulting and advisory services.
Secondary sources
include public sources such as regulatory frameworks, government IT spending, government demographic indicators, industry association statistics, and company publications along with paid sources such as Factiva, OneSource, Bloomberg among others.