MEDICAL PLASTICS MARKET ANALYSIS

Medical Plastics MarketSize and Trends

Medical Plastics Market – Dynamics

Increasing usage of medical devices in hospitals is driving growth of the medical plastics market. Medical devices such as MRI plays a vital role in lab tests and clinical diagnostics for inner body insights. Increasing use of imaging techniques such as MRI is likely to boost growth of the medical plastics market. For instance, according to a report published in the National Health Services 2017, around 41 million medical imaging tests were performed in England in 2017, of which 3.49 million imaging tests took place in January 2017, where MRI was performed 0.28 million times.

Moreover, increasing investments by government bodies and private organizations for health and medical researches and development is expected to propel growth of medical plastics market. For instance, according U.S. Investments in Medical and Health Research and Development report 2017published by Research America, investment in medical and health research and development (R&D) in the U.S. grew by 20.6% between 2013 and 2016. Also, private industries invested around US$ 115.9 billion in medical and health R&D whereas, federal agencies invested a total of US$ 37.6 billion, with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) accounting for nearly US$ 30.5 billion.