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Medical and Health

Medical Engineering and Health

Medical products and services will remain attractive growth markets in the coming years, even though cost structures of national healthcare systems are getting more constricted.

Schlegel und Partner supports you in realistically assessing market environment and opportunities for your products and in optimizing product features as well as key selling points.

Key Topics
  • Demography and prosperity gains
  • Common diseases
  • Regulations and approvals
  • Financial strength of national healthcare systems
  • Devices for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
  • Medication to food supplements
  • Equipment for hospitals, care facilities and doctors' surgeries

Contact person
Ursula Hosselmann
Director Engineering Markets
+49 6201 9915 42
Contact person
Dr. Annika Trümpler
Executive Partner
+49 6201 9915 74

Institutes for admission / approval

  • FDA, EU directives, admission procedures, clearances

Raw materials

  • Metals, plastics, elastomers, glass fibers, composites, high-performance materials, ceramics, glass

Shaping and molding processes

  • Casting, injection molding, compression molding, extrusion, cutting, milling, grinding, cleanroom

System integration

  • Automation, robotics, production lines, testing technologies, digitalization, cleanroom

Control and regulation

  • CPU, software

Operation and maintenance

  • Invasive, non-invasive, sterilization, reusable, single-use / disposable, healthcare system, service provider, predictive maintenance, warranty, technical distributors

Value Chain

  • Institutes for admission / approval
  • Raw materials
  • Shaping and molding processes
  • System integration
  • Control and regulation
  • Operation and maintenance

Value Chain

  • Institutes for admission / approval
    • FDA, EU directives, admission procedures, clearances
  • Raw materials
    • Metals, plastics, elastomers, glass fibers, composites, high-performance materials, ceramics, glass
  • Shaping and molding processes
    • Casting, injection molding, compression molding, extrusion, cutting, milling, grinding, cleanroom
  • System integration
    • Automation, robotics, production lines, testing technologies, digitalization, cleanroom
  • Control and regulation
    • CPU, software
  • Operation and maintenance
    • Invasive, non-invasive, sterilization, reusable, single-use / disposable, healthcare system, service provider, predictive maintenance, warranty, technical distributors

Exemplary studies

Medical devices
  • The market opportunities for an innovative inhalation system
  • Market opportunities for elastomers in medical engineering
  • Market analysis of medical engineering in China
  • Pre-acquisition for a medical engineering manufacturer
  • Functional printing for incontinence and patient monitoring

Pharmaceuticals and food supplements
  • Market conditions for medical caps and joint venture opportunities
  • Opportunities for a plastics processor in the pharmaceutical packaging market
  • Market opportunities and market gaps for novel supplements targeting gut health, mental health and female health
  • Sales opportunities for chemical health and care additives
  • Opportunities for innovative functional food products with health-promoting effects (e.g. intestinal functions)
  • Market opportunities for a novel product focusing on gluten intolerance
Other health
  • Plastic coverings for hospital beds
  • Door systems in care facilities