Medical materials and products make an essential contribution to healthcare every day. They protect patients, support healing processes, replace damaged tissue, and enable precise diagnosis and effective treatment. Whether wound dressings, implant components, medical aids or innovative biomaterials, their performance begins with the quality of the materials from which they are made. Reliable testing is therefore essential to assess material properties, functionality and safety throughout product development and across the entire product life cycle.
FILK's accredited testing laboratory supports manufacturers, suppliers and development partners with a comprehensive portfolio of testing services for materials, components and selected medical devices. By combining expertise in materials science with many years of testing experience, we assist our customers from material selection and product development through quality assurance to failure analysis. With our interdisciplinary expertise in polymers, biomaterials, collagen, textiles and functional composite materials, we provide integrated testing and analytical solutions – from raw materials and individual components to finished medical devices.
Our material and product testing services include physical, mechanical, chemical and functional testing of polymeric materials, films, functional layered systems, textiles, biomaterials and other flexible materials. We evaluate individual materials, components and finished products with regard to their mechanical properties, material behaviour and fitness for purpose. Depending on the application, our investigations include strength, elongation behaviour and other material- and product-specific characteristics that are critical to the performance and reliability of medical devices.
One of FILK's core areas of expertise is the testing and characterisation of collagen-based materials and other biomaterials for medical applications. Building on decades of experience in the research, modification and testing of collagen, we have extensive expertise in the investigation of native and processed collagen materials and their physical, chemical and functional properties. Our testing provides valuable data to support the development of new biomaterials and innovative medical products.
In addition, we investigate moisture management and other functional material properties that are particularly important for skin-contacting and wound care products. Our services include, for example, testing of water absorption, water vapour permeability and other material characteristics that provide valuable information on material performance under conditions relevant to practical use.
Our chemical analytical services focus on the determination of regulated and product-specific substances and material characteristics. Our investigations include the analysis of formaldehyde as well as other chemical testing of polymers, textiles, functional layered systems, biomaterials and collagen-based materials.
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