ABOUT
RCN
In developing its products, RCN always follows strict guidelines that our products are to be user friendly, comfortable and easy to handle to ensure that the caregivers have more time to spend interacting with their patients.
From shower stools to multipurpose shower-/ commode chairs, from XXL bathing equipment to Shower- and Transport Gurneys, from linen hampers to linen carts and a whole array of multipurpose carts, from isolation stations to chart carts – RCN offers a vast selection of products for the daily care of every person in hospitals and nursing homes alike.
Practical options and friendly colors let you “create” the product that best fits your needs. At the base of all RCN products is our proprietary modular system consisting of the best furniture grade plastic components available.
This makes them extremely sturdy and long lasting, friendly to the touch while offering great versatility in design. Last but not least, all RCN products are guaranteed never to rust. Keeping in constant contact with the professionals in healthcare helps us go beyond the normal role of an innovative manufacturer in designing our products.
We listen to what they tell us what their needs are and how we can make our products so they can make their daily work easier.
Talk to us about custom solutions, we will always try to find a solution that will make you smile! All RCN products are Made in Germany and come with a five year warranty on the plastic structure.
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY
RCN has been a manufacturer of quality healthcare equipment for over 30 years, striving to provide high quality products and to offer the market better solutions through innovation and by staying in touch with its customers.
This outstanding customer interaction allows RCN to always find the most efficient product designs and solutions which makes RCN stand out in the healthcare market.
OUR PHILOSOPHY RESTS ON FOUR MAIN PILLARS: CUSTOMER FOCUS
Direct contact with its customers and its end users is a high priority for us. The customer has been, is and remains the focus point of our activities since only then can we respond best to their needs and offer practical solutions. As part of this focus we offer short delivery time, an outstanding customer service and quality products at an affordable cost.
MOTIVATION AND COMPETENCE
Our employees are motivated, qualified and strive to live up to the company’s goals, they know that the customer always remains the center of our endeavors and that the quality of our products is essential for our success.
MADE IN GERMANY
We develop and manufacture high quality products in the heart of Germany, in a rural area about 100 km west of Frankfurt. In our manufacturing processes we use modern technology as well as rely on hand made skills. We always strive to live up to “Made in Germany”.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability and efficiency are of utmost importance. For us, Economy and Ecology are not in contradiction and we strive to use the Earth’s resources wisely.
Products made by us are the most compelling example of our stated goal given their extreme longevity and their recyclability. Also, we heat our manufacturing plant with renewable energy materials and we gain almost all of our electricity needs from solar installations.
RCN WALKER GW 120
This video offers information on the proper use of the RCN Walker GW 120
HISTORY
COMPANY HISTORY
When you look at the broad product range offered by RCN today it is hard to imagine that it all started a little more than thirty years ago with one product, a simple Shower Chair on wheels.
A product idea that employees of a Nursing Home in Michigan/ USA presented one day to one of our managing partners, who at the time was in charge of operating the Nursing Home, was unlike any chair then on the market.
There was something special about this chair, it had been perceived and developed by people that actually had become frustrated with what they were being offered and that were looking for a better solution; a chair that would not rust, would be safe and would not have to be replaced every 6 months.
They created this chair with furniture grade plastic components that proved to be sturdy, long lasting, easy to clean and warm to the touch. This rudimentary chair actually started a revolution in the health care equipment industry.
Since then we have come a long way, as you will see, but we still use modular plastic components that have become the trademark of our products and we still value the input of those that actually work in hospitals and nursing homes to find the best solutions for their daily work with patients they care for.
Using standardized plastic components and modular design allows us to create an almost countless number of product structures and thus respond to the most specific requests.
Thus, the simple, no rust shower chair has evolved into a product line that shows its origins and the input by healthcare professionals.
Products such as a truly multifunctional Shower- and Commode chair, an anti-tip footrest that always stays with the chair and easily slides back and forth, a safety bar that protects patients from falling out of the chair or a two part toilet seat that allows optimal access, all these and many more features have their origins in requests and suggestions from the healthcare field.
Always willing to listen to its customers’ needs has given RCN its standing in the industry and still is the basis of for our success. Today over 100 employees in two manufacturing plants – in Germany for the European and in the US for the American markets – manufacture and distribute this unique healthcare equipment line.
Innovation and attention to detail and quality interact between the two places and make sure that we stay ahead in the marketplace. Undoubtedly, you can expect more innovative and practical product solutions from our creative team.
TEAM
MANAGEMENT
- Wolfgang Hartmann
- Michael Jung
- Fritz H. Heerdt
BACK OFFICE
From the top left to the bottom right: Dirk Haase, Stefan Sibbing, Frank Lorenz, Uwe Safika, Elfi Kremski, Anabel Ophoven, Sonja Scherer, Janine Müller, Katja Jung, Sandra Schreiner, Bürohund Meggy
