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Digital Conference on Role of Plastics in the Medical, Healthcare &

                       Pharmaceuticals Sectors - Emerging Opportunities
                                                       th
                                       held on 27  May 2020 | Online


























         This  was  the  8  webinar  in  series  organised  on  the   Plastic based Medical & Healthcare Industry Products are
         significant  topic  –  Role  of  Plastics  in  the  Medical,   in the frontline playing a crucial role in ensuring that the
         Healthcare  &  Pharmaceuticals  Sectors  –  Emerging    right technologies are available for healthcare providers
         Opportunities                                           and  patients  to  combat  the  virus.  With  the  massive
         Our expert panelists for the day were: Chairman   &     demand  for  personal  protection  equipment  (PPE),
         Moderator – Dr. Asutosh Gor, Past President, AIPMA; Mr.    surgical and N95 masks, ventilators and testing kits, it
                                                                 has been necessary to look for solutions domestically.
         Kishore Khanna- Managing Director -  Romsons Group of
         Industries  &  Jt.      Co-ordinator, Association  of  Indian   And Indian entrepreneurs have stepped up to fulfil the
         Medical  Device  Industry  (AIMED);  Mr.  SR  Shivshankar,   demands  through  innovation,  repurposing,  and
         CEO, ACG Films & Foils; Mr. Manoj Bhardwaj, Managing    bolstering the production of essential goods.
         Director, SMC Medical Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd.. Mr. D L   In  terms  of  factors  affecting  the  Future  of  the
         Pandya, Editor & CEO, Medical Plastics Data Service.    Pharmaceutical  Packaging-  (1)  Sustainability,  (2)
         It is a very significant topic for the industry point of view   Sterilization and Anti- counterfeiting, (3) Reduction in
         as COVID-19 is changing the face of Healthcare at an    costs for more affordable healthcare, (4) Compliance
         unprecedented  pace.  It  has  highlighted  the  need  for   packaging  &  Digitization,  solutions  like  Bio-polymers
                                                                 Polyglycolic  acid  (PGA)  with  high  tensile  strength,  as
         efficient  responses  to  urgently  required  goods  and
         services. Perhaps never before has there been as much   well as high barrier properties and Bio-monomers are
         urgency in ensuring the supply of equipment crucial for   undergoing  further  innovation  to  boost  their
         frontline workers, essential services providers, and the   hydrophobic resistance properties, heat resistance etc.
         population at large, in such a short time.



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