ALCO Sales & Service Co

Specialties

Medical Equipment, Parts, Casters & Repairs

Our family has been providing medical equipment, replacement parts and casters to the health care industry since 1952. We pride ourselves on helping each and every one of our customers on an individual basis in order to provide them with the right solutions to their equipment and parts needs. In addition to medical and hospital equipment, we supply a full line of housekeeping, laundry and material handling equipment. We can repair and supply parts for the following medical equipment: Wheelchairs, Hospital Beds, Stretchers, Recliners, Rollators, Power Chairs, Analog & Digital Pillow Speakers, Bed Controls, Bed Motors, Blood Pressure Equipment, Circuit Boards, Flowmeters, Suction, Oxygen Regulators, Hydraulic Pumps, Pneumatic Pumps and more. We provide products and parts for the following manufacturers: ALCO, Amedco, Drive, Everest & Jennings, Gendron, Graham Field, Hill-​Rom, Invacare, Joerns, Medline, Quickie, Stryker, Sunrise Medical

History

Established in 1952.

Alvin Herman Sr., was one of the earliest manufacturers reps in the medical equipment field. Based in Ostrander, Ohio, he covered the Midwest in the 1940’s and early 1950’s. After several successful years in the business, he decided that his future lay, not as a manufacturers rep, but as a business owner in the home health care and wholesale medical distribution markets. So he took his family, wife Helen, and children Alvin Jr. and Darlene to Chicago to find a new beginning in the medical equipment business. What follows is the history of the Herman family’s commitment to provide quality medical equipment to the growing healthcare market. It is also a timeline for the evolution of our company, from a small storefront office, struggling to survive, to a nationwide supplier for every healthcare facility in the United States.

May, 1952

Alvin Herman Sr., and his wife Helen purchase a small, struggling home healthcare business called Koeber’s… (Read more at our website: «About Us»)

Meet the Business Owner

Alvin H.

Business Owner

October, 1965

After completing his commitment to the United States Army, Alvin Jr. joins his father in running the family business. The wholesale part of the business continues to grow quickly as healthcare facilities look for quality distributors to provide them with an ever-​increasing number of medical products.

May, 1970

As a result of their success in the wholesale distribution market, medical equipment manufacturers continue to put pressure on Koeber’s to sell more products to healthcare facilities. Alvin Herman Sr. and his son, Alvin Jr. decide to form a brand new company that will supply quality medical equipment exclusively to healthcare facilities and thus Alco Sales and Service Co. is formed. While Koeber’s will continue to service the growing home healthcare market in the Chicago area, Alco Sales and Service Co., with its’ new office located at 9120 Ogden Ave., Brookfield, IL, will be the Chicago and Midwest distributor for… (Read more at our website: «About Us»)