ewimed Sweden AB

What ewimed Sweden AB does

ewimed Sweden AB is a privately held Swedish medical device sales and distribution entity, wholly owned by the family-owned ewimed Group headquartered in Hechingen, Germany. Originally founded in 2006 as fenik AB and rebranded to ewimed Sweden AB in 2022, the Stockholm-area company is the Swedish arm of a 500+-employee European group operating in 11 countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hungary, Romania). Its core business is the sale of indwelling tunneled catheters and accessories for long-term intermittent drainage of recurrent pleural effusion and ascites, serving more than 1,000 patients per year in Sweden alone.

The product portfolio centers on licensed PleurX/PeritX silicone indwelling catheters (from BD/Denver Biomedical) and ewimed's proprietary drainova ArgentiC catheter with integrated microsilver for antimicrobial protection. A unique safety valve architecture is engineered to connect only with ewimed drainage sets, locking in single-vendor consumables (drainage bottles, gravity and soft-vacuum reservoirs, valve caps, flush tubes, the Pneu-Pack). In 2025, the company launched ewiApp, a digital patient aid for drainage tracking, training, and reordering. ewimed Sweden distributes directly to Swedish county councils and hospitals under tender contracts, to home healthcare providers, and direct-to-patient for home delivery.

The company runs a sales-led, field-based go-to-market in which all Swedish sales representatives are registered nurses who provide catheter implantation workshops, on-site clinical support, and home-care training for patients and families. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; products are ordered per case (minimum 1 case = 3 sterile catheters) with pay-as-you-go billing processed through healthcare providers or directly via phone, email, or web form. The company monetizes both hardware sales and training/support services, with the catheter installed base generating recurring consumables revenue across multi-year patient lifetimes. In October 2025, Niklas Wiest was appointed CEO of the Nordic cluster (Sweden, Denmark, Norway), succeeding Tomas Jalrup and formalizing next-generation family ownership succession.

Name

ewimed Sweden AB

Legal name

ewimed Sweden AB

Website

https://ewimed.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Drainage Devices

NAICS

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113), Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841), Wholesale-Medical, Dental & Hospital Equipment & Supplies (5047)

akta.pro primary industry

Urinary Catheters & Drainage (Intermittent/Foley Catheters, Bags, Securement) (HLAHALAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Catheter, Tracheostomy & Enteral Feeding (Tube Feeding) Home Care (HSABACAG)

Keywords

• Indwelling pleural catheters
• Ascites drainage devices
• Tunneled drainage catheters
• Medical drainage systems
• Home drainage equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Malmö

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Medical Device Sales: Sale of indwelling catheters (PleurX, PeritX, drainova ArgentiC), drainage sets, and accessories for pleural effusion and ascites treatment. Products are sold to hospitals, healthcare providers, and patients for home use.
2. Product Training and Support Services: Training services provided to healthcare professionals on catheter implantation and home drainage procedures. Support services for patients and healthcare providers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ewimed Sweden AB manufactures and distributes medical devices for long-term intermittent drainage of recurrent pleural effusion and ascites, including indwelling tunneled catheters (PleurX, PeritX, and proprietary drainova ArgentiC with microsilver coating), drainage sets, gravity and soft-vacuum reservoirs, and accessories. The company also provides catheter implantation training and patient self-drainage education through registered nurse sales representatives, and offers the ewiApp digital companion for patient support.

Product overview

ewimed Sweden AB is a medical device manufacturer and distributor specializing in products for drainage of pleural effusion and ascites. The product portfolio includes indwelling tunneled catheters (PleurX™/PeritX™ from BD, and proprietary drainova® ArgentiC with microsilver coating), drainage sets, vacuum and gravity reservoirs, and accessories (flush tubes, valve caps, dressing materials). The company also offers ewiApp, a digital patient support application. Products are designed for home-based drainage therapy, enabling patients to self-manage treatment under healthcare professional guidance. The portfolio operates as a unified system where catheters serve as the core implant component connected to various drainage accessory sets for intermittent fluid removal.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PleurX Catheter

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 1,000 patients in Sweden receive indwelling catheters annually
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Nufer Medical AGminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Swiss medical company that was integrated into the ewimed Group. Supported expansion in the Swiss market.
• BD (Denver Biomedical)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2003Distribution partnership for PleurX and PeritX indwelling catheters for long-term intermittent drainage in the German market (originally) and subsequently other European markets. This treatment for recurrent pleural effusion and ascites was new to the market.
• ewiCare Medical Center (Hungary)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPart of the ewimed Group network in Hungary, providing local presence and support for drainage products.
• Swedish Hospitals and Healthcare UnitscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCollaboration with hospitals and healthcare departments across Sweden for catheter implantation, training, and patient care. ewimed provides training staff and support for healthcare professionals.
• Hannover Medical School (MHH)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for research on infection prevention using microsilver-embedded IPCs and clinical studies on pleural effusion and ascites treatment.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Rocket Medical: Rocket Medical is a UK-based specialist manufacturer of pleural and ascitic drainage products, including pleural catheters and thoracentesis kits, directly competing with ewimed's PleurX/PeritX and ArgentiC catheters in European clinical markets.
• Merit Medical Systems: Merit Medical offers paracentesis and thoracentesis drainage products, including catheters and procedure trays, that compete with ewimed's offering in interventional radiology, oncology, and hospital drainage workflows.
• BD (Becton Dickinson): BD is the original developer and manufacturer of the PleurX and PeritX indwelling catheters that ewimed licenses and distributes in Europe. As the upstream licensor and a global medtech incumbent with extensive drainage and vascular access portfolios, BD is ewimed's most direct comparable for catheter technology and is simultaneously a critical partner and principal competitive threat.
• Cook Medical: Cook Medical manufactures a range of drainage catheters used for thoracentesis, paracentesis, and other fluid management procedures, directly competing with ewimed's indwelling catheter portfolio in hospitals and interventional radiology suites.
• Teleflex: Teleflex manufactures a broad portfolio of vascular access and drainage catheters, including products for pleural and peritoneal fluid management, overlapping with ewimed's catheter and drainage-set business.
• AngioDynamics: AngioDynamics produces drainage and vascular access catheters (including BioFlo port and peritoneal drainage lines) used by the same interventional radiology, oncology, and surgical departments that ewimed serves, making it a direct competitor in tunneled catheter and drainage procedure kits.

Others

• Cardinal Health: Cardinal Health is a major medical product distributor that supplies catheters, drainage sets, and related consumables to hospitals and home-care providers, operating in ewimed's procurement channel as a competitor for distribution relationships rather than direct product overlap.

Emerging players

• Sequana Medical: Sequana Medical develops the alfapump, an implanted pump system for repeated paracentesis in refractory ascites, addressing the same patient population as ewimed's PeritX catheter via an alternative mechanical approach, making it a clinically adjacent emerging competitor.

Broad incumbents

• B. Braun: B. Braun is a large global medical device manufacturer with an extensive catheter portfolio (including peritoneal and drainage catheters) and a strong European hospital salesforce, broadly competing with ewimed across hospital catheter procurement.
• Mölnlycke Health Care: Mölnlycke is a Swedish-headquartered global leader in wound care and ostomy products, adjacent to ewimed's drainage and continence-care space, with similar hospital-channel reach and patient-care orientation across Europe.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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