Henkel’s adhesives and electronic materials facilitating design of medical devices

Henkel’s adhesives and electronic materials have facilitated the design and manufacture of high-quality medical applications, engineered to streamline diagnostics and improve patient comfort and outcomes. The company has recently expanded its portfolio of wearables.

Henkel’s Loctite light-cure adhesives are commonly used for housing, sealing, and bonding applications — including for medical devices.

Henkel’s technology portfolio includes high-impact solutions for low-pressure molding technologies, skin bonding, assembly adhesives, as well as adhesives for electronics and printed electronics. Its Medical Device Adhesives (MDA) are tested to the industry’s most comprehensive ISO 10993 biocompatibility standards.

In addition, the company employs strict manufacturing and quality controls to ensure continuity of compliance.

Recently, the company has worked to adapt a molding technology, that was originally used in industrial electronics for wearable medical applications. The new technology is medical-grade and skin safe, replacing the typical clamshell housing, which requires multiple components and assembly steps, with a single-step over-mold design.

With this technology, Henkel offers a significant process-saving step that contributes to lower production cost, especially when there’s a high volume of production.

“At Henkel, we believe that offering a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions to our customers is the sustainable way to drive innovation and growth for businesses,” explained Philipp Loosen, head of Industrials EIMEA and Global Key Accounts Medical at Henkel. “We are proud to expand our product portfolio of medical wearables into the market to further support our customers and eco-system partners with an efficient and reliable healthcare solution. With our products and technologies, we help to redefine the way people access and monitor their health.”

Henkel will showcase its wearables portfolio at the 44th Wearable Technologies Conference 2023 USA from August 1-2, 2023, in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.