Mission Statement

To produce feature-rich, ruggedly built, value-priced professional diagnostic medical instruments for the healthcare marketplace while maintaining a stable, dependable employment environment for our associates and trading partners.

History

Bringing together their knowledge of the medical device industry and its needs, Marc Blitstein and Neal Weingart co-founded ADC in 1984. They shared a vision of a company built on long-lasting partnerships with the best component manufacturers in the world, while committing to significant production and quality processes in the United States. The result is a company that`s flexible, enterprising, and more able to work with vendors and customers.

Brands

Our products are marketed under many brands, including ADC®, Medicut™, Adscope®, Proscope™, Diagnostix™, Prosphyg™, Adtemp™, Multikuf™, Adlite™, Pocket Pal™, Responder™, Adcuff™, System 5™, Adflow™, Adview®, E-Sphyg™, and Adimals®. We also manufacture products under original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and private label contracts for more than a dozen of the world`s leading manufacturers and distributors in the acute care, alternate site, nursing, extended care, student, and EMS markets. In fact, ADC is the largest privately held branded and private-label supplier of stethoscopes and blood pressure instruments in the United States. Our products are sold on six continents, in over sixty countries, and are in use by thousands of healthcare institutions and millions of healthcare professionals worldwide.

Locations
Today, our 44,000-square-foot facility in Hauppauge, New York, houses our corporate offices, customer service, quality control, manufacturing, and distribution departments. Sales offices in London, England, and Tokyo, Japan, service our European and Pacific Rim distribution. Additional quality control and sourcing offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Ningbo, China, oversee ADC`s Asian manufacturing facilities.
Key Milestones
Year

Milestone

1984 ADC founded in January 1984 as a direct marketer of emergency medical supplies, operating out of a 700-square-foot storefront in Copiague, New York
1985 Hired our first full-time employee
1987 Relocated to a 4,000-square-foot facility in West Babylon, New York; hired our first developmentally disabled employee
1989 Opened sourcing office in Tokyo, Japan
1990 Produced the first sphygmomanometer aneroid gauges with luminescent dials
1992 Voted one of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Firms on Long Island by accounting firm KPMG
1993 Opened quality/sourcing office in Taipei, Taiwan; shifted much of the Japanese stethoscope component production to Taiwan
1993 Began sourcing sphygmomanometer components from Indonesia
1994 Launched the Adscope line of premium stethoscopes
1996 Relocated to our present-day headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, then with 35,000 square feet of space
1997 Shifted gauge production from Japan and Taiwan to China in exclusive agreement with Nissei
1999 Registered the ADC trademark in the U.S.
1999 Began sourcing digital blood pressure instruments and thermometers from China
2002 Started second-shift production at Hauppauge facility
2003 Marc Blitstein named by Newsday, Long Island`s daily newspaper, as one of their inaugural Everyday Heroes for his employment of the developmentally disabled
2004 Hired our 100th employee
2005 Launched the E-Sphyg, the first and only virtually indestructible digital aneroid sphygmomanometer
2006 Blitstein named to Long Island Volunteer Hall of Fame for his work with the developmentally disabled
2006 Frost and Sullivan named our digital stick thermometer line the best in the industry
2007 Awarded Acute Care Supplier of the Year (Small Company Category) by the Health Industry Distributor`s Association
2007 Awarded ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 quality certification. One of only two companies in our class to hold these quality marks
2008 Expanded Hauppauge facility to 44,000 square feet
2008 Introduced the Adimals line of pediatric scopes
2009 Entered the fingertip pulse oximetry market with our Diagnostix 2100
2010 Opened ADC Ningbo, a three-person quality/sourcing office in Ningbo, China
2010 Launched the ADView, the first modular diagnostic station (blood pressure, temperature, SpO2) in a joint venture with SunTech Medical
2011 Re-engineered our entire blood pressure line to be completely latex-free
2011 Incorporated Microthread technology into our Adflow valves for improved deflation control
2012 Launched our re-imagined retail program to support our brick-and-mortar retailers
2012 Introduced the Adscope 606, the world`s first ultra-lightweight cardiology stethoscope
2013 Launched our completely redesigned website and published a dozen product videos
2014 Celebrated our 30th anniversary in business
2014 Launched our Designer Series print cuffs, Cuffs for a Cause, our fifth generation of Advantage Home BP monitors, and a bariatric cuff -- an industry first
2014 Launched our expanded line of Diagnostix™ and Adstation 3.5v EENT instruments
2014 Upgraded the Adscope line with new packaging, laser engraving, and Adsoft Plus snap-on silicone eartips
2014 ADC Ningbo becomes an FDA registered facility
2015 Moved final production of 700 items to the U.S.
2016 Launched the ADView 2 modular diagnostic station and our re-engineered line of Adcuff SPU blood pressure cuffs
2016 Redesigned our product labels to be UDI compliant, as much as two years ahead of schedule
2016 Launched a line of Pro`s Combo Plus super-premium professional scope/sphyg sets
2017 Launched our PMV 3.5v Otoscope and doubled the EENT offering to over 1200 SKUs
2017 Opened a new office In the UK to support our European expansion
2017 Entered into a joint venture to open a manufacturing facility in Suzhou China
2018 Launched the Adscope LE limited edition line of decorated stethoscopes in 21 models
2018 Worldwide employment tops 160
2018 Finalist in the HIA-LI Large Employer of the Year
2019 Celebrated our 35th Anniversary
2019 Launched the e-sphyg 3 NIBP monitor
2020 Winner of the HIA-LI Large Employer of the Year

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