Action Products, Inc

Employee size

51-200

Organization type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Hagerstown, MD

Founded

1970

Action Products, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells medical products and other polymer-based products. Its product range includes operating-room patient positioning and support surfaces, home medical wheelchair cushions and adaptive pads, and pressure-injury prevention products made primarily from proprietary Akton® viscoelastic polymer.

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