Streamline medical manufacturing and assembly processes with Henkel medical device adhesives
Henkel’s highly reliable adhesive materials are designed to enable safe medical device applications with the specific process and biocompatibility testing requirements for each type of device.
Loctite products facilitate the design and manufacture of leading-edge medical devices that deliver better patient care, streamline diagnostics and improve patient outcomes.
Devices include:
Benefits of Loctite Products
Structural bonds
Ability to bond dissimilar and difficult substrates
Increased throughput
Rapid fixture and overall cure times
Excellent gap-filling capability
Even stress distribution
Compatible with common sterilization methods such as ethylene oxide, gamma radiation, electron beam, liquid sterilization and limited cycles of autoclave and peroxide plasma
Products 
Light-cure acrylics and cyanoacrylates
Light-cure silicones
Underfill
Conformal coating
Encapsulants
Thermal management material
Low-pressure molding
Light-cure equipment
LOCTITE medical adhesives are tested to the industry’s most comprehensive ISO 10993 biocompatibility standards including:
- Intracutaneous injection
- Systemic injection
- Muscle implantation
- Cytotoxicity (MEM elution)
- Hemolysis
LOCTITE medical adhesives are not recommended for long term or permanent implanted devices in the body or mouth.
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