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Medical is a strong and growing market, particularly as the baby boomer generation enters old age. The industry projects demand for disposable medical supplies will grow 5.6% annually through 2012. Gains will be led by drug-eluting stents, prefilled inhalers, and syringes, as well as cellular analysis, nucleic, and blood glucose diagnostic devices. US disposable medical supplies was a $60.3 billion industry in 2010, with the largest players being Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Becton-Dickinson, Kimberly-Clark, Baxter Healthcare, 3M, Boston Scientific, and Roche.
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Rosato, D.V. (2011). Medical, Emerging, and Other End Use Applications. In: Plastics End Use Applications. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0245-9_7
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