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Bayer material solutions in medical spotlight

Bayer MaterialScience, the producer of material solutions for medical applications, will showcase its current developments at the Compamed 2013 trade fair that will be held from 20-22 November in Düsseldorf. These will include Baymedix AP501 and AR602 solvent-free products that can be reacted to form skin-friendly adhesives with hydrophilic nature and adjustable adhesive strength, the company reports. Appropriately adjusted, these formulations are said to allow gentle removal from the skin and will not stick on the moistening wound itself.

15th November 2013

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Leverkusen

Medical/Hygiene, Industrial

Bayer MaterialScience, the producer of  material solutions for medical applications, will showcase its current developments at the Compamed 2013 trade fair that will be held from 20-22 November in Düsseldorf.

These will include Baymedix AP501 and AR602 solvent-free products that can be reacted to form skin-friendly adhesives with hydrophilic nature and adjustable adhesive strength, the company reports. Appropriately adjusted, these formulations are said to allow gentle removal from the skin and will not stick on the moistening wound itself.

Wound dressing

Modern wound management can reduce treatment times with minimum pain or allow patients to be moved from in-patient to out-patient, thus reducing nursing effort and costs.

Polyurethane raw materials of the Baymedix range are used for different applications in wound dressing, such as skin-friendly adhesives, absorbent foams, as well as waterborne coatings for stretchable and resistant backing films.

Bayer MaterialScience also offers Baymedix FP raw materials for reactive foam technology, which are said to enable the production of very smooth and conformable foams that are non-yellowing and fit the moisture management requirements of advanced wound dressings.

Stretchable and resistant films

Bayer MaterialScience has developed a series of Baymedix FD and Baymedix CD aqueous aliphatic polyurethane dispersions for films.

Baymedix FD based films can work as a backing of wound dressing to protect wound contacted area. Protective, breathable and soft touch films or compact foamed films can be formed by transfer coating on foams, non-wovens or textiles, according to the company. For more challenging applications, Bayer MaterialScience offers specially developed crosslinkers together with formulation guidance to increase stability of the film against solvents, disinfectants and other aggressive fluids.

Films based on Baymedix CD are said to allow a very simple formulation that can be processed either as seamless film by dipping or as roll stock film by casting.

The company also offers extruded films made from thermoplastic polyurethane – Platilon and Dureflex, for protective, breathable covering with comfortable wear and polycarbonate materials of the Makrolon range for medical applications.

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