Lohmann Tech. Goes Green With New Adhesive Products

The DuploMED 2S and DuploMED 3S adhesive products can be cleaned and sterilized in a washing machine (without tape, of course) and then reused. Company executives said the reusable fabric portion of the product can reduce environmental waste by at least 95 percent compared with disposable products.

“This is one of the fastest growing market needs in Europe,’’ said Jim Perkins, Lohmann Technologies’ vice president of Medical and Converting. “Our German parent company has been a strong supporter of this green initiative by the European medical industry. Single use disposable medical products produce a large volume of waste that takes years to decompose.’’

Lohmann Technologies is a Hebron, Ky.-based custom adhesive coater that works with G&L Precision Die Cutting LLC, a full service converter in San Jose, Calif., to provide pressure sensitive solutions to the medical device industry. Both are member companies of Orange, Va.-based Lohmann Corporation USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lohmann GmBH of Germany.

Lohmann Corporation acquired G&L Precision last fall to expand its presence in the medical device market. G&L specializes in tight-tolerance rotary and flat bed die cutting, slitting, laser cutting, printing and multilayer laminating. The company has been a component supplier for more than 30 years to the diagnostic, medical device, specialty industrial, electronics and commercial markets. Lohmann Corporation President Steven De Jong said the acquisition filled an important role in the company’s global growth plans.

“We now have a base of operations to support our growth in the western U.S. while also gaining access to the growth market of point-of-care medical devices,’’ he said at the time of the acquisition. “With the existing coating and die-cutting capabilities we have in the U.S., it made perfect sense to expand our presence with the addition of G&L.’’