ABOUT Q-MED

Q-Med is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, markets and sells high quality medical implants for esthetic and medical use. The majority of the products are based on the company’s patented technology, NASHA™, for the production of stabilized non-animal hyaluronic acid.

The company today has approximately 650 co-workers in 20 countries, with approximately 400 at the company's head office and production facility in Uppsala. Q-Med AB is listed in the Mid Cap segment of the NASDAQ OMX Nordic.

Q-Med has as its overall objective high growth combined with good profitability. Q-Med shall consistently strive to meet its customers’ and other stakeholders’ expectations and needs, through constant improvements in quality and constant training. Q-Med also strives to give its shareholders a competitive return on their invested capital both in the short and long term.

The product portfolio consists of:

Esthetics

Restylane® is an internationally leading product family for esthetic beauty treatments. The products are used for smoothing out wrinkles and lines, for filling out and shaping lips, defining facial contours and improving the quality of the skin. Restylane is the world’s most documented injectable hyaluronic acid product for esthetic use and has been on the market for more than 13 years. Over 11 million Restylane treatments have been carried out all over the world.

Macrolane™ VRF is the first series of products on the market that makes it possible to shape the body without surgery. When Macrolane is injected, the gel can enlarge breasts, create volume and smooth out defects on the body. The advantages of the treatment are immediate and long-lasting, without being permanent. The hyaluronic acid in Macrolane is similar to that of the body and is therefore broken down naturally.

Hospital Healthcare

Deflux® for the treatment of a malformation of the urinary bladder in children. Durolane™ for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee and hip. Solesta™ for the treatment of fecal incontinence.

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2009 IN BRIEF

  • Restylane® obtained registration approval in China and became the first injectable non-animal hyaluronic acid product on the Chinese market.
  • In January 2009 Q-Med launched a new type of injection device: Restylane® Injector which simplifies the rejuvenation treatment. Restylane Injector won the prestigious Red Dot Design Award – one of the worlds’s most well known design prizes. 
  • Q-Med introduced Restylane® Lidocaine and Restylane Perlane™ Lidocaine
  • Q-Med AB and Oceana Therapeutics, based in the US, entered into global agreements regarding commercialization rights to Deflux® and Solesta. Q-Med received the first payment of 60 MUSD from Oceana Therapeutics in June 2009.
  • Q-Med was chosen as the seventh best Nordic company in climate questions by The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in competition with the 200 largest companies listed on the Nordic stock exchanges. Q-Med came top of the hospital healthcare projects.
  • The Solesta™ study for the treatment of patients with fecal incontinence to be used for submitting a Premarket Approval (PMA) application to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) achieved both of its main objectives
  • The Thin Wall Needle was introduced. The Thin Wall Needle is a 29G needle with a greater inner diameter compared with ordinary needles developed exclusively for Q-Med within the esthetics area.
  • By the beginning of 2010 FDA approved Restylane and Restylane Perlane with added lidocaine in USA.