New York – Medical devices manufacturing companies are in a continuous process of enhancing medical devices in terms of safety, convenience and, most importantly, sterility. The sterility factor led to the creation of disposable medical devices. New sensor technology, which senses and records changes in electrical properties, helped create disposable medical sensors. Disposable medical sensors are extremely useful in diagnosis, therapeutics, and monitoring of patients. For example, a disposable blood pressure sensor is used during the surgery for continuously monitoring patients’ blood pressure. These sensors are plugged to a monitor on which patients’ vital information can be seen. These sensors are also used in intensive-care units but are replaced every 24 hours.

This report discusses the global disposable medical sensors market in terms of growth, size, and opportunities not only with regard to different products, but also regionally.

The report includes forecasted trends and revenue through 2019. Major players, innovative products and technologies, trends and market dynamics, competitive intelligence, and regional trends are well researched and analyzed in the report.

• The global market for disposable medical sensors grew to $4.2 billion in 2014 from $3.8 billion in 2013. The market is expected to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.2% from 2014 to 2019, reaching $6.8 billion in 2019.
• The North American market in 2013 totaled nearly $1.5 billion. This market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 8.7% from 2014 to 2019 from nearly $1.6 billion in 2014 to $2.4 billion by 2019.
• Asia-Pacific totaled $919.3 million in 2013. This market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% from 2014 to 2019 to reach $1 billion in 2014 and nearly $1.9 billion by 2019.

The report will analyze the global market in regard to the types, products and applications and will also focus on the regulations affecting these sensors. Regionally, the focus of the study will be the markets of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the World (ROW). Disposable medical sensors include wearable sensors, implantable sensors, invasive sensors, ingestible sensors, and strip sensors. The strip sensors market is growing and commands a significant market share.

Market structure
With regard to the four geographic regions noted above, the global disposable medical sensors market is analyzed on the basis of disposable medical sensor products, categories and applications.

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Dublin – Research and Markets officials have announced the addition of the "United States Medical Adhesives Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2020" report to their offering.

Medical device manufacturers across the U.S. are expanding their production capacities on account of growing demand for diagnostic and surgical devices in hospitals and clinics, which is significantly boosting the domestic medical adhesives market. Over the last few years, various major medical adhesive companies have made huge investments in the R&D sector, which has had a positive impact on the medical adhesives market and has led to development of new products and technologies.

Medical adhesives are the substances that are used in medical industry to seal wounds; affix any medical device such as a tape, dressing, or patch to the skin; and fabricate components of medical devices. Medical adhesives are broadly categorized into two types namely, synthetic medical adhesives and natural medical adhesives. Depending upon the chemistry involved in synthetic medical adhesives, synthetic type are categorized as acrylic based, cyanoacrylate based, epoxy based, or silicone based. Cyanoacrylate based adhesives are primarily used in bonding of surgical instruments.

Rapidly growing demand for medical devices in the U.S. has led to increasing demand for medical adhesives over the last five years as a result of which major medical adhesive manufacturers have been expanding their production capacities in the country. The growing anticipated demand for advanced and light weight medical devices is expected to further boost the country's medical adhesives market in the coming years.

Some of the major players presently operating in the US medical adhesives market include 3M, Henkel Ag & Co. KGaA, Adhesive Research Inc., Ethicon Inc., and Cyberbond LLC.

Market trends and developments

• New medical innovations
• Refurbishment of medical equipment
• Increased regulation on medical devices
• Consolidation of healthcare providers
• Home healthcare on rise

Companies mentioned

• 3M Company
• Cryolife Inc.
• Adhezion Biomedical LLC
• Cyberbond LLC
• Ethicon Inc.
• Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
• Morgan Adhesive Co. (MACtac)
• Scapa Healthcare
• Chemence Inc.
• Adhesive Research Inc.

