Wound pads and backings
Functional products for wound care and other medical applications
High-performance materials for traditional wound care and other medical applications
Freudenberg Performance Materials manufactures innovative nonwoven components for traditional wound care. Whether for classic first aid dressings, post-operative wound dressings or compresses– our materials offer the right solution for every customer. We offer nonwovens with different absorption levels and wound contact layers to protect the injured skin. High-performance backing materials serve as coating carriers for adhesives and support secure fixation to the body in the finished wound dressing.
Key Features
Wound pads
- Various levels of absorption
- Materials for consumer first-aid dressings, post-operative dressings and high absorbent dressings (including tracheostomy pads)
- Biobased solutions
- Free from chemical bonding agents
- Sterilisable
- Soft and conformable
Backings
- High tensile strength
- Cross-elastic and bi-elastic materials
- Solutions for wound dressings and wound closure strips
- Coatable with adhesives for secure fixation
- Conformable
- Air permeable
Key Benefits
- Protect injured skin and support safe fixation of wound dressings or wearable devices to the body
- Long-term expertise
- Dedicated R&D team
- Bi-elastic backing materials with excellent MVTR* performance keep your wearable device in place and support long wear times.
- Broad technology platform opens up new application fields
- Capabilities for antimicrobial or hydrophobic impregnation
*MVTR = Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate
Highly-effective and versatile components for traditional wound care
Freudenberg Performance Materials offers a variety of technological and innovative solutions:
- Point-sealed (PS), glazed, or net wound contact layers to prevent the pad from sticking to the wound
- Cross-elastic and bi-elastic backing materials that adapt to any movement
- Solutions for plasters, dressings, and wound closure strips
- Bi-elastic backing materials with excellent MVTR rates that help keep wearable medical devices in place and support long wear times
- A broad technology platform that opens up new application fields
For professional applications such as post-operative island dressings, wound compresses, and coverstocks, our solutions provide outstanding functionality and reliability. They are:
- Free from bonding agents
- Suitable for sterilization
- Highly absorbent (up to 11 times their own weight), with fast flow of exudate
- Flexible and conformable