How the best perform... smile after smile
— Hu-Friedy

Our Story

With over 200 years of collective experience in the dental industry, HuFriedyGroup is a global leader in dental instrument manufacturing, infection prevention, and instrument reprocessing workflows. HuFriedyGroup helps dental professionals be the best in practice by providing a complete circle of protection in the dental suite, bringing together world-class products, services, education, and communities that result in superior clinician performance, clinical outcomes, and safety for clinicians and patients. Headquartered in Chicago, HuFriedyGroup products are distributed in more than 100 countries, and the dental division maintains offices in Germany, Italy, China, and Japan.

A Proud Heritage and a Focus on the Future

Founded in 1908, Hu-Friedy is a global leader in the manufacturing of dental instruments and products designed to help dental practitioners perform at their best. Its 10,000-plus products, hand-crafted by highly skilled artisans, are known for their precision, performance, longevity, reliability, and quality.

From a simple beginning in 1953, as a disposable towel/bib manufacturer, Crosstex has steadily grown to become one of the world's leading providers of infection prevention and control (IP&C) and compliance solutions. Crosstex is a recognized leader for its portfolio of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), Dental Water Management, Chemistries, Sterilization, Preventives, Nitrous-Oxide Equipment, and Single-Use Disposable products.

As one of the world’s leading dental instrument and product companies, we continue our commitment to advance dental performance by supporting these products with world-class service, education and peer communities.

In 2021, HuFriedyGroup was acquired by STERIS, a leading provider of infection prevention and other procedural products and services. HuFriedyGroup is proud to be the dental business segment of STERIS.


WHO WE SERVE

Our greatest success is our customer's loyalty

Simply creating an excellent product is no longer enough

In order to maintain our strong relationships with the dental community, we strive to consistently create and deliver new products and opportunities that ensure the best care for patients.

UNIVERSITY

In Hu-Friedy we believe the university world represents the future of the dental sector.

That’s why we have created our dedicated Hu-Friedy University Program, developed to establish a direct connection between students, Universities, Institutions and our Company.

Our main goal is to promote a high level of support for students and faculties providing them with the innovative products and solutions throughout their careers.

PRACTITIONERS

Dental Professionals are an important part of our community.

A heritage of exceptional craftsmanship, a dedication to customer service and customer support, a unique passion for community engagement. Since 1908, Hu-Friedy has been putting the highest quality and most innovative dental products in the hands of dental professionals worldwide.

We are proud to sponsor educational events for clinicians throughout Europe and offer additional educational online resources. We seek not only to make these assets easily accessible, but also meaningful and relevant.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS

Hu-Friedy has built strong partnerships with our dental distributors and rely on that relationship to reinforce our key messaging and company vision. In order to support this, we offer private consulting services.

In order to support them in supporting us, we offer consultancy on Hu-Friedy products.

Strategic Markets

Institutions

Hu-Friedy stands behind quality products and excellent service. We understand the need to implement tailored programs on time and within budget for the various Institutions we support, including hospitals, government, and military.

Group Practices

Group practices rely on Hu-Friedy now more than ever. As the number of group practices grow, Hu-Friedy is there to help them realize efficiencies and productivity gains through our unique solutions and personalized attention.


OUR HERITAGE

It's all about experience

Hu-Friedy has more than 100 years of experience developing and manufacturing high-quality dental products for the global market.

A Legacy of Innovation

From our inception, we have proudly collaborated with private practitioners, dental schools and leading educators to develop new technologies, innovative designs and quality products that are synonymous with value and performance.

Because of our reputation for leadership, dental experts have been turning to Hu-Friedy with their cutting-edge ideas for over one hundred years.

A Proud Heritage and a Focus on the Future

Since 1908, Hu-Friedy has been putting the highest quality and most innovative dental products in the hands of dental professionals worldwide.

And today, as one of the world’s leading dental instrument and product companies, we continue our commitment to advance dental performance by supporting these products with world class service, education and peer communities. We’re committed to making sure the best perform that way.


CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Hu-Friedy's positive impact on the world around us

HU-FRIEDY VALUES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT - FROM OUR CUSTOMERS TO FRIENDS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

Fostering lasting relationships and sharing our gifts and talents is a large part of what defines Hu-Friedy as a company. A global initiative team leads the allocation of resources, coordination of initiatives and communication to create engagement and maximize Hu-Friedy's positive impact on the world around us.

Through our commitment to social responsibility and dental community support, Hu-Friedy strives to::

  • Identify initiatives and causes that align with our social responsibility core value, focusing on the areas of Healthcare, Education and the Environment

  • Support Dental Industry Organizations in their missions to positively impact the community and profession

  • Promote Education and Growth of the field by recognizing accomplishments and rewarding success

  • Provide Guidance and Share Our Knowledge to help advance the dental profession


Contact

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Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC.

European Headquarters
Astropark Lyoner Str. 9
D-60528 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone: +49-6924753640
Fax: +49-6925577015

Free Call:
Phone: 00800 48374339
Fax: 00800 48374340
https://hufriedygroup.eu/en
info@hu-friedy.eu