 Nadine Blaesing Dymax Corp. Market Segment Manager Visit Website |
Nadine Blaesing is the market segment manager, Europe, for Dymax. She has more than 12 years of experience selling adhesives and providing technical assistance to the medical device market. Although she began her career as an applications engineer in Europe, and later in the United States, Blaesing eventually transitioned into marketing while keeping her focus on the medical device industry. Dymax specializes in the manufacture of light-curable adhesives, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, light-emitting curing equipment, and dispensing systems.
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Adhesives and Epoxies Q&A
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We are looking for a room-temperature medical-grade cure medium for high-viscosity epoxy. The parts we are bonding are made from Pebax (55D) and feature an epoxy surface. The ideal set time is less than 1 hour, and the cure time should be less than 24 hours at room temperature.Answered August 31st, 2010 by Expert:I would initially start looking at either Epoxy Technology’s Epo-Tek 730 or Henkel’s Hysol M-21 HP epoxy adhesives for medical device applications. This is a good place to start, but there are other products on the market as well. Pebax is a copolymer of nylon and urethane-type polymers. The 55D is a mid-range polymer, while the 72D is more nylonlike and 32D is more urethanelike.