Surgical Instruments Exporters Confident of Posting Record Profits
The first one was of Intuitive Surgical Inc.
- the industry leader in surgical robotics that has reported second quarter revenue of $351 million, up from $261 million for the same period last year and the second one was from Abbott that has announced financial results for the Q2, confirming double-digit earnings growth outlook for 2010.
Both the news stories confirm the fact that the surgical instruments industry is witnessing a substantial growth and the surgical instruments exporters are confident of posting record profits this year too! Market forces are investing in research and development of more advanced, yet cost-effective surgical instruments.
Abbott, also expects to launch several more products this year and also have several next generation instrument systems for haematology, immunochemistry and blood screening in development.
There have been reports that the global market for surgical equipment will exceed $7 billion by 2016 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 6% from 2009 to 2016.
India and china are going to be the growth engines for this demand due to the increase in their health care infrastructure as well as the increasing preference for minimally invasive surgeries.
Out of the BRIC economies, India and China are expected to grow in excess of 8% for the next two years.
To stay in tune with the market requirement, surgical equipment exporters and suppliers keep looking for latest technologies, to maximize their profits and to bring a sizeable foreign exchange to their country.
Surgical equipment which are specially designed tools or devices for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation comes in wide range of varieties like operation theatre equipment, pipe line accessories, word vacuum with regulator, bpc flow meter with humidifier, mox regulator, safety key plug, orthopedic instruments, bone screws, silicone resuscitators, incubation instruments, rubber accessories, oxygen therapy equipment, surgical blades, blood lancet, disposable blade remover, post mortem knives, prep blades, surgical scissors, re-tractors, needle holders, suture instruments, artery forceps, dissecting forceps etc.