What DMF Medical does

DMF Medical Incorporated is a Canadian medical device company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The company develops and commercializes mem*sorb™, a next-generation CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits that uses patented polymeric hollow fiber membrane technology to passively separate CO2 from the re-breathing circuit, replacing the traditional chemical CO2 absorbents used in anesthesia machines. mem*sorb™ is offered in two machine-specific variants — MS-DR for Dräger Fabius, Primus, Perseus, and Zeus workstations, and MS-GE for GE Aisys machines — with a 24-month useful life that eliminates the daily replacement cycle of single-use chemical absorbers and reduces machine-side moisture, dust, and chemical by-product exposure.

The company's business model is a direct enterprise hardware sale to hospitals and medical centers, with units priced at cost-per-hour-of-surgery parity to chemical absorbers and replacement cycles of up to 24 months. The product is currently licensed for sale in Canada only, with CE-marked IFU-EU versions referenced, indicating preparatory activity for European markets. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales supported by a professional product support team and content marketing through the memsorb.com website, with clinical evidence presented at anesthesiology conferences such as ESA and NAVAt.

DMF Medical operates as a privately held corporation with no disclosed institutional investors, funding rounds, leadership team bios, headcount, or revenue figures. The technology has a single-product, single-product-line architecture anchored on patented membrane science, and the value proposition is supported by clinical data indicating 35%+ reductions in anesthetic vapor consumption when paired with low-flow anesthesia techniques, alongside the elimination of recurring chemical waste, storage, and disposal logistics.

Name

DMF Medical

Legal name

DMF Medical Incorporated

Website

https://dmfmedical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DMF Medical is a Canadian medical device company founded in 2011 that sells mem*sorb™, a patented membrane-based CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits, directly to hospitals using Dräger and GE anesthesia machines. The device replaces daily chemical absorbers with a 24-month reusable filtration unit.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Anesthesia CO2 Filtration Medical Devices

NAICS

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113)

akta.pro primary industry

Anesthesia & Respiratory Gas Delivery Equipment (Breathing Circuits, Vaporizers, Gas Mixers) (HLAHAGAK)

Keywords

• Anesthesia CO2 filtration
• Medical membrane devices
• Anesthetic circuit filters
• CO2 absorbent replacement
• Anesthesia consumable devices

Headquarters

HQ city

Halifax

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Medical Device Sales (mem*sorb™): Sale of mem*sorb™ CO2 filter devices to hospitals and medical centers. Priced at equivalent cost per hour of surgery compared to traditional single-use chemical absorbers, while eliminating inventory, storage, and disposal costs. Revenue is generated through product sales with 24-month replacement cycle per unit.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DMF Medical designs, manufactures, and sells mem*sorb™, a next-generation CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits that uses patented polymeric hollow fiber membrane technology to separate CO2 from the re-breathing circuit via passive diffusion. The product replaces traditional single-use chemical CO2 absorbents used on Dräger and GE Aisys anesthesia machines, offering a 24-month useful life and is sold directly to hospitals and medical centers.

Product overview

DMF Medical offers a single unified product — mem*sorb*™ — a next-generation CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits. The product uses patented membrane technology to filter CO2 from anesthetic circuits rather than absorption via chemical reaction. Two variants are available: MS-DR (compatible with Dräger Fabius, Primus, Perseus, and Zeus anesthesia machines) and MS-GE (compatible with GE Aisys anesthesia machines). Both variants offer up to 24 months of useful life, significantly longer than traditional single-use chemical absorbers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• mem*sorb™: Next-generation CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits using patented membrane technology. The product is compatible with Dräger and GE anesthesia machines and has a 24-month useful life.

Products and services

• mem*sorb™ (MS-DR) — Dräger-compatible CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits Next-generation CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits using patented polymeric hollow fiber membrane technology; replaces daily chemical CO2 absorbents on Dräger Fabius, Primus, Perseus, and Zeus anesthesia machines and offers a 24-month useful life. Targeted at hospitals and medical centers performing surgery under general anesthesia.
• mem*sorb™ (MS-GE) — GE Aisys-compatible CO2 filter for anesthetic circuits Machine-specific variant of mem*sorb™ that clicks into place on GE Aisys anesthesia machines in place of the existing chemical CO2 absorber; uses the same patented membrane technology with a 24-month useful life. Targeted at hospitals and medical centers using GE Aisys anesthesia platforms.

Quantifiable outcome

• Anesthetic vapor consumption reduced by 35%+ when anesthesiologists adopt low-flow techniques enabled by membrane filtration
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Teleflex: Teleflex offers anesthesia and respiratory products including CO2 absorbents and breathing circuit components, placing it in direct competition with mem*sorb™ across hospital anesthesia consumables.
• Penlon: Penlon manufactures anesthesia equipment and related consumables, including CO2 absorbents used in its anesthesia workstations, competing with mem*sorb™ in the CO2 absorption segment of the anesthesia circuit.
• Intersurgical: Intersurgical manufactures respiratory care and anesthesia products, including Spherasorb and other chemical CO2 absorbents that compete directly with mem*sorb™ in the anesthesia breathing circuit. Direct overlap in CO2 absorption and breathing circuits makes it the most comparable peer.
• Armstrong Medical: Armstrong Medical supplies anesthesia consumables including CO2 absorbents, positioning it as a direct competitor to mem*sorb™ for hospital anesthesia circuit replacement products.
• Vyaire Medical: Vyaire Medical is a respiratory care specialist with a product portfolio overlapping anesthesia breathing circuits and gas management, comparable to mem*sorb™'s hospital respiratory focus.

Broad incumbents

• ICU Medical (Smiths Medical): ICU Medical's Smiths Medical business supplies anesthesia and respiratory devices, including airway and gas management products, providing overlapping offerings to the same hospital customers as DMF Medical.
• GE HealthCare: GE HealthCare manufactures the Aisys anesthesia machines that mem*sorb™ is designed to integrate with. As a large incumbent with broad perioperative offerings, GE is both an enabling OEM and a competitor for the CO2 absorption consumable category.
• Dräger: Dräger is a leading anesthesia machine manufacturer (Fabius, Primus, Perseus, Zeus) whose hardware mem*sorb™ is designed to integrate with. Dräger also offers consumables and absorbers within its broader perioperative portfolio, making it both an OEM partner and a competitive threat.
• Philips: Philips operates broadly in hospital respiratory and perioperative care including patient monitoring and ventilation, adjacent to DMF Medical's anesthesia gas management focus as a large incumbent in the same hospital customer base.

Others

• Medline Industries: Medline is a major medical supplies distributor and manufacturer whose anesthesia and respiratory offerings touch the same hospital procurement channels DMF Medical targets, even though its portfolio is broader and not focused on CO2 filtration specifically.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dmfmedical
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dmf-medical-incorporated

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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