As one of the most commonly used biomaterials, silicone rubber is increasingly used in health care and medical fields due to its excellent properties in bio-compatibility and other properties.

Global medical grade silicone market by product type: elastomer, gel, medical adhesive, medical coating, etc. By applications: contact lenses, medical equipment, medical tape, etc. And regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (2017) with a value of $1,117.8 million, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.3% expected during the forecast period (2018 to 2026), the global market for medical grade organic silicone rubber is estimated to exceed $1.9 billion by 2026.

LSR is attractive for durability, low viscosity, chemical and temperature resistance, and flexibility, but its biological compatibility is excellent.

LSR is highly compatible with human tissues and body fluids and resistant to bacterial growth. The medical grade of LSR is temperature-resistant, easily sterilized, and compatible with a wide range of medical instruments and accessories such as implant devices, liquid feed bottles, dialysis filters, and oxygen mask instruments.

LSR product applications – Plastic surgery

The global plastic surgery market is estimated to grow at an annual compound growth rate of 9.47% from 2016 to 2020. The Asia-Pacific region is higher than the global average, with an estimated annual compound growth rate of 13-15%.

According to some estimates, although Japan and South Korea, the largest Asian market in terms of market size, only have 9.1% and 12.8% annual growth rates, mainland China and India, which have the largest population, have 15.7% and 21% respectively, which are significantly higher than the global average compound growth rate, and Taiwan also has 14.8% annual compound growth rate.

Applications are growing in the medical field, including implantable devices, a wearable that tracks blood pressure or heart rate, and medical devices with more complex designs and smaller microscopic components.

LSR is particularly suited to the medical market because they provide medical device makers with shorter healing times, lower curing temperatures, and greater consistency. Because it is well suited to automation, it can limit pollution in cleaning room manufacturing operations. LSR also improves purity and bio-compatibility compared to high-consistency rubberized silicone.

In 2020, with the increasing demand of the medical industry, the role of silicone rubber tubes is becoming more and more extensive. Currently, all clinical equipment and peripheral medical auxiliary materials in the national fight against the novel coronavirus need to use medical-grade silicone tube strips. Most of them are made of polydimethylsiloxane, which is characterized by high strength and good extensibility. Stable fracture resistance, high and low-temperature thermal stability, and chemical stability.

One of the reasons for choosing silicone material in the medical industry is that silicone products have good density and good hydrophobicity. In the absence of surface activity enhancers, it is in harmony with water quality, so the routine use is relatively stable. Due to the particularity of the material micro-molecules, silicone tube does not conflict with any substance, so it is not easy to breed bacteria when used in medical treatment. It can be transmitted with different drugs and water quality without destroying the quality of the liquid, so the silicone tube can provide good drug protection in the medical industry.

Good performance is one of the keys to it, in addition to the appearance and process also has outstanding points, and silicone rubber has a different refractive index because the silicone elastomer made of the hose is composed of silicone polymer and amorphous silicon dioxide, different permeability and effect or mold can achieve very good transparency. The fog surface effect can only achieve the translucent effect, its natural color is translucent and transparent appearance shape, you can clearly see the liquid and material flowing inside the tube, so you can be reassured, compared with some ordinary thermoplastic hoses, and many of the natural colors of the thermoplastic tube are mostly turbidity semi-permeability, permeability is low and performance can not achieve the expected use effect, not suitable for medical fluid transmission during use.

Silicone rubber tubes have different production processes, and the most common processing method is extrusion molding. The product is formed by a vertical hole mold with the extrusion of raw materials through the mold shape under high-temperature strength. The curing time of the product is short, the forming process is simple, and the length can be extended indefinitely. This process is suitable for a variety of industries to use pipe strips, in medical and household appliances, and daily use environments can be used.