DELO Industrial Adhesives enters medical electronics market

DELO Industrial Adhesives, a Germany-based adhesives manufacturer, has begun its foray into medical electronics applications. 

The company plans to apply its advanced adhesives, miniaturisation, and raw materials expertise to the development of medical technologies such as glucose monitoring patches, biosensors, and microfluidics, as well as to produce new medical-grade adhesives for future customers’ specific applications and requirements.

The medical electronics industry is a rapidly evolving sector, with new and innovative ways to give patients state-of-the-art care to stay on top of their health. Wearable electronics have particularly become a stronghold in this sector, with smart watches coming with integrated health-focused capabilities such as heart rate monitoring, step counting and fall detection. These features and much more demonstrate how medical and consumer electronics industries have begun to merge.

As a manufacturer of bonding materials, DELO has partnered with companies in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. With its stronger focus on medical electronics, the company sees a new opportunity to help customers forge innovations as it has in other sectors. One such innovation is lab-on-chip technology, which uses semiconductors to detect and monitor the development of diseases. DELO will be able to contribute here with its knowledge in optoelectronics and miniaturisation.

Managing director Dr. Karl Bitzer said: “We not only have cutting-edge adhesives with a sharply increasing number of medical certifications for non-cytotoxic products. For our future customers, we will also release more specialised medical-grade products and, more importantly, bring our semicon manufacturing, miniaturisation, and equipment expertise to market, enabling and supporting our customers to develop astonishing new products, scaling up production and efficiently mass-manufacture them.”