Lohmann’s Adhesive Bonding Solutions for Wearables Applications on Skin
The demand for wearables and longwear applications in the medical industry has risen dramatically in recent years, particularly during the global pandemic. In diagnostics, monitoring, and consumer health, for example, the demand for reliable bonding solutions for these devices has grown.
Lohmann designed and released a new portfolio of bonding solutions in response to the increased demand for sensitive and flexible products from sensitive and stressed skin (children, athletes, and the elderly).
They have a lot of breathability, are water resistant, and are easy to remove without leaving any residue.
The Lohmann wearables adhesive solutions are engineered and tailored to the medical industry's applications and design requirements, with highly demanding requirements for long-lasting skin adhesion, permanent changes and fluctuating external influences, low surface energy, rough textures, or sweat.
Each bonding solution is biocompatible and allows for ever thinner and more flexible wearables, whether it's for mobile cardiac telemetry (MCT), continuous glucose or temperature measurement (CGM and CTM), insulin patch pumps or large volume injectors, short- or long-term use, single-sided or double-sided. Patients are more comfortable and mobile as a result of this.
The Lohmann product portfolio supports connectivity features of wearables via electrical conductivity, i.e. for quantifying symptoms via (remote) monitoring devices and thus predicting and preventing future acute episodes.
As patients are becoming stakeholders in their own healthcare journey due to remote monitoring and possible recovery at home, costs for the healthcare system, which is affected by nursing shortage and shrinking budgets, are significantly reduced, too.
An increasingly important aspect in an ageing population and with chronic diseases on the rise.
Meeting the needs of the medical and healthcare industry, Lohmann provides in-house state-of-the-art capabilities, which include adhesive formulation, coating, casting and extrusion as well as clean-room conversion, laboratories and testing as well as die-cutting.
The Neuwied-based adhesive technology specialist is certified in accordance with EN ISO 13485.
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