It Will be A Focus of Domestic New Medical Dressings of the Local Market

Medical dressing mainly provides an aseptic and isolated environment for wound, to prevent the spread of infection source between medical staff and patients, between patients and patients during invasive surgery, and to effectively control cross-infection in hospital, which is an essential material in the invasive operation. Where there is a wound, there is a medical dressing.

Medical dressings include not only wound care dressings, but also operating room infection protection and medical protection products. This article is based on the narrow sense of medical dressings, that is, wound care products, which refer to the medical devices that can replace the damaged skin to play a temporary barrier role in the process of wound healing, avoid or control wound infection, and provide an environment conducive to wound healing.

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Medical dressings can be divided into traditional medical dressing and new medical dressing，based on the theory of moist healing. The former mainly uses natural gauze, cotton pads, and synthetic fibers. The latter includes foam dressing, alginate dressing, and polymer nanofiber dressing, and others.

Driven by the Policies

Since 2015, the state has issued a series of policies, which provide an effective guarantee for the development of the medical device industry, including the medical dressing industry. The overall development level and international competitiveness of the medical dressing industry in China are expected to further improve.

Aging Population Provides Development Window for Medical Dressings

People over 60 years old are the high incidence population of senile diseases and chronic diseases. The health resources consumed by the elderly are 1.9 times of the average resources consumed by the whole population, the prevalence of chronic diseases over 60 years old is 3.2 times of the total population, and the disability rate is 3.6 times of the total population.

The aging population is also one of the main driving forces for the development of the medical dressing. Data shows that by the end of 2017, the number of people over 60 years old in China had reached 240.9 million, accounting for 17.3 ppercent.

More Optimized New Medical Dressing Will Become the Industry Trend

In the past, the medical community believed that keeping dry is of great significance to promote wound healing. Wound dressings that keep dry are traditional wound care products. However, the traditional dressings are limited in clinical application because they do not have the functions of treatment and repair.

Compared with the traditional dressing, the new dressing shows more strengths of reducing the pain of dressing change, shortening the nursing time, and making dressing change easy, and others, which meets the need of patients more.

In 2016, the proportion of new dressings in the world reached 59.5 percent, and its proportion in developed regions reached more than 80 percent. From the perspective of development trend, people who prefer to shorten the rehabilitation time are willing to choose the new dressing, even though it is more expensive, with the acceleration of life rhythm and the increase of work pressure. The demand for new dressings is increasingly urgent, which is expected to further expand in the future.

Domestic Medical Dressings Will Expand the Domestic Market

Domestic medical dressings have developed well in recent years, from 1.22 billion USD in 2013 to 1.79 billion USD in 2016, with a CAGR of 13.7 percent. Domestic dressings take a leading position in the domestic market of medical dressings in terms of market share, and the imported dressings are mainly new dressings.

Under the fact of the uncertain international situation and the huge domestic consumer market, some large-scale enterprises of medical dressing export-oriented paid higher attention to the domestic market and begin to d of the domestic market. Besides, driven by the policy, medical materials, including dressings, are inclined to the grass-roots level, and the market share of domestic medical dressings is expected to further increase.

It Will be A Focus of Domestic New Medical Dressings into Domestic Market

Large companies of medical dressing export have stepped up their efforts to enrich the domestic market with the continuous expansion of the domestic market demand. And the foreign manufacturers in China have gradually implemented the localization strategy of the domestic market. The market size of medical dressing in China will reach 1.04 billion USD in 2019 and 1.18 billion USD in 2020.

Domestic Enterprises

There are a large number of domestic companies with fierce competition, most of which are export-oriented. The top three companies in the industry have been catching up with each other, including Ogilvy Medical, Winner Medical, and Zhende Medical. More than half of the products of them are sold abroad, and most of the company's gross profit is contributed by overseas markets. On the way to explore the domestic market, the large-scale export enterprises still have more strengths.

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