High performance medical fabrics
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As experts in barrier protection our nonwoven medical fabrics are used to make surgical gowns and drapes, pleated face masks and protective apparel.
These high performing medical fabrics are used around the world in surgical and clinical environments to protect patients, healthcare and frontline workers against viruses, bacteria and fluids.
- PureArmor® BVB protective apparel fabric is specifically developed for environments sensitive to particle contamination like a laboratory, with its low lint and particle shedding. It’s strong, soft, highly breathable and provides an excellent barrier
- TrustShield™ product portfolio has single-use medical fabrics that are laser resistant, protect against chemical permeation, biological hazards and are highly absorbent
- TenderGuard™, a unique portfolio of remarkably soft, comfortable, and protective medical fabrics. Our proprietary technology produces super soft fabrics used to make a face masks that are extremely comfortable for the wearer
Sterilization wraps
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Our range of sterilization wraps is developed to maintain the sterility of surgical instruments until the point-of-use, protecting patients' safety.
Our Reliance® range of fabrics can be used for sterilization wraps, packaging systems and absorbent tray liners.
- Crepe, wetlaid and SMS fabrics in a variety of colors and basis weights
- Reliance® Fusion, our next-generation sterilization wrap, incorporating the best properties of cellulose-based and polypropylene-based materials
- Reliance® Solo single-step wrapping solutions offer two bonded sheets of SMS for faster wrapping and unwrapping without compromising sterility and aseptic opening
- Reliance® Tandem interleaved solutions combine different technologies, each offering specialized performance properties for wrapping. The use of two colors clearly differentiates between the two layers during transport, storage and in the operating room allowing damage to be easily seen
Health-Gard® Medical Paper
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Single-use medical packaging ensuring that medical devices remain sterile, safe, and ready for use.
Ahlstrom Health-Gard® coated and uncoated papers are high performance, medical grade
materials tailored for use in hospital pouch and single-use medical packaging. Made of virgin
fibers, Health-Gard™ Medical papers deliver exceptional performance during the converting, sealing and sterilization process of medical devices, working with the most common
sterilization methods.
