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Digital Conference on Role of Plastics in the Medical, Healthcare &
Pharmaceuticals Sectors - Emerging Opportunities
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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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