Source: Research & Markets

York, Pennsylvania – A new modular extrusion system enables processors of tubing and other small-diameter medical products to be up and running with a new job just three minutes after the previous run, leaving the tasks involved in die and barrel cleanout to take place outside the clean room environment. 

American Kuhne’s Modular Quick-Change system has four components: an extruder drive module for the clean room; a purge module for the tool room or other maintenance area; and two barrel modules, one used on-line while the alternate is purged and cleaned. At the end of a job, the “dirty” barrel module, including die head, is rolled away to the tool room for cleanout – a procedure that typically takes two hours. The alternate barrel module, preheated and with the new job recipe pre-loaded, can be installed on-line in about three minutes.

Based on single-minute exchange of die (SMED) concepts, the new system is especially suited for medical and other contamination-sensitive applications, according to Bill Kramer, chief technology officer for extrusion systems.

“The medical industry demands best practices in machine design that provide stability, efficiency, and control,” Kramer said. “Beyond these, this SMED solution enables a novel hot-swap process that reduces to minutes what would otherwise take hours and, perhaps more importantly, preserves the clean room environment.” 

The Modular Quick-Change system is available for extruders up to 2" (51mm), though custom-engineered systems are available for larger units.

How production downtime for job changeovers is reduced

• Switching jobs. This roughly three-minute process takes place as follows: After dumping unused material from the hopper and vacuuming material from the feed throat, the operator unbolts the dirty barrel module from the drive module, unplugs its electrical connections, rolls it to the tool room for cleaning, and rolls a clean, preheated barrel module to the clean room, where it is positioned for mounting to the drive module. After inserting a feed section liner into the drive module, the operator bolts the barrel module to the drive module, plugs in the electricals, adds material, and starts the new run.  
• Purging and cleanout. After inserting a feed section liner into the purge module, the operator puts the purge module into “engage” mode to align the screw keyways, mounts the dirty barrel module to the purge module, turns off engage mode, bolts the barrel module to the purge module, and plugs in the electricals. The operator then unbolts the die head clamp for cleanout, runs out the material remaining in the barrel, and uses a pneumatic screw pusher to remove and clean the screw. After replacing the cleaned screw, breaker plate, and die head, the operator pre-loads the recipe for the next run and preheats the barrel module to have it ready for use.  

Source: American Kuhne

Providence, Rhode Island – Mahr, during the past 2 years, has completed product developments of the MarSurf WM 100, MarSurf LD130/ 260 Aspheric and MarForm MFU 200 Aspheric 3D solutions for measuring contour and roughness parameters on aspheres and freeform optics. Furthermore, a prototype of the Tilted-Wave-Interferometer MarSurf TWI 60 was presented to the market. The MarSurf TWI 60 was one of the three finalists of SPIE’s (International Society for Optics and Photonics) 2015 PRISM Awards, and winner of the German AMA (Association for Sensors and Measurement) 2014 Innovation award.

With the acquisition on June 8, 2015, the Mahr Group broadens its technology base by adding the leading-edge surface and wavefront metrology from ESDI. ESDI, innovator for Fizeau-Interferometers, with its Dimetior and Intellium product series, ideally complements the Mahr product portfolio. 

Based on its worldwide active sales and service network, the Mahr Group can offer even more attractive measurement solutions for spheres, aspheres, freeform optics, and other optical components.

Mahr Group
Mahr is a worldwide operating, family-run business with 1,900 employees and 17 subsidiaries. The name “Mahr” is traditionally connected with the terms production metrology, quality, and innovation. In addition to high-quality measuring units to test workpiece geometry, also high-precision gear and metering pumps and high-precision rotary stroke bearings as a universal element for mechanical constructions are essential components of the product program. 

As an application specialist in the field of production metrology, Mahr solves the metrological tasks of its customers and is the contact partner for all questions related to quality.

Mahr offers solutions for high-precision metering to the manufacturers of the synthetic fibers, elastomers, and fiber-reinforced composites, their suppliers and generally for the plastics processing industry.

Source: Mahr Federal Inc.