From concept to commercialization
As a customer-focused organization, Avery Dennison Medical values building lasting collaborative relationships. Together, we generate new ways to introduce and develop solutions that improve patient care: our products are designed for effective and user-friendly use in every scenario.
We are a fully-integrated solutions provider, we design, develop, and manufacture high-quality and reliable products in collaboration with our customers. We have sufficient expertise in house to develop a whole new adhesive formulation, in response to a specific market or customer need.
Throughout all medical product development stages, we prioritize strong partnerships with our customers leading to the best solutions to specific challenges, consistently maintaining a sharp focus on the end users’ needs.
Our ongoing Rresearch into new adhesive solutions in the medical industry
In a quest for continuous innovation, Avery Dennison Medical remains vigilant in identifying emerging market trends, addressing user needs and exploring new avenues.
Our R&D experts continuously identify and evaluate development opportunities for new adhesive solutions that do not yet exist in the medical industry.
Collaborating with our marketing department and conducting extensive market research, our Advanced R&D department uncovers opportunities to revolutionize surgical care, wound care, skin care, ostomy management, and patient monitoring, including wearable solutions.
Medical device research and development
One of Avery Dennison Medical’s strengths is our ability to support customization and new medical product development. We support our partners with tailored product design, prototyping, application-specific testing, including human wear trials, supportive data packages, as well as scale-up and full production with validated processes.
Through advanced testing methodologies and state-of-the-art clean room facilities, we validate the performance and reliability of our products. Avery Dennison Medical’s experts are typically onsite for active R&D testing, assisting our clients to manage the complex reality of developing customized medical solutions for challenging applications.
Our experience in manufacturing and medical device development with ISO 13485 quality standards, combined with extensive materials and adhesive expertise, allows Avery Dennison Medical to assist companies throughout all stages of their medical product development processes.
We also have vast experience in running human wear trial programs for application-specific testing, where we specifically design prototypes to the shape and form of the medical device to closely mimic performance.
New medical products in development
Avery Dennison Medical’s teams across the globe have decades of experience in medical product R&D and in assisting medical device companies with materials selection for the design and development of new high-quality medical devices.
Some of our current R&D efforts focus on the identification of more sustainable adhesive formulations, leading for example to the development of solvent-free adhesive solutions. We also develop new medical solutions with recycled or recyclable materials, or by reducing the use of certain materials while maintaining similar performance.
Moreover, Avery Dennison Medical’s experts conduct research to evaluate the performance of different types of adhesives for medical wearable devices with medium to long wear time (+21 days), responding to an intensified demand for wearables suitable for increasingly long wear time.
