Medical and healthcare

Ahlstrom's offering for the medical and healthcare industry features high-perfomance specialty papers and nonwovens used e.g. in the operating room, for hygiene and strerilization and in woundcare.

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Face masks

Ahlstrom has designed lightweight, highly breathable nonwovens for use as inner and outer facemask cover stock.

Life sciences filtration

Ahlstrom has been supporting the growth of the life sciences market by providing laboratory and diagnostic filtration products, most of them available in finished sizes.

Medical pouches and reels

Ahlstrom’s effective bacterial-barrier paper for packaging sterilized medical devices is sealable, peelable and printable.

Pharmaceutical packaging and labeling

Exact labeling for pharmaceutical and medical products can only be achieved with pressure sensitive labels.

Plasters, bandages, tapes

Our Silca™ Classic and Silca™ Light supercalendered release papers can be used to protect adhesive on self-adhesive plasters, transdermal patches and adhesive bandages.

Sterilization wraps

Ahlstrom offers many specialty papers and nonwovens for medical sterilization applications such as inner or outer wrap, bags, pouches or even gauze dressing.

Surgical drapes

Ahlstrom offers a wide range of single-use medical fabrics, including surgical drapes

Surgical gloves and gowns wraps

Ahlstrom offers sterile barrier systems well suited as overwraps for surgical glove, drape and gown.

Surgical gowns

Ahlstrom offers a wide range of single-use medical fabrics, including surgical gowns.

Ahlstrom offers a complete line of nonwovens specifically engineered to be used as a base material for several wound care products, such as undercast paddings, wound dressings, surgical tape and dressing pads.