Medical Device Cleaning Market Trends

Medical Device Cleaning Market Overview:

The Medical Device Cleaning Market Size is projected to reach USD 3.13 Billion by 2032, with 6.9% CAGR between 2023 and 2032. Medical devices after their certain use needs to be sterile. This is done for the motive of providing the safety to patients and further avoids infections at the site of wound, and incisions. Moreover, the cleaning of the surgical instruments is more crucial and critical task than cleaning other non-medical devices. The surgical instruments are stained with blood, organic materials pus, tissue, and others things which may cause infections to others during its reuse. Therefore, to clean and make the medical devices disinfectant, the medical device cleaning products are used.

The infections acquired through the hospitals are believed to be one of the major concerns that is affecting many patient’s recovery. This also has a major impact on mortality rates worldwide. According to the WHO, the prevention of HAIs, the rising in the duration of hospitalization of persons suffering from HAIs was around approximately 8 days. Therefore, the prolonged stays are a significant contributor to the overall costs incurred during hospitalization. Hence, the growing clinical urgency to adopt various measures for the prevention of such infections is necessary. Prolonged hospital stays of the patients are also not economical for patients, hospitals and healthcare payers due to high usage of resources for the treatment of the acquired infections.

The additional costs associated with the prolonged hospital stays are mostly a result of high usage of drugs, laboratory equipment and additional diagnostic studies, thus creating an imbalance in hospital resource allocation. Greater risk of infection from drug-resistant pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and other infectious agents in the operation rooms is one of the major concerns for hospitals. For instance, the frequent usage of infected urinary catheters creates a high risk of UTI (urinary tract infection) and may result in Catheter-Associated (CA) UTIs. According to NCBI, the research published states that the UTIs accounted for around 25% of all the bacterial infections. Moreover, ss per the National No socomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) system report, the most hospital-acquired UTIs are associated with CA-bacteriuria and catheterization is the most frequently occurring infection worldwide, accounting for around 40% of HAIs in the U.S. each year.

A diabetic patient mostly develops severe UTIs that often require an efficient as well as consistent treatment regimen. This is expected to widen the future growth prospects of the infection control market. Such factors is expected to boost the high clinical urgency to prevent the surgical infection and adopt Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as masks, surgical gloves, that results in a significant increase in the growth of the medical device cleaning market.

Cleaning medical equipment and instruments contributes to patient safety. Various reagents and chemicals can be used to sanitize or disinfect medical equipment. It helps to eliminate microorganisms or an alien substance that infects healthy humans. Maintaining personal hygiene depends on keeping medical equipment sterile and clean. It is crucial to use medical equipment, cleaning supplies, and other supplies to stop the spread of germs, viruses, or other infections. A rise in hospital-acquired infection cases is also anticipated to benefit the market. One of the main factors fueling the growth of the global market for medical device cleaning is the rising demand for various surgical procedures due to various ongoing diseases and medical disorders.

During the projection period, it is anticipated that a significant portion of the market's overall steady expansion will come from the increase in the prevalence of hospital-acquired illnesses. It is projected that growing physician and patient awareness of the advantages of medical device cleaning would present lucrative potential for market growth. Many goods that help preserve the pristine condition of medical devices are easily accessible on the market through offline as well as online methods of distribution. Extreme caution must be taken when cleaning to avoid exposure to biohazardous contaminants. Before disinfection or sterilization, it is best to pre-clean every one of the patient-care devices with water, soap, or an enzymatic cleaner because of their capacity to assist in the breakdown of specific proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates.

Hospital-acquired infections are thought to be one of the main issues hindering the healing of many patients. The global death rates are also significantly impacted by this. As a result, the extended stays account for a sizable portion of the hospitalization expenses. As a result, there is an increasing clinical need to take appropriate precautions to avoid contracting such diseases. Due to the substantial resource consumption for treating acquired infections, prolonged hospital stays are not cost-effective for patients, medical facilities, and healthcare payers. Healthcare providers reprocess surgical instruments to save money and cut waste. The performance and safety of recycled devices have drawn criticism. Patients are at an increased risk for surgical-site infections (SSIs) due to the retention of tissue, blood, and other biological waste in reusable devices due to insufficient instrument cleaning. These factors limit hospital administrators' and doctors' willingness to adopt reprocessing.

The covid-19 pandemic has impacted the medical device cleaning market. The medical device manufacturers have not escaped the pandemic’s impact. Similar to the pharmaceutical companies, the medical device manufacturers also relyhighly on the healthcare facilities for its clinical trial data collection. Many medical device products has to undergo various clinical trials both pre- and post-market before the manufacturers can get the certificates for market approval. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase, medical device companies are finding it difficult to make informed decisions about its products, their supply chains, and proper regulatory obligations in the due to the worldwide pandemic. Medical device professionals have the challenging task of asking for a pause amid covid-19. The pandemic has also opened various opportunities for the medical device cleaning products as the pandemic has increases the demand for it. The ongoing disinfection programs amid coronavirus has boosted the growth of the medical device cleaning market.

