Accelerating global healthcare with innovative fiber-based solutions
Access to essential healthcare remains challenging for 30% of the world's population. Also healthcare-associated infections continue to affect millions of patients each year, resulting in billions of euros in costs and tens of thousands of fatalities worldwide. As a global leader in sustainable specialty materials, Ahlstrom provides innovative fiber-based medical fabrics and materials for life sciences, which empower global healthcare to enhance efficiency across various processes and better protect people.
We provide solutions in:
- Biospecimen collection and preservation cards
- Lateral flow test pads
- Medical papers & barrier fabrics
- Sterilization wraps
- Laboratory papers and test filters
- Face mask materials
- Chromatography and blotting paper
- Filter media for artificial respiratory devices
- DNA/RNA extraction media
- Pharmaceuticals and personal hygiene
- ...and many more!
Innovation Spotlight
Health-Gard® Medical Paper - Efficient protection of sensitive products
Single-use medical packaging plays a vital role in infection control protocols across healthcare settings by ensuring that medical devices remain sterile, safe, and ready for use. These packaging solutions are specifically designed to maintain sterility from the moment of sterilization through storage, handling, and transportation, up until the device is used by healthcare providers. Ahlstrom Health-Gard® coated and uncoated papers are high performance, medical grade materials tailored for use in hospital pouch and single-use medical packaging.
Innovation Spotlight
Specimen Collection Cards to improve access to diagnosis, especially in resource-limited environments
Ahlstrom’s portfolio of cards for collecting and preserving biological samples offer simple and cost-effective collection, transportation and storage of biological samples at ambient temperature, bringing efficiency and simplicity to the biological fluids sampling process.
On-demand Webinar
Our sustainable solutions for the collection of biological samples
Dried blood spot (DBS) collection has been a trusted method for decades, playing a vital role in newborn screening, infectious disease surveillance, pharmacokinetics, and forensic science. In this session, our expert will introduce you to our range of DBS specimen collection cards - a simple yet powerful solution for accurate and reliable sample collection in diagnostic and research applications.
Explore our advanced solutions
Biospecimen collection & Preservation cards
Fatty acids samples collection card
Plants, fungi, insects samples collection cards
Biosamples collection cards
Long-term DNA preservation cards
DNA elution cards
Automated micro-volume sampling cards
RNA qualification and quantification card
Chromatography and blotting paper
GenSwab™ for collection and preservation of biological samples
Plasma recovery cards
Medical sterilization wraps
Medical barrier fabrics
Laboratory papers & Test filters
Lateral flow test pads
Personal hygiene
Release liners for adhesive medical materials and components
How can we help?
Combining a unique understanding of fibers and science-based technology with innovation, Ahlstrom works to solve various problems to make people's lives more sustainable. There's always a better way to protect our people. Start with us if you're looking for better materials!