Medical Device Coatings

Report Highlights

The global medical device coating market reached about $6.1 billion in 2013. This market is expected to grow to $6.3 billion in 2014 and $9 billion in 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3% from 2014 to 2019.

Report Includes

• An overview of the global markets for medical device coatings and related technologies.
• Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2013, estimates for 2014, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2019.
• Information on the specific drivers, trends, and challenges for different segments of the market.
• Valuable insight into future trends, details on products, and information on coating manufacturers who supply the materials, the medical device companies which use it and the members of the healthcare that influence purchases.
• Details pertaining to technologies including alloy, ceramic, combination, energy-absorbing, energy-emitting, micro and nano, protective polymer, and surface treatment. 
• Comprehensive profiles of major players in the industry.

SCOPE AND FORMAT

This study looks at medical device coatings and surface treatments from the perspective of both the supply and demand side of the equation that is from coating manufacturers that supply the materials, the medical device companies that use it and the members of the healthcare community who influence purchases.

Consistent with the scope of the study, the format of this report is arranged to present its five-year forecasts as a series of tables. Each of those tables presents U.S. current dollar demand values for coatings and surface processes for 2012 and 2013, and the five-year period from 2014 through 2019. Separate sets of forecasts are presented for the:

• Eight types of coatings and surface treatment technologies.
• Nineteen healthcare areas that correspond to FDA medical device review panels.
• United States, European Union, other developed nations and the rest of the world.

In addition to forecast tables, the report includes informational tables. These summarize FDA Freedom of Information act data about generic types of devices, their use within each healthcare area, and the regulatory pathway and burdens imposed upon them. Supplier detail includes the global distribution of production facilities, location and coating-related proprietary names. An appendix contains the abstract of major coating-related patents, including their initial assignees.

Analyst Credentials

James Wilson is a technology analyst, who has previously served as editor of the Princeton Business Journal and as senior science and technology editor for Hearst Magazines. He is a past member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Medical Writers Association. Wilson served on the adjunct faculty of Temple University and on the staffs of Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences.