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Larson Medical Products, Inc. was founded in 1989 as Larson Products, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio. The founding partners were Lester M. Larson, PhD. and his son, Peter M. Larson, who is currently President and CEO. |
| Our technical expertise dates back to the 1960's, when Dr. Larson was working as a research chemist at the Dupont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. It was there he created the world's first thermoplastic splints in collaboration with Occupational Therapist Dorothy Kester, O.T.R. Dr. Larson further refined and later published this work at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in 1967. |
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| Dr. Larson authored 10 US and Canadian patents regarding splinting materials and participated in the development of Prenyl™ and Orthoplast™, the world's first commercially successful thermoplastic splinting materials. His work provided the foundation for all of today's low-temperature thermoplastic splinting materials.
In 1999 Larson Medical Products, Inc. began a collaboration with Dr. Deren Zhan of Guangzhou, P.R. China. This partnership led to the introduction of modern thermoplastics to the Chinese medical community and the founding of Klarity Medical and Equipment Company (www.klarity-medical.com), China's leading manufacturer of medical thermoplastics.
Today Larson Medical Products, Inc. manufactures a broad variety of medical thermoplastics sold under Larson trade names, and trade names of our distributors throughout the world. |
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