Company History

Blue Bell was founded in 1982 by Lei Barry. Through research and her own experience, Lei saw a need for a medical workstation designed to meet the needs of the various hospital departments. From this viewpoint, she developed the first true workstation to fit the requirements of anesthesia providers.

Originally located in and named after Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Blue Bell steadily grew to include carts for other specialty applications and was the first to introduce an emergency cart for malignant hyperthermia. In 1998, Blue Bell was acquired by Kennedy Manufacturing and operations were moved to the Kennedy facility in Van Wert, Ohio. With ownership by Kennedy, Blue Bell could continue to provide the steady demand for engineering, development, and dedication to quality.

Today, Blue Bell products are still manufactured in the Kennedy facility in Van Wert, OH. Kennedy, the oldest and best recognized name in industrial storage solutions, uses its nearly 100 years of engineering and manufacturing experience in building high quality products to continually improve and enhance the Blue Bell line of products. Kennedy and Blue Bell are both owned by KMC Holdings LLC.