Each day, Medline employees are discovering ways to create new products, produce less waste and deliver what our customers need better, faster and with enhanced value. Founded in , Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving global healthcare company by virtue of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.
Medline holds top-tier market share in more than a dozen major medical product categories around the world. Medline conducts business in 27 European countries, where the company is growing rapidly, and invests heavily in manufacturing and distribution facilities, as well as in our people.
Today in Europe, Medline employs more than 1, associates, including account managers and product specialists to support the European sales network, manufacturing and distribution. Nuns from a nearby hospitals approach A. Resultantly, Mills Hospital Supplies is incorporated and begins manufacturing surgical gowns and uniforms.
Mills Hospital Supply, run by A. Originally named Medco, Medline is founded by A. Charlie, Andy and Jimmy begin running the company, continuing the long legacy of the Mills family in the healthcare industry.
Medline expands their Medline-branded surgical glove lines. The addition of these new gloves gives the company arguably the most comprehensive portfolio available in the market. As an integrated supply chain service, Prime Vendor provides healthcare facilities a single point of contact for all of their medical device consumables, from order management to coordinated deliveries.
It enhances efficiency for customers and frees up space within their facilities, providing significant cost savings. And all of that was before President Trump announced he is invoking the Defense Production Act to ease medical supply shortages, which will make things even more frantic. I get emails and phone calls from acquaintances in the industry, from active customers, non-customers. We are not worried about sales or profits or anything. We need to get through this and everybody needs to be safe.
Inside Medline's headquarters are framed patents for things like flame-retardant medical gowns and a mural made up of 3, bandages. The campus-like headquarters of Medline are in former Kraft Heinz offices, nineteen miles north of Chicago, set back among the strip malls and chain restaurants of Northfield, Illinois.
The sprawling campus is nondescript from the outside but inside it is bustling with activity. The largest privately held medical supplies company in the U.
Starting in early February, Medline employees began receiving desperate calls and emails from all sorts of would-be customers. To meet demand, in January the company applied for tariff relief from the U. The majority of the requests were denied.
Unsurprisingly, a couple of months and a few thousand global deaths later, those requests have largely been granted. Expanding production of the face masks is also proving challenging. Medline sources its single-use masks from the Hubei province of China, where the virus originated, and factories are just starting to open back up this week. But due to shortages, reusable masks are now in great demand.
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