Wholesale Medical Supplies Distributor Program: How Importers and Hospital Distributors Buy from HOPE MEDICAL

Six categories are sold through the wholesale medical supplies distributor program. Each hub lists the items, sizes and packing options, and the spec sheet for any item is sent with the quotation.

• Nitrile examination gloves: powder-free gloves graded by weight so thickness can be matched to the task.
• Isolation gowns and medical PPE: caps, shoe covers, lab coats, coveralls, AAMI-levelled isolation gowns and sterile surgical gowns.
• Medical consumables: infusion, respiratory, urology, wound care, tapes and cotton, cold therapy, first aid, specimen collection, enteral feeding and gynecology.
• Incontinence products: adult diapers with tabs, pull-up pants, disposable underpads and patient wipes, plus hospital hygiene products such as wash mitts, maternity pads and sanitary pads.
• Private label supplements: ready-made formulas, OEM and ODM development, nutritional ingredients and pharmaceutical sourcing.
• Medical equipment: hospital beds, oxygen concentrators, nebulizers and other equipment listed on the group's equipment site and quoted through the same team.

A typical mixed order pairs consumables and PPE with hygiene items that fill container volume; pharmacy chains can add first aid, wound care and supplements under their own label.

Importing medical devices means the importer or distributor registers with its own authority: FDA rules in the US, CE marking under the EU Medical Device Regulation in the EU, UKCA marking in Great Britain, and national device registration in many other markets. HOPE does not hold those registrations for you; what we do is supply the documents behind each product so your regulatory file is complete, and say clearly where a document does not exist for an item.

Documents available today, by product and plant:

• Our hygiene materials, dressings, underpads and tapes are produced at the group's own plant in Anhui, which operates a quality management system certified to ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 and holds EU MDR Class I declarations of conformity for underpads, tapes, bandages and kinesiology tape (EU representative: SUNGO Europe B.V.). The Anhui plant completed an amfori BSCI social audit (TÜV Rheinland, 2026).
• Nitrile examination gloves from the group's glove plant in Taishan (Taishan Hope Medical Device Co., Ltd) are covered by an EU MDR Class I declaration of conformity referencing EN 455-1 to -4, and our gloves are manufactured in a facility operating under an ISO 13485 quality management system.
• Our export sales of hospital beds, oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, laboratory and surgical equipment run under the group's ISO 13485:2016 / ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system.
• For items from other production partners, the available certificates and test reports are listed per item on the quotation.

Certificates, declarations of conformity and test reports for the specific product and destination market are provided with the quotation. For UKCA and for markets outside the EU, send the authority's checklist with your enquiry so the file is assembled once, per item.

LCL vs FCL for a medical consumables shipment depends on volume and on how many product lines you combine. With LCL (less than container load) your cartons share a container with other shippers' cargo and you pay by volume, which suits a first order, a registration sample batch or a pharmacy chain testing a line. With FCL (full container load) the container is yours, loaded and sealed at origin, with fewer handling points and usually a lower cost per carton once the volume justifies it.

• Mixed FCL across lines: gloves, gowns, dressings, underpads and supplements can share one container. Light, bulky hygiene items fill the cubic space while glove and consumables cartons use the weight allowance.
• Packing list per line: each product line is listed with its carton count, net and gross weight, carton dimensions and HS code, so a mixed container clears as cleanly as a single-product one.
• LCL in practice: cartons can be palletized for the consolidator; allow for extra handling and a longer port-to-door time compared with FCL.
• Which to choose: if the lines you need fill most of a container, FCL is usually cheaper per carton and safer for the goods; if not, LCL lets you start without overstocking any one item.

Send the item list and target quantities and the quotation includes a loading plan: whether the order fits LCL, a 20 ft or a 40 ft container, and how many cartons of each line.

The EU authorised representative requirement for medical device importers follows from Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR): a device placed on the EU market by a legal entity outside the EU must have an authorised representative established in the EU, named on the label and in the declaration of conformity. An EU importer is expected to check that this representative has been designated before placing the device on the market, alongside the CE marking, the declaration of conformity and the labeling.

For the Class I items supplied through this program that carry an EU MDR declaration of conformity, the EU authorised representative is already in place: SUNGO Europe B.V. (Netherlands) is the representative for underpads, medical tapes, bandages and kinesiology tape from the group's plant in Anhui, and for nitrile examination gloves from the group's glove plant in Taishan. An importer of those items can rely on that representative rather than appointing its own, and the representative's details appear on the declaration and the labeling.

Your own obligations as an importer under the MDR, such as verifying the documents and adding your importer details on the device, its packaging or an accompanying document, remain yours; confirm them with your national competent authority or regulatory adviser. For items from other production partners, whether an EU representative has been designated is confirmed per item with the quotation, together with the declaration of conformity.