A Medical Device Daily

Hydromer (Branchburg, New Jersey) reported that it has developed a Supply and Support agreement with Ay Tibbi Cihazlar (Ankara, Turkey) a company that manufactures ostomy care and wound care products and catheters.

Hydromer will supply Hydrophilic coating solutions to Ay Tibbi Cihazlar’s Comfort Healthy Care subsidiary for use on the Turkish company’s Nelaton catheters.

Nelaton catheters are short term urinary drainage catheters. The use of the hydrophilic Hydromer coating will serve to enhance the ease of catheter placement and removal, thus minimizing patient discomfort.

In addition to having placed an initial order for the Hydromer coating solution, the client is to make quarterly support payments to Hydromer that are based on a percentage of sales revenue once the product is launched.

According to Martin von Dyck, Executive Vice President of Hydromer, “This is now our third such agreement to provide Hydromer coating technology for the hydrophilic coating of Nelaton catheters.”

Hydromer is involved in the development of polymer and hydrogel products for medical device, pharmaceutical, animal health, cosmetic, personal care, and industrial uses.