Medical Plastic Products Industry

At present, about one million people worldwideproduction of PVC medical plastic products as high
have three people in uremic patients, they needas 5 million tons of raw materials, such polymer
to have regular kidney dialysis, so hollow plasticmaterials used in manufacture of low-grade
fiber kidney dialysis machine needs a hugemedical products, and our polycarbonate,
number. However, the hollow plastic fiber kidneypolyethylene terephthalate , polyether, polysulfone
dialysis machine market fundamentals for thepolymer such as relatively high prices of medical
United States, Germany, Sweden and Japan andconsumption of plastic raw materials, much lower
other developed countries monopolize. Chinathan Europe and the United States, Japan and
hospital kidney dialysis machine 90% of importedother developed countries. This shows that our
products. At present, the domestic hollow plasticmedical plastic products in the technical level there
fiber kidney dialysis machine, not only in qualityis a big gap with the developed countries.
than similar products in developed countries,Developed high-grade medical plastic products
production is running out.used in the consumption of new materials,
Many domestic hospitals for fear of domesticpolymer cent of their production of medical
hollow plastic fibers, but the quality of kidneypolymer materials, 40%, while the proportion of
dialysis machines can not easily be purchased offChina's less than 10%.
of. In addition, while the demand from the marketIn view of this, our medical plastic products to
point of view, development and production ofbreak the high-volume, low-return of the existing
domestically produced high-quality plastic hollowstructure, the only way out is to increase
fiber kidney dialysis machine has good prospects,investment to develop much-needed domestic
but unfortunately, our country has in theand foreign markets high-end medical plastic
production of specialty plastic dialysis hollow fibersproducts. Otherwise, as in Vietnam, Thailand and
have not yet made significant technologicalMalaysia and other Southeast Asian newly
breakthrough, most dependent on imports.industrialized countries of the medical plastic
Urgent need for replacement of artificial heart-lungproducts processing industry, the rapid rise in the
machinefuture is bound to low-end of our disposable
At present, the foreign hospital for bypasssyringes and other medical plastic products pose a
surgery required an artificial heart-lung machinethreat to the export. Rely solely on export large
(oxygenator) has plastic membrane oxygenator,volumes of low-grade medical plastic products to
but my hospital is still using the backward Bubbleswap the old road will be increasingly difficult to
oxygenator. Western medical researchers believewalk, my company has only resolved to take the
that the plastic membrane oxygenator in the"technological innovation" the road to open up a
future is bound to replace the traditionalnew world.
bubble-type oxygenator, as the former effect onMedical Plastics
plasma components smaller. It is predicted thatThe so-called "medical plastic products", refers to
due to a number of countries like China are stillbe directly applied to humans or hospital use of
the same should be gradually to replace theplastic products, including the consumption of a
bubble-type oxygenator, therefore, plasticgreat disposable syringes, transfusion (blood) bags,
membrane oxygenator will be the next 10 years,all kinds of medical catheter (tube) products,
best-selling products on the international market.membrane oxygenator devices, medical
In addition to these products, domestic and(non-woven category) textiles, polymer materials
overseas markets for much-needed artificial heartmade of artificial joints, denture materials,
valves, artificial blood vessels, artificial joints andorthopedic equipment, etc., but does not include
other orthopedic implantable medical devices suchmedical equipment plastic packaging. Medical plastic
as high-end production of plastic products, China isproducts, the biggest advantage is cheap, good
still in its infancy, both in product quality, quantityprocessing properties (available conventional
or variety of both unable to compete with similarprocess such as injection molding or blow molding
products in developed countries.production, unlike the need for machining of metal
Development of high-grade raw materials is amaterials, such as complicated process), as well as
prioritythe use of recycled after regeneration.
It was reported that in 2008, China for the