Tag Archives: sealants

Technology platforms and clinical applications overlap

Diverse technologies have a surprising number of common threads, whether in the technologies themselves or in the clinical applications.  For this reason, manufacturers need to consider that: 1. A technology platform can be the launchpad for products in clinically diverse areas. Case in point, cell therapy, which as a fundamental scientific discipline can have uses [...]

Medtech market competitor consolidation on the rise

The healthcare industry faces a less daunting period of recession compared to many industries (we’ve covered it here and here), but still faces different and tough dynamics during this period. Although demand for healthcare is more inelastic than other products and services, new business in healthcare (development and innovation) requires financing, a particularly  scarce commodity [...]

Growth, development and consolidation in the sealants, glues, wound closure and anti-adhesion industry

In the last few years, there has been a significant consolidation in the sealants, glues, wound closure and anti-adhesion industry (the "securement industry") as venture-based companies have been acquired and assimilated into larger market-based corporations with critical mass in their sales effort. This represents a welcome development for investors in leading-edge technologies, which are now [...]

Potential caseload in sealants, glues, hemostasis and anti-adhesion

For completing our most recent worldwide analysis of the market for sealants, glues, and related products, we assessed their current and potential uses globally. We found the strongest uptake of fibrin sealants in Asia; also in Europe, particularly in Italy where GEM has established a 12-item application list for its high-strength glue product. Approximately 12 [...]

Nature and medical technology trends

If one is in the position of needing to look to the future of medical technology (and who in this industry is not?)—to identify opportunities or predict challenges in the market—then it is hard to not factor into it two very different current trends and play them out toward the resulting future market impact. One [...]

Medical devices versus nature

If one is in the position of needing to look to the future of medical technology to identify opportunities or predict challenges in the market (and who in this industry is not?), then it is hard to not factor into the analysis two very different current trends and play them out toward the resulting future market impact. [...]

Wound Management Product Growth, Up and Down, to 2016

Excerpt from MedMarket Diligence report #S245, “Worldwide Wound Management, 2007-2016.” See link for more information. Available for purchase online. Technologies developed and in use for the management of acute and chronic wounds have diversified from traditional dressings, bandages and wound closure techniques to include an increasing number of diverse technologies ranging from tissue engineering, growth [...]

Wound Management Market Segment Growth, 2008-2017

Excerpt from MedMarket Diligence report #S245, “Worldwide Wound Management, 2007-2016.”  See link for more information. Available for purchase online. Technologies developed and in use for the management of acute and chronic wounds have diversified from traditional dressings, bandages and wound closure techniques to include an increasing number of diverse technologies ranging from tissue engineering, growth [...]

New Wound Closures Get Seal of Approval

From January 2008 issue of MedMarkets, with excerpts from Report #S145, "Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues & Wound Closure, 2007-2011."  This report has beeen updated by Report #S175, with forecasts for 2009-1013. The market for surgical sealants is expected to grow in double digits over the next five years as aging populations drive increases in caseloads [...]