[Abstract] MDSP international market status. Let's take a look at the market capacity and distribution of MDSP industry worldwide. According to relevant estimates, the global MDSP market sales in 2003 was US $1.65 billion, and the specific distribution is shown in Figure 1. It can be seen from Figure 1 that the North American market is the largest MDSP market in the world, with sales volume of 800 million US dollars, accounting for half of the global MDSP market; the European and Asian markets
MDSP international market status
Let's take a look at the market capacity and distribution of MDSP industry worldwide. It is estimated that the sales volume of MDSP market in 2003 is US $1.65 billion. The specific distribution is shown in Figure 1. It can be seen from Figure 1 that the North American market is the largest MDSP market in the world, with sales of US $800 million, accounting for half of the global MDSP market; the European and Asian markets are almost equal in pre press technology, each accounting for about 20% of the market share, while the South American market accounts for 8%. However, due to the weakness of the medical industry in Africa, there is no way to reflect the market share. commercial press
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Status information: like most industrial sectors, the most powerful country in MDSP is still the United States. This strong strength includes the upstream strong raw material and plastic resin suppliers, the midstream strong MDSP PSBs product manufacturers and the downstream stronger medical device manufacturer processes, as well as the strong supporting technology and information services, such as ASTM, ISO, AAMI, FDA and other standards and regulatory agencies. Based on this fact, to introduce the current situation of the global MDSP market is basically to introduce the current situation of the United States.
Of course, in addition to the United States, Europe and Australia also have good MDSP PSBs suppliers and related mechanical equipment manufacturers in the financial crisis, especially the German FFS equipment manufacturers and their headquarters are located in Melbourne, Australia, but Amcor company has performed very well in the European MDSP market. In addition, the EU regulation also earlier and more perfect the content of MDSP. For example, in 1997, EN868-1 about the nature of general rules for sterilization packaging of medical devices was issued.
MDSP industry in the United States
Let's take a look at the basic situation of the MDSP industry in the United States. There are two specialized organizations (both non-governmental organizations) on MDSP in the United States. One is the industry regulation of SPMC Committee of FPA. This is an organization for enterprises. Although it was established as early as 1994 (at that time, there was no initiative awareness of MDSP in China), it was noted that So far, there are only eight members, namely Alcan, Amcor, beacon converters, Oliver, Bemis perfecseal, rollprint, technipaq and tolas. The author has contact with six companies except beacon and technipaq, but the two companies that have not contact are small-scale printing education companies, and they have no strength to enter the Chinese market at present, which is enough to show that this industry does not need too many competitors from the side. If the later entrants do not have technical or cost advantages, they will face the end of being eliminated. CTP
Among the eight companies mentioned above, tolas company is a CTF separated from Bemis company, one of the largest soft packaging companies in the United States, which is old-fashioned, stable and conservative, more than 30 years ago. As a result, the product line is very single, and the performance of the products are very close to the perfecseal brand products of Bemis in charge of MDSP business, such as glue coated Tyvek and derivative bags and coiled materials And tray lid of blister box packaging, etc. The latest news about tolas company is that in December 2006, tolas company was acquired by another packaging company in the United States & mdash; Oracle packaging company, but this acquisition is just a means of integration of Oracle's expansion in new areas of the packaging market, while tolas company will continue to be the same as before, positioned in the MDSP field, only to find a good partner as capital support and production Complementary objects. In addition, tolas's market is limited to North America so far, so this acquisition will not have any impact on the domestic MDSP market competition pattern.
Another company worth mentioning is the rollprint standard and certification. The company's history can be traced back to 1933. This old American soft packaging enterprise started from printing, and its strengths have been focused on printing, film R & D and production, and bag making. However, in 1969, when a patent for the head bag was approved, MDSP reported that Is one of its major markets. In September 2005, rollprint and others jointly established a soft packaging enterprise called alliance in Singapore, which is mainly for the Asia Pacific market, but has not been involved in the MDSP field on a large scale. In addition, in recent years, rollprint company has repeatedly won gaobao in the annual selection of FPA, but unfortunately, there is no product about MDSP. Recombination
Another MDSP related organization in the United States is the medical device packaging Committee (MDPC) under the American packaging professional alliance (IOPP). John spitzley, a former Medtronic packaging executive, and curt Larsen, a senior consultant from DuPont, are co chairs of the Committee. Of course, since IOPP is a non-governmental organization and operates according to the profit-making enterprise mode, the position of CO chairman is the metal packaging recommended by the industry and applied for voluntarily, which ensures the technical authority and initiative of the incumbent in the field of MDSP.
By the way, I'd like to introduce the basic situation of IOPP. IOPP is a relatively loose organization organized by packaging practitioners themselves