Market Dynamics:

The medical device cleaning market is expected to show a considerable growth during the forecast period due to factors such as growing number of the surgical procedures, increasing the covid-19 patients, growing numbers of private and public hospitals, growing availability of the disinfectants for the surgical products and others. The rising demand of the disinfectants is expected to create the high demand for the emerging players to enter the market. This is lowering the threat of entrant in the global medical device cleaning market.

High growing volume of patients suffering from chronic disorders, growing prevalence of geriatric population, rising numbers of private and public hospitals, prevalence of regulatory requirements and compliance, rising number of surgical procedures, growing investments by governments of various countries to improve the primary healthcare infrastructure and rising healthcare expenditure by patients, are some of the key as well as important factors which is expected to boost the growth of the medical device cleaning market during the forecast period 2021-2028. On the other hand, the rising healthcare expenditure along with efficient medical tourism which shall further contribute by generating the greater opportunities that is expected to boost the growth of the medical device cleaning market during the forecast.

Medical Device Cleaning Segment:

Medical Device Cleaning Process Insights

On the basis of process, the market is segmented into disinfection, automatic cleaning, manual cleaning, and presoak/precleaning. Among these, the automatic cleaning segment is expected to grow with the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The automatic washer maximizes the productivity and minimum time requirement provided by the automotive washers are the key factors responsible for the growth of this segment in 2020.

Medical Device Cleaning Application Insights

Based on application, the market is segmented into surgical instruments, endoscopes, ultrasound probes, dental instruments, and other instruments. Among these, the surgical instruments are expected to account for the largest share in medical device cleaning market in the year 2020. The growing prevalence and increasing burden of HAIs and chronic diseases, rising geriatric population, and an growth in the number of surgeries are the primary factors driving the use of surgical instruments, which is expected to boost the demand for effective cleaning and disinfection solutions during the forecast period.

Medical Device Cleaning End Users Insights

Based on end users, the market is segmented into diagnostic centers, hospitals and clinics, dental clinics and hospitals, and other end users. The rising number of clinics and hospitals in various developed countries such as US and Germany is responsible for the larger market share of this segment. Hospitals and clinics are expected to show a growth at the highest CAGR during the forecast period in the medical devices cleaning market.

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Regional Analysis:

The medical device cleaning market is segmented by region into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Rest of World. Among these, the North America is expected to contribute the largest regional segment of the market in the year2020, and the Asia Pacific region to dominate the market during the forecast period. Growing healthcare expenditure in the countries such as US, and Canada, increasing geriatric population, raising prevalence of HAIs, well-established hospital sector, and the growing incidences of chronic diseases are the key factors contributing to the high share of the North American region

Asia Pacific is expected to grow at a highest CAGR in the regional market during the forecast period due to the growing healthcare expenditure in countries such as India, China and Japan, concrete presence of outsourcing organizations, and unprecedented evolution of the healthcare regulations and standards and infrastructure across the region. Additionally, the outbreak of Covid-19 and the high amount of infectious disease are further fueling the market growth in this region. The presence of various, non-government, voluntary and government organizations focused on developing infection control standards is also one of the key factors contributing to the market growth during the forecast period.

Key Players

• 3M Company (US)


• Advanced Sterilization Products (US)


• Pharmax Ltd. (Canada), Stryker Corporation (US)


• Medline Industries Inc. (US)


• STERIS plc (US)


• Getinge Group (Sweden)


• Cantel Medical Corporation (US)


• Ecolab Inc. (US)


• Ruhof Corporation (US)


• Metrex Research, LLC (US)


• Hartmann Group (Germany)


• Oro Clean Chemie AG (Switzerland)


• Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (US)


• Sklar Surgical Instruments (US)


• Biotrol International (US)


• G9 Chemicals (UK)


• Medalkan (Greece)


• Case Medical Inc. (US)


• Certol International LLC (US)

Recent Developments:

Key player in the market are focusing on the R&D for the development of technologically advanced products to gain a key competitive advantage in the global medical device cleaning market. For instance, In April 2020, the U.S. FDA has approved the use of maX2, & maX low-temperature, Steris V-PRO 1 Plus, sterilization systems for decontamination of approximately 750,000 N95 respirators and similar masks each day in hospitals used for the treatment of Covid-19 patients amid the pandemic. This is expected to grow the goodwill of the company in the global market.

Intended Audience

• Government and research organization


• Consulting companies in the Medical Device Cleaning market


• Raw material suppliers


• Research consultants


• Investors and shareholders