Coatings
Hemoteq, a Freudenberg Medical company, is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for drug-device combination products (DDCP), specialty coated medical devices and components, and functional coatings including hydrophilic coatings.
With a proven track record backed by more than 25 years of 360° expertise, Hemoteq provides advanced coating design, product and process development, regulatory strategy, and volume production of DDCP and specialty coated components.
Coatings
Hemoteq, a Freudenberg Medical company, is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for drug-device combination products (DDCP) and specialty coated medical devices and components including hydrophilic coatings.
With a proven track record backed by more than 25 years of 360° expertise, Hemoteq provides advanced coating design, product and process development, regulatory strategy, and volume production of DDCP and specialty coated components.
Consistency and Reliability.
Guaranteed.
Medical device companies often struggle to achieve reliable, uniform coatings that enhance performance without compromising biocompatibility or durability. Balancing regulatory requirements, precision application, and long-term adhesion, especially on complex geometries, can present significant technical and manufacturing challenges.
Drug-Device Combination Products
Our coatings reliably and precisely deliver a wide range of active pharmaceutical ingredients with a specified release profile that ensures optimal clinical performance.
We have extensive experience in customization and volume production of DDCP such as drug eluting stents, drug coated balloons, drug delivery coatings of non-vascular implants and devices.
Drug Delivery Coatings
Playing a vital role in implants and biosensors by enabling localized, controlled release of therapeutic agents directly at the target site, for example for cochlear implants that improves hearing for patients who suffer from severe hearing loss from inner-ear damage.
The application of suitable drug delivery coatings can improve efficacy and reduce systemic side effects. These coatings must be precisely engineered to maintain biocompatibility, ensure adhesion to device surfaces, and achieve consistent release profiles over time.
Hydrophilic Coating Solutions
Our advanced UV hydrophilic coating technology is designed to reduce surface friction and deliver exceptional lubricity. A single-step coating process ensures precise control of coating thickness for superior durability and uniformity.
Benefits include low particle generation, rapid and long-lasting wetting and technical services along the entire life cycle to enable efficient production, either in-house or outsourced to our facilities. Royalty-free models and fast feasibility studies provide shortened development times as well as full cost control.
Surface Modifications
We tailor surface properties of medical devices and components to our customers’ needs. Properties include:
- Wettability
- Reduced friction
- Anti-tack
- Controlled drug release
We utilize various technologies to achieve our aims. This includes altering surface coatings, physically (e.g. microstructuring); additive processes that modify surface (e.g. plasma treatment), and also coating & finish (dipping, spraying, drop-drag processes).
AI-enhanced visuals of the micro-crystalline surface of a drug-coated balloon
Custom Coating
The excipient and drug coating formulation that we develop inhouse is protected by our intellectual property, undergoing significant testing and multiple production phases in their development.
Additional patents and team knowledge accrued over two decades, help provide peace of mind to customers utilizing our technology.
Automation
We have developed best-in-class coating machines that use automated elements to ensure consistency, precision and reliability for our customers. This includes the software used, and, where needed, we can calibrate coating settings to ensure repeatability.
Our extended team across Europe and the US is trained to meet exacting standards required to meet customer expectations. Managing this process inhouse ensures time-to-market is accelerated and mitigates supply chain issues.
Services
With 100+ patents, we support our customers across a range of coating-related services that include:
- Coating design
- Design for manufacturability
- Coating process development & scale-up
- Iterative prototyping, pilot production
- Design verification & process validation
- Interface services for external testing
- Interface services for preclinical
- Regulatory services
- Volume coating production capacity
- Coating technology transfer
- Coating/Assembly of finished ophthalmology devices including catheter shafts and handles
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Industry Expertise
Hemoteq (a Freudenberg Medical company) have 25 years experience as a leading CDMO for device drug combination products and specialty coated medical devices and components
Technology
100+ patents with drug coatings for device drug combination products. Hemoteq has also developed proprietary high-performance cost-effective, hydrophilic lubricious coatings applicable to virtually any material used in medtech.
Network
As a company, Freudenberg Medical have expanded their network through the acquisition of Hemoteq which has enabled greater strategic insights and opportunities for developing new solutions that meet market requirements.
Vertical Integration
Integrated value chain for hydrophilic coatings, managing process life cycle from start to finish (coating, assembly). Additional sites with associated expertise in the Freudenberg ecosystem are leveraged where needed to meet materiality and coating objectives.
