COMPAMED 2025
COMPAMED 2025, the world’s leading trade fair for cutting-edge medical technology, will take place in Düsseldorf from November 17 – 20.
Visit us in hall 8A at booth no. G04.
Next-level silicones. Designed for health care.
Whether you’re developing advanced wound care systems, transdermal drug delivery technologies, or high-performance MedTech equipment — we have something new for you.
- SILPURAN® eco 2114: Silicone gel adhesive with a lower product carbon footprint
- Silicone gel adhesives: Optimized for transdermal drug delivery, tested with 20 active ingredients
- Silicone elastomers: Special grades for medical and pharma tubing
Selection of applications for WACKER’s health care silicones:
Transdermal patches:
SILPURAN® series
- Product development study
- Active ingredient is included into silicone matrix
- Various release types possible
- More than 20 tested substances
Medical tubing:
ELASTOSIL® series
- Very good leachables and extractables profile
- Extremly durable due to excellent mechanical properties and high bursting strength
- Low friction materials for easy assembly available
Wound care and fixation:
SILPURAN® series
- Strong, but gentle fixation
- Wound dressings, wearables and sensors
- Biocompatible
Medical devices:
ELASTOSIL® series
- Easy automated processing
- Extremely tear resistant, highly elastic and remarkably resilient
- Serve as good elastic sealing materials
Stoma care:
SILPURAN® series
- Optimal breathability and moisture transmissibility
- Customized adhesive strength
- Great elasticity
Prosthetics:
ELASTOSIL® series
- Skin friendly and long lasting
- Mammary prostheses
- Liners
New: Medical skin adhesive SILPURAN® eco 2114
At COMPAMED 2025, we will present SILPURAN® eco 2114. It is a medical silicone skin adhesive developed using a certified mass balance method. By incorporating bio methanol as the alternative raw material, the product delivers a demonstrably lower Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) compared to its conventional fossil-based equivalent.
This certified product is identical to its fossil counterpart in terms of specifications, quality and performance. Customers do not need to alter their formulations in any way.
With SILPURAN® eco 2114 customers replace its fossil counterpart SILPURAN® 2114 seamlessly.
- Biocompatible; certificates of compatibility with USP Class VI and ISO 10993 available on request
- No by-products from curing process
- Medium viscosity, easily pourable
- Very good adhesion, typical value 3.5 N/2.5 cm (90° peel test, on stainless steel)
- High transparency
New: Transdermal drug delivery from silicone gel adhesives
If transdermal delivery is a topic for you: Meet us! Our experts from the WACKER Health Care Competence Center in Ann Arbor, USA have conducted a product development study.
Transdermal patches are increasingly being used for non-prescription and cosmetic applications. WACKER therefore focused on developing silicone gels that can be used for administering the most common substances.
The goal was to achieve maximum and tailored release properties while maintaining the structural integrity of the adhesive coating. The active compound was embedded to a silicone gel matrix that is a maximum 300 micrometers thin.
More than 20 active ingredients have been tested:
- Therapeutic drugs, e.g. dexamethasone, ibuprofen
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, e.g. diclofenac
- Antimicrobial active ingredients
- Over-the-counter (OTC) active ingredients, such as caffeine and melatonin
- Dietary supplements, e.g. curcumin
- Vitamins, e.g. vitamin E, niacinamide (vitamin B3), retinol (vitamin A) and vitamin C
- Active ingredients commonly utilized for personal care and wellness applications
- Herbal remedies
Self-Adhesive ELASTOSIL®
Thanks to patented self-adhesion technology, our liquid silicone rubber bonds reliably with polycarbonate, polysulfone and other high-performance thermoplastics without time-consuming pre-treatment. This is ideal for the cost-effective large-scale production of multicomponent medical-technology parts such as respiratory masks, drug delivery systems or devices for minimally invasive surgery.
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ELASTOSIL® for medical technology
Applications range from seals, valves, septa, filters and membranes (such as those in syringe seals or membranes for needle-free injection systems), to respirators and respiratory bellows, handles for equipment and instruments or mats for sterilization trays.
Extrudable solid silicone rubber compounds are extremely tear resistant, highly elastic and remarkably resilient at the same time. They are used in numerous pharmaceutical and medical tubing applications, such as drainage, breathing and feeding tubes, urinary catheters and tubes for fluid transfer or in peristaltic pumps.
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Q&A silicones for medical applications
- Silicones are suitable for the fixation of all devices that need to be attached to the body: insulin pumps, EEG sensors, location sensors for dementia patients – even wearables can be fixed with soft silicone adhesives. WACKER SILPURAN® silicone gels offer a broad spectrum of adhesion strengths and properties. Products like SILPURAN® 2114 match the adhesive strength properties of certain acrylic adhesives.
- Find out how the ostomy care expert Trio Healthcare uses SILPURAN® silicone adhesive to attach ostomy systems and improve patients’ quality of life by avoiding the acute skin irritations so common with conventional commercially available products.
WACKER SILPURAN® skin adhesives may not achieve the same adhesive strength as aggressive acrylic adhesives, but wear times can be impressively long compared to commercially available “sensitive” acrylic systems, depending on individual conditions and the type of dressing. Wear time can be prolonged by selecting a strong silicone adhesive like SILPURAN® 2114 or SILPURAN® 2122.
Yes, wearables attached with SILPURAN® silicone adhesives be cleaned and reused. For easy-to-handle products, we recommend separating the fixation element from the medical device in the product design. This makes it very easy to clean the product and replace the adhesive elements.
Our ELASTOSIL® R plus 4305 series is perfectly suited for the extrusion of tubes used in the production of pharmaceutical products. The addition curing material shows very good mechanical properties and is biocompatible. ELASTOSIL® R plus 4366 is the material of choice, where reduced friction is required to make the end application easier, e.g. where silicone slides over another surface. Therefore, it is especially suited for peristaltic pump hoses. Another grade targeted for the use in peristaltic pump hoses is ELASTOSIL® R plus 4360 with high rebound resilience and low compression set.
ELASTOSIL® LR 3078 enables considerable advantages when it comes to the large-scale production of multicomponent medical-technology parts: first, the material bonds reliably with polycarbonate, polysulfone and other high-performance thermoplastics in 2K production process. Second, our self-adhesive technology makes pretreatment unnecessary.
Yes, our ELASTOSIL® LR 3078 easily bonds with above mentioned high-performance thermoplastics, even without pretreatment. That’s a huge benefit, especially in cost-effective large-scale production of medical-technology parts such as respiratory masks, drug delivery systems or devices for minimally invasive surgery.
