From Shanghai to Times Square: The Factory Story Behind Chinon Medical Teaching Models

Short answer: This October, the Nasdaq MarketSite billboard in Times Square carried the name of Shanghai Chinon Medical Model & Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. — the manufacturing arm behind the Chinon Medical teaching-model range and behind Ada Med Supply Limited’s export business. The screen is new; the factory is not. Here is the story it points to, in the company’s own numbers: a production base in Shanghai’s Songjiang Industrial Zone, three ISO management systems, and eight teaching-model families built under one roof since 1998.

The billboard was the announcement — the factory is the record

A billboard compresses a company into a few seconds. The useful history sits underneath:

Shanghai Chinon Medical Model & Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
MEDICAL TEACHING MODEL · OEM / ODM · MANUFACTURER
Since 1998

Two decades of manufacturing is not a claim a screen can prove. The dates that can:

• 1998 — the company begins developing and manufacturing medical teaching models
• 2008 — ISO 9001 quality-management and ISO 14001 environmental-management certification is obtained
• 2012 — the company finances a new production base in Shanghai’s Songjiang Industrial Zone
• 2013 — the base opens; roughly 2,000 m² of office space and 14,000 m² of production workshops
• 2010, in between — during the Shanghai World Expo, the company supplies first-aid training products for volunteers

The production base, in numbers

In-house mould making and material development are, in the company’s own account, where much of the work went in the years after the move — which is the difference between assembling a catalogue and controlling how a manikin is actually made.

Three management systems, not one

Most manufacturers can show a quality certificate. This factory runs three management systems, and each answers a different buyer question:

• ISO 9001 — quality management. The process, documentation and traceability behind an order: how a specification becomes a repeatable product.
• ISO 14001 — environmental management. How the plant manages its environmental impact — increasingly a screening question in public tenders.
• ISO 45001 — occupational health & safety management. How the workforce that makes the product is protected.

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 were obtained in 2008; the factory’s articles elsewhere state the full set as ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001.

What the factory builds

Eight teaching-model families come off the same production base:

Breadth is why the word manufacturer is the operative one. A school, hospital education centre or distributor equips an entire simulation lab from one certified source, with the same materials, colours and documentation from station to station.

Why the factory matters more than the sale

Manufacturing sits with Shanghai Chinon Medical Model & Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; export sales run through Ada Med Supply Limited and LUOYANG BOMN SUPPLY CHAIN CO., Ltd. — all inside one group, and all on the billboard. For a buyer, that is the point: the specification you write and the workshop that executes it belong to the same organisation. OEM/ODM here means a production instruction, not a shopping request.

FAQ

Q1. Who is Shanghai Chinon Medical Model & Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd.?
The manufacturing company behind the Chinon Medical teaching-model range, producing medical teaching models since 1998 from a purpose-built base in Shanghai’s Songjiang Industrial Zone.

Q2. How long has the factory been operating?
Since 1998 — more than two decades of medical teaching model manufacturing.

Q3. Which management systems is the factory certified to?
ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 14001 (environmental management) and ISO 45001 (occupational health & safety management); ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 were obtained in 2008.

Q4. What product families does the factory produce?
Eight: emergency/first aid, nursing skill, diagnosis, clinical medicine, pediatrics & OB/GYN, oral, skeleton & anatomical, and TCM/acupuncture.

Q5. Does the factory accept OEM/ODM orders?
Yes — OEM/ODM manufacturing is stated on the company’s own campaign material: branding, packaging, configuration and documentation can be produced to a buyer’s specification.

Q6. How do I request a quotation?
Email the model numbers, quantity and destination port to the export team.

Request a catalogue or a quotation

Send your product list, target quantity and destination port to chinonmed@adaanatomy.com, or browse the full range at www.chinonmed.com. Our export team will reply with pricing, packing details and, on request, product demonstration videos.