Intravenous (IV) therapy helps to deliver medications, fluids, and other nutrients directly into the body through veins. IV therapy is used during lifesaving therapeutic treatment and in wellness treatment. Since ancient times, blood therapy has been around, and blood has been viewed as a therapeutic substance. However, lack of proper understanding of blood types, infectious agents, and the absence of ideal materials such as plastics held back IV therapy for centuries. Later, IV therapy became the fastest way of delivering blood products, medications, vitamins, or other vital fluids. IV therapy is usually provided to the patient with the help of an intravenous catheter, either through an injection with a syringe or infusion.

Over the last few years, personal care products have become part and parcel of consumer’s life. It includes array of product such as soaps, liquid soaps, hair gel, hair oil, shampoos, anti-aging face creams, sunscreen products and others. Chemicals used in personal care products range from basic metallic salts and fatty acids used in ordinary bath soaps to the high-end cosmeceuticals that offer beautifying properties of cosmetics with useful benefits of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Plastics have become an inseparable part of modern lifestyle since their formation. Plastics are used for packaging, building and construction, automotive, consumer goods, electronics, and medical devices. To make plastics usable and to increase their processability, plastic additives are required to modify polymer resin. This helps in enhancing several characteristics that manifold the value of plastic materials. Various types of additives such as flame retardants, heat stabilizers, lubricants, and slip additives, blowing agents, antistatic agents, antioxidants, and light stabilizers are used for the modification of polymer resins.

Adhesives are materials applied between two substrates (both metallic and nonmetallic substances) for gluing or bonding purposes. Today, adhesives have replaced bolts and rivets in several applications such as buildings, automobiles, and aerospace. Adhesives provide scope for innovating the design and shape of products. They are widely used in the automobile industry to make lightweight and fully efficient vehicles.

Healthy sex life is a human aspect that has a massive impact on one’s overall wellness. Continuous efforts are being made to spread the awareness of sexual wellness. With end-users getting more educated, along with incremental advancements in technology enabling people to explore the healthy aspects of their sexual life, the concept of sexual wellness has started to achieve significant recognition worldwide.

Silicone sealants are employed to seal objects/surfaces that may be exposed to extreme environments, weathering, temperature, or movement for a prolonged period. Sealants are effective solutions that are elastic, flexible, durable, and reliable. Hence, they can be put to application in harsh conditions, ranging from construction, space, electronics, automotive, medical, and packaging. Silicone sealants are composed of silicone as a primary ingredient. The other essential components that provide silicone sealant their inherent properties are polymers, plasticizers, active reinforcing fillers, passive non-reinforcing fillers, cross linkers, and special additives. Silicone sealants based on their specific application can be readily modified using biobased materials. Through the addition of specific additives and fillers, they can be imparted enhanced electrical/thermal conductivity, resistance to fluctuation temperatures, and optical clarity, among others.

Ultrapure water (UPW) is a highly purified water that has been purified to uncommonly stringent specifications. It is used as a cleaning agent in semiconductor plants. Therefore, the most important factor is that the water is treated to the highest levels of purity for all contaminants. The water should not contain any dissolved impurities that might settle on circuits, thereby leading to the failure of microchips. Hence, the growing applications in the semiconductor industry, especially in APAC and North America, are expected to accelerate the demand for ultrapure water during the forecast period.

UV curable coatings are based on UV curing technology that makes use of ultraviolet light to initiate the reaction. UV-based coating formulations can be applied to a variety of substrates such as paper, wood, metal, and plastic. The technology requires very less space and lesser curing time than conventional technologies. In many cases, the amount of heat generated while curing is also less; therefore, heat-sensitive substrates can also be coated. These UV coatings come in a variety of types such as 100% solids, water-based, solvent-based, pigmented, clear, and various gloss formulations.

Over the past few decades, the pharmaceutical packaging panorama has seen a lot of changes and transformations. The launch of new technologies has lined the way for pharma packaging companies to discover more advanced solutions, enhance their procedures, and drive proficiencies across the supply chain. In the early days, glass medical and drug bottles were common and less costly to manufacture. However, plastic bottles were effective but very costly to produce on a mass scale. Eventually, with innovations, plastic became less expensive. As the production costs of these materials went down, they became the standard options for pharmaceutical packaging. At present, plastic bottles are everywhere in the pharmaceutical field, offering tamper-proof, child-safe options and resilience against water, heat, and impact.

The cloud communication platform includes varied types of solutions which are used to boost the efficiency of business activities. Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC/UCaaS), Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Application Programming Interface (API) are some of the prominent solutions used by industries to increase the effectiveness of operations. Ion addition, with an increase in remote working and work from policy, the penetration of cloud based platforms are boosting at an exponential rate.