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Medical devices and Paper and packaging

Medical devices buys from Paper and packaging; medical devices depends on paper and packaging.

Medical devices (industry) and Paper and packaging (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹2.7 per ₹100 · Medical devices buys from Paper and packaging

Medical devices buys goods or services from Paper and packaging; counted through every round of supply, ₹2.7 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹2.7 of every ₹100 of Medical devices output, all rounds
  • ₹1.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Paper and packaging → Medical devices

1 of the enterprise types in Medical devices depend on paper and packaging.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Contract device manufacturers: sterile-barrier packaging (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.