Homecraft AbilityOne is located
in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in the UK, and is one of the worlds leading
suppliers of Products for Easier Living and Rehabilitation to Commercial
Dealers, Consumers, and Clinicians including Occupational Therapists
and Physiotherapists in the NHS, Social Services and Private sector,
Within the AbilityOne organisation, and also distributed by Homecraft
are Kinetec Continuous Passive Motion and Traction devices, Rolyan
therapy products and Sammons Preston Rolyan’s extensive rehabilitation
range.
Homecraft AbilityOne was started in 1943,
and began by supplying craft materials to Occupational Therapy
Departments. Following the passing of “The Disabled Persons’
Act” in 1971 “Aids to Daily Living” were introduced
of into the Homecraft range. Over the next 25 years Homecraft
became the UK market leader and a major force in the International
markets for the manufacture and distribution of Daily Living Products.
In 2002 the AbilityOne Corporation of
the US acquired the Rehabilitation Division of Smith and Nephew,
which had purchased Homecraft in 1995, and already included Kinetec
in France and Rolyan in the US.
Bringing these companies together with their existing US market
leader Sammons Preston, positioned the company as the world’s
leading Rehabilitation distributor with the most comprehensive
range of products currently available.
Kinetec is based in Tournes, France and was founded in 1975 to
manufacture traction frames to help immobilize patients in orthopaedic
beds. The business, which holds a strong market position, offers
traction frames and continuous passive motion (CPM) machines,
as well as a variety of accessories.
Rolyan entered the rehabilitation market in 1975 when it introduced
Rolyan Polyform, the first low-temperature thermoplastic splinting
material and has since developed a full range of hand splints
and exercise product.
