Medical coatings are an important process for the process of cleaning and sterilizing medical and surgical instruments. We apply coatings to equipment using state-of-the-art techniques for easy application and cost efficiency. The medical industry uses a variety of equipment, tools, accessories and instruments for a variety of treatment modalities.

The availability of a medical coating is in various forms, such as lubricants, antimicrobial coatings, and hydrophilic surface coatings for each different phase of the coating. Aluminum is the most common metal for medical devices due to its weight-to-strength ratio and short production costs, and also prevents uncontrollable corrosion. Different medical coatings from lubricants to antimicrobial to water repellent polymers have different coatings used in many devices for many different applications.

The global medical coatings market is analyzed on the basis of coating types, substrate and medical coating. Types of medical coatings are distributed on the basis of lubricants, antimicrobial coatings, hydrophilic surface coatings and their hydrophilic coatings used in carious medical devices and equipment.

What is the market for medical coatings?

The medical coating provides protection to life-saving medical devices. This coating technology is designed to improve the safety and functionality of intravascular medical devices. The medical coating has various types such as lubricant, antimicrobial, hydrophilic and hydrophobic and so on.

What are the applications in the medical coatings market?

Medical coating has many applications such as medical devices, medical implants, medical devices and instruments. Common uses of coatings in the medical and healthcare sector for wound healing, drug manufacturing and testing, and support equipment. The need to cover the wound is necessary for the non-stick adhesive layer of the woven or nonwoven body of the dressings.

Market research and market trends in the medical coatings market:

According to a technology developed by researchers called LINOREL-liquid, a new coating for medical devices could help prevent infections. This fluid impregnates nitric oxide-releasing silicone, which adheres to devices such as catheters and surgical instruments that sometimes transmit infections.

With the advent of COVID-19, many scientists started developing novel and eco-friendly surface coating based nano materials from anti-viral and anti-bacterial metal ions and polymers which can prevent surface related SARS-CoV-2 infection.

MARKET GROWTH ENABLERS

• Growing Demand for Antimicrobial Coatings
• Increase In Demand for Minimally Invasive Surgeries
• Technological Innovations in Medical Device Coatings

GLOBAL MEDICA DEVICE COATINGS MARKET SEGMENTS

• Hydrophilic coatings accounted for the highest share of more than 31% in the global medical device coatings market due to its wide application on medical devices for lubricity and compatibility.
• Metallic coatings provide antibacterial properties, durability, compatibility, and other features when coated on medical devices which is contributing to its larger share of around 64.60% compared to non-metallic coatings in the global medical device coatings market.
• Catheters being the most commonly used medical devices in healthcare settings accounted for the major share of over 29% in the global medical device coatings market in 2021.

Segmentation by Coating Type
• Hydrophilic
• Antimicrobial
• Drug-eluting
• Thromboresistant
• others

Segmentation by Material
• Metallic
• Non-metallic

Segmentation of Product
• Catheters
• Implants
• Electrosurgical Instruments
• Stents
• Other

GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

In 2021, North America dominated the global medical device coatings market with the highest share of more than 38.00% owing to its large presence of manufacturers, high usage of medical devices, and advancements in medical coatings.