MEDICAL TEXTILE

PRODUCTS,APPLICATION
MARKETS IN BANGLADESH

PRESENTATION BY
SM MOHIUDDIN
ID 073-23-657
MEDICAL TEXTILES
• Medical Textiles is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the technical
textile market. Medical Textiles are the products and constructions used for
medical and biological applications and are used primarily for first aid, clinical and
-hygienic purposes. It consists of all those textile materials used in health and
hygienic applications in both consumer and medical markets.As such it comprises
a group of products with considerable variations in terms of product performance
and unite value.Because of the nature of their application many medical products
are disposable items.The increased use of textiles in composite applications will
provide major growth fiber consumption in terms of volume.The hitherto increase
and forecast in world consumption of medical textiles is presented in the following
figure.
FOCAL POINTS OF MEDICAL TEXTILE:

Textile has always been a part of healthcare.

Combination of Textile Technology and Medical Sciences has

resulted into MEDICAL TEXTILES.

Medical Textiles are one of the faster growing sectors of the global
Technical Textile industry

Recently only application of textiles has started going beyond the usual
wound care incontinence pads plasters etc.

Latest innovation so that, wide variety of woven non woven knitted

forms of textile increasingly finding their way into a variety of surgical
procedures.

As healthcare industry is growing enormously in Bangladesh the demand

for the medical textile is also on the rise.
• Why textile implants ?

• Biocompatible materials
• Material combinations
• 2D- and 3D-structures
• Mechanical characteristic adapted to the
environment
• Adjustable macroscopic structure
• Specific surface design
• Controllable degradation
• The use of textile materials for medical and healthcare products can be
classified into following main areas –

- Barrier material (for infection control)

- Bandaging & pressure garment
- Wound care material
- Hygiene material
- Implantable material (sutures, art. Joints etc)
- Extra Corporal devices (like art. Kidney etc)

• Requirements of textile material for medical applications

• Biocompatible
• Good resistance to alkalis, acids and micro-organisms
• Good dimensional stability
• Elasticity
• Free from contamination or impurities
• Absorption / Repellency
• Air permeability.
 Medical Textile Products & Application:

Surgeons wear, wound dressings, bandages, artificial ligaments, sutures,

artificial liver/kidney/lungs, nappies, sanitary towels, vascular grafts/heart
valves, artificial joints/bones, eye contact lenses and artificial cornea and the
like are some of the examples of medical textiles
 Medical textiles in Bangladesh
Bangladesh lags behind in medical textile products as neither
the Govt. nor the textile industry has made any serious efforts
towards syncronizing textile products with the emerging needs
of the world markets by developing high value added
products.although the T&C sector is the backboneof our export
economy, our Govt. as well as the textile industry has kept their
focus on conventional textile.ignoring medical textiles and
knowledge-based products.As competition continues to
increase in the general ands consumer textile industry, the low
value added product manufactures in near furure face the
question of how to survive in a truly global market

Our neighboring country India as well as China has named in

the production of Medical textile.They are progressing steadily
with their Govt. help.it’s very awful for us thet our Govt. could
not concentrate yet on this Vass sector.
Market size of Medical textile items
Non-woven textiles market size:

 Disposable non woven textiles will dominate Medical

Textiles market.Demand for hygiene products will go huge.

 In next 10 years,1 million ton of non woven textiles is the

production level expected.

 Current Indian non woven textiles is 70 thousand tons

(which was the same level in china 15 years ago).

 China producing today 1 million ton of non woven textiles.

Opportunities & Challenges ahead
Opportunities –

Consumption is increasing rapidly

Pvt. Hospital chains are growing
Doctor/patient awareness for hygiene is increasing
Medical tourism

Challenges –

China has become very strong in most of Healthcare & hygiene

products
There are very few BIS standards in place leading to substandard
quality products being used
Export benefits like DD/DEPB not notified for many products
Market research as well as R&D program is badly needed.
To convince the investor though here is high investment is required
Conclusion
We have thus so far seen what is the current
scenario and what are the future requirements of
Medical Textiles.

Medical Textiles are one of the dynamically

expanding sectors and development of same is to
convert pain full days of patients into comfortable
days.

As medical procedures continue and transform,

the demand for textile materials is bound to grow
and grow.