Antibacterial Glass Market Size

Antibacterial Glass Market Size

Antibacterial glass market size exceeded USD 210 Million, in 2019 and is estimated to grow at over 7.5% CAGR between 2020 and 2026. Increasing demand for antibacterial glasses from hospitals and healthcare facilities to prevent the bacterial and fungal related disease spread primarily will spur the market growth.

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains are major threats to human health and pose significant clinical and economic challenges. The use of metallic ions such as silver, copper in glass design as an antibacterial material continuously kill bacteria on the glass surface and lower the risk of infections. This has led to increasing adoption of antibacterial glass in hospitals across the globe in last few years.

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Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI), also known as nosocomial infections are infections that patients contract while receiving health care. HAIs are likely to be the most common complication of hospital care. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that, in American hospitals, HAIs account for an estimated 1.7 million infections and 99,000 associated deaths every year resulting into positive impact on increased the antibacterial glass market demand from hospital applications.

The spread of COVID-19 across the globe has increased pressure of healthcare industry leading to increasing construction of hospitals, healthcare facilities and COVID centers to offer required treatment and beds for the patients. The pandemic has also resulting into increasing number of populations visiting hospitals per day. This will further increase the risk of HAI’s across the globe thereby driving the antibacterial glass market growth. The onset of the pandemic has further highlighted the importance of hygiene, and disinfection of medical devices thus propelling the demand for antibacterial glass.

Industry players are rapidly investing in research & development in an attempt to design high quality antibacterial glass for several applications other than hospitals, including, household, food & beverage industry, military equipment, electronics along with several others.  With increasing concern related to infectious diseases along with the performance limitations and safety of organic biocides, the antibacterial glass market poses wide range of opportunities for the market growth from wide range of application industries.

Increasing antimicrobial product adoption in consumer electronics such as tablets and phones is expected to boost the antibacterial glass market share during the forecast period. There are various antimicrobial doping systems for screen cover glass. Notably the use of medical industry grade ionic silver in screen glass to kill the microbes by the release of silver ions at a sufficiently high concentration is increasingly used in electronics industry which will have huge impact on market growth. However, low product penetration coupled with higher price associated with antibacterial glass may hamper the market growth.