Manufacturing awards: FLEXcon’s new adhesive seeks to change the medical device paradigm

With each new innovation in research and technology comes a new problem in need of a solution.

With medical devices it’s even more prevalent. Sometimes the answer can be found in research done for a different field.

That’s what happened with FLEXcon Co., Inc.’s OMNI-WAVE technology, which came out of research for batteries and is now being implemented by medical device companies as a way to replace hydrogel, the moist and sticky backing used to attach EKG and ECG devices to patients.