hestomed history - 30 years of medical technology for the emergency services

History

More than 30 years of commitment to emergency medicine

We have been a reliable partner for customers in emergency medicine since 1990. What began as a subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based EHS Group has developed into an independent, dynamically growing group of companies - especially since the takeover by the current owners in 2004.

Founded as HESTO-MED Vertrieb medizinisch-technischer Artikel GmbH in St. Egidien, our name was created from the first letters of the founding companies Haeberle, Erbe, Stihler and the "O" for East Germany.
We started out as a full-service provider for hospital facilities in East Germany and gained our first experience in emergency services.

After the retirement of the founding generation, Steffen Helms, Michael Weiß and Dirk Rothschild took over the company. HESTO-MED became hestomed GmbH - with a clear focus on hospitals and emergency services. The team grew, new partnerships were formed and certification as a manufacturer of gas systems followed in 2007. The first own brand was born.

With falling demand in the hospital sector and growing price competition, our focus shifted nationwide - but the challenges remained.

Despite the tense market situation, we continued to invest. The founding of hestomed nord GmbH and the acquisition of Med-Fix GmbH marked the expansion in the direction of emergency medicine. Based in Stockelsdorf, the team now serves customers in northern Germany.

The acquisition of Werkzeugbau Hartmann GmbH in Chemnitz was a milestone. It enabled us to secure new manufacturing expertise - independent, flexible and quality-orientated.

With the reorientation towards emergency medicine, we said goodbye to the hospital business. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Dräger regional agency was added, as was a new delivery service for medical gases.

We expanded our business with consumables in the emergency services - and with the acquisition of hestomed+helbig Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. KG on 1 January 2019, we grew strongly once again: the team doubled to around 90 employees.

Over 100 people work at hestomed with the common goal of continuously improving emergency medicine. An important milestone project was the new warehouse and administration building in Widdern, which covers an area of 14,000 m². The move took place in spring 2023.

At hestomed, everything continues to be characterised by further development. Michael Weiß, our long-standing partner and managing director, is leaving to take on new challenges - we would like to thank him warmly for more than 20 years of dedicated collaboration!

From now on, teamRED will accompany all interested parties on our journey on behalf of our hestomed colleagues.

bluesafe - intelligent materials management for the emergency services
RFID-supported, digitally networked and securely locked: With bluesafe, consumables are stored in a controlled and documented manner and can be retrieved at any time. For smart inventory management - from the individual cabinet to the entire system.

Materials management

Material that thinks for itself. Processes that take the strain off.

Quickly mounted, safe to use:
The redfix device holders are lightweight, crash-tested and reduced to the essentials. Whether Perfusor or Infusomat - with redfix you are always ready for use.

Brackets and fastening systems

Quick to install, safe to use

redconnect & EpiShuttle - Secure. Flexible.

Digital. Whether Stryker® stretcher, incubator or isolation chamber: redconnect is the key to digital special transport solutions. Extremely lightweight, fully compatible - including with the EpiShuttle - and ideal for ground and airborne applications.

Special solutions

Special transport, smart solution

Safe. Flexible. redox.

Whether fixed in the vehicle or mobile in use: redox systems regulate pressure & flow reliably, crash-tested and Made in Germany - equipped for every application.

Gas supply

Modular gas supply for the emergency services

Contact us

How to reach us

hestomed GmbH

Am Eichenwald 13
09356 St. Egidien

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hestomed+helbig Medizintechnik GmbH & Co.KG
Hildegard-Helbig-Straße 5
74259 Widdern

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+49 6298 3753 100