Current and Future Analysis of Medical Coatings Industry

A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, commonly referred to as a substrate. The purpose of applying the coating can be decorative, functional, or both. The coating itself can be an all-over coating that completely covers the substrate, or it can only cover parts of the substrate. An example of all of these types of coatings is a product label on many beverage bottles - one side has a functional coating (the adhesive) on all sides and the other side has one or more decorative coatings in a suitable pattern (the print) that form the words and images.

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Some of the key players of Medical Coatings Industry:

DSM Biomedical, Surmodics, Specialty Coating Systems (SCS), Biocoat, Coatings2Go, Thermal Spray Technologies, Hydromer, Harland Medical Systems, AST Products, Precision Coating, Surface Solutions Group, ISurTec, Whitford, AdvanSource Biomaterials, Jiangsu Biosurf Biotech, jMedtech

Paints and varnishes are coatings that serve to double the protection of the substrate and for decoration, although some artist paints are only used for decoration and the paint on large industrial pipes is probably only used to prevent corrosion.

Functional coatings can be applied to change the surface properties of the substrate such as adhesion, wettability, corrosion resistance or wear resistance. In other cases, e.g. In the manufacture of semiconductor devices (where the substrate is a wafer) the coating adds an entirely new property such as: Magnetic response or electrical conductivity, and forms an essential part of the end product.