Wound Care Adhesive Solutions

Taking your products further.

Adhesives Research (AR) has been developing and manufacturing custom adhesive and coating technologies for the medical industry for more than 25 years. We offer our partners complete material solutions through polymer synthesis, formulation, coating and laminating. Our enabling technologies deliver heightened performance and novel capabilities to advanced wound care product designs. We manage a robust, documented product development process to assure that we meet your exact application requirements. The foundation of ARs quality system is based on our ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certifications. Substrate

advanced wound care technologies

AR offers a full range of custom adhesive technologies coated onto carefully selected substrates best suited for addressing the specialized needs of skin contact and advanced wound care dressing applications. ARs release liner technologies, tailored to the precise release values required for your product, are a key component for improving ease-of-dressing applications in any patient care setting.

low-trauma adhesives
ARs non-silicone, low-trauma PSA technology mimics the gentle properties of silicone adhesive platforms with the added benefit of offering aggressive, intimate skin contact with virtually painless and residue-free removal. Adhesive

Absorbent Core

long-term wear adhesives

Designed for long-term wear applications up to seven days, our aggressive, tailorable acrylic adhesive technology offers high moisture vapor transmission rates (MVTR) for breathability, excellent wear properties with minimal edge lift, and no residue.

Adhesive

Release Liner

c o m p o n e n t s
Bio-Compatible Adhesives
Low-trauma platform Long-term wear Acrylic chemistries Porous Latex-free rubber/hybrid formulations Antimicrobial

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Substrates

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Release Liner
Silicone and non-silicone Tailored release properties Films and kraft papers

Absorbent Core
Polyurethane foam Nonwoven Contact layer Non-adherent pad

Polyurethane Polyester Nonwoven Bacterial barriers High MVTR materials

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porous
ARs porous technology offers a low-density, highly permeable adhesive layer. The adhesives pores form stable, non-collapsing channels to enable the flow of fluids and/ or gases in the Z-axis direction. This customizable technology demonstrates MVTR up to 9,000 g/m2/day to enable long-term wear applications.
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dissolvable films
Our dissolvable film technology provides an efficient medium for stabilizing sensitive reagents, delivering therapeutic agents or dispersing pigments. Dissolution rates are completely customizable to enable each pre-measured film strip to deliver a specified release over time.

put our experience to work for you

Our adhesive and film technologies offer unique functional capabilities for enhanced product design and performance. Contact us to see how we can work as your complete material supplier for providing the customized adhesive, film and release liner technologies to take your products further.

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Porous
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic chemistries Custom pore size Tailorable tack Free exchange of fluids and/or gasses High MVTR

t e c h n o l o g y
Long-Term Wear
Wear times up to 7 days Bonds to difficult wound sites Minimal edge lift No residue Radiation stable

Dissolvable Films
Customized dissolution rate Delivery mechanism for healing agents Stable, dry format for sensitive reagents Pigment carrier Pre-measured dose

Low-Trauma
Gently removes from skin and hair Repositionable Mimics silicone performance High MVTR Removes without residue Gamma sterilization

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