B. Braun Melsungen AG Company Profile by CMR

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B. Braun Melsungen AG Company Basic Information, and Sales Area

Item	Description
Company Name	B. Braun Melsungen AG
Website	www.bbraun.com
Established Date	1839
Headquartered	Germany
Market Position/ History	B. Braun Melsungen AG was founded in the year 1839 as a pharmacy in Melsungen, where it started to sell medical herbs by mail to customers in Germany. Later, a manufacturing plant was built, where production of several medical products began, mainly surgical sutures. With this product, Braun had started to supply to hospitals, and in following decades the company had added other product lines to their manufacturing program, like intravenous solutions, monitoring apparatus and other medical devices. In the 1960s Braun had become highly specialized in plastics for pharmaceutical and medical uses, and developed the first plastic container for I. V. solutions in 1956, as well as many other products for patient care in hospitals. B. Braun had acquired Aesculap AG, a Germany-based manufacturer of surgical instruments. In 1969 the company had introduced Lyodura.
Sales Area	Worldwide
Contact Information	Carl-Braun-StraBe 1, 34212 Melsungen Germany Tel: +49 5661 710 Fax: +49 5661 714567

Business Segment/ Overview:

B. Braun Melsungen AG is involved in Medical Equipment Manufacturing industry and is also a leading company in medical technologies. The company has a team of around 66,000 employees worldwide. The company has their specialties into Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Continence Care & Urology, Degenerative Spinal Disorders, Diabetes Care, Infection Prevention, Extracorporeal Blood Treatment, Infusion Therapy, Vascular Diagnostics, Wound Management, Neurosurgery, Nutrition Therapy, Ostomy Care, Pain Therapy, Regional Anesthesia, Laparaoscopic Surgery, Spine Surgery, Clinical Nutrition, and Orhopaedic Joint Replacement.

B. Braun has more than 5.000 different healthcare products, of which 95% are manufactured by the company. The company has their offices and production facilities in more than 60 countries. The company has several subsidiaries namely Aesculap AG, B. Braun Medical Inc., SteriLog GmbH, B. Braun Surgical S.A., B. Braun Medical Limited, B. Braun of America Inc., and many more.

Urostomy Bags Product Types Specification

Product

Product Description

Flexima Uro Silk Flat Urostomy Bags

One-piece urostomy bag systems

• The Flexima Uro Silk convex urostomy bags are designed for people with flush or slightly retracted urostoma.
• They offer an anti-reflux valve to avoid urine backflow and an easy to handle and secure B. Braun drainage tap with 'open' and 'close' positions

Advantages:

Secure outlet:•   Uro-specific outlet with open/closed position
•   Fits in perfectly and is strengthened by a click and a final locking system
•   Easy to handle, secure and hygienic: no residual drops on fingers
•   Can be connected to a night drainage bag by using the universal connector provided in the box (click at connection)
•   The universal connector has an anti-twist design and can freely rotate to avoid tubing twisting

Colours and bag capacity:

•   Bag capacity (ISO 8670-2): +/- 630 ml
•   Cut-to-fit Ø12-55 mm: transparent and beige
•   Pre-cut Ø20 mm, Ø25 mm, Ø30 mm and Ø35 mm: transparent

Material and Packaging:

•   Soft non-woven and odour-proof plastic film
•   Free of latex (PVC) and phthalates (DEHP)
•   Boxes of 30 urostomy bags and 30 universal connectors

Flexima Active O' convex Urostomy Bags

One-piece stoma bag systems

• The skin protector of Flexima Active O' convex is flexible and presents a gentle slope for a homogeneous pressure distribution and great skin tolerance.
• The urostomy bags offer an anti-reflux valve to avoid urine backflow and an easy to handle and secure B. Braun drainage tap with 'open' and 'close' positions

Advantages:

Gentle convexity:

•   Convexity to reduce leakages of flush or slightly retracted stomas
•   Soft slope of 6 mm provided by an integrated soft flexible ring
•   Atraumatic edge profile
•   Three positions for belt fixation and to intensify the effect of convexity (1,2)
Secure outlet:
•   Uro-specific outlet with open/closed position
•   Fits in perfectly and is strengthened by a click and a final locking system
•   Easy to handle and secure: no residual drops on fingers
•   Can be connected to a night drainage bag by using the universal connector provided in the box (click at connection)
•   The universal connector has an anti-twist design

Colours and bag capacity:

•   Cut-to-fit Ø15-35 mm, transparent
•   Bag capacity (ISO 8670-2): +/- 670 ml
Material and packaging:
•   Soft non-woven and odour -proof plastic film
•   Free of latex (PVC) and phthalates (DEHP)
•   Boxes of 10 urostomy bags and 10 universal connectors

Recent Developments:

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Profile Details

Author Nisha Deore
Published 03 May 2023
Last Updated 23 Oct 2023
Reading Time~5 minutes
CoverageSWOT, Financials, Key Employees, History

- 1.1 About B. Braun Melsungen AG
- 1.2 Key Facts
- 1.3 Key Employees
  - 1.3.1 Key Employee Biographies
- 1.4 History
- 1.5 Locations & Subsidiaries
  - 1.5.1 Head Office
  - 1.5.2 Other Locations & Subsidiaries
- 2.1 Company Overview
- 2.2 Business Segments
- 2.3 R&D Overview
- 2.4 Brands
- 2.5 Key Company Statistics
- 2.6 Key Financials (2015–2019)
- 2.7 Share Holder Analysis
- 2.8 Regional Presence
- 2.9 Services Offered
- 3.1 Strengths
- 3.2 Weaknesses
- 3.3 Opportunities
- 3.4 Threats
- 3.5 Key Competitors
- 4.1 Company Metrics
- 4.2 Key Investors
- 4.3 Recent Funding & Valuation
- 4.4 Historical Funding & Valuation
- 5.1 Acquisitions
- 5.2 Partnerships
- 6.1 Latest News & Announcements
- 6.2 Strategic Initiatives
- 7.1 Summary of Findings
- 7.2 Strategic Recommendations

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