Milestones

PDC Co-founder Dr. W. Mosher was 22-years-old and focused on his engineering studies at UCLA when he started PDC with three investors in 1956.
The company developed what was then a revolutionary innovation: a single-piece wristband, no parts, no tools necessary. It sold immediately and became the system of choice for hospitals worldwide With steady growth, PDC blazed new trails and set new standards, developing identification solutions for multiple markets, including healthcare, entertainment/recreation, law enforcement, and more. Today, PDC provides more wristbands to the healthcare market than all competitors combined.

PDC becomes the first company to provide Inmate ID Solutions for law enforcement and correctional facilities in 1976. Today, Clincher^® covers virtually the entire inmate ID market, helping facilities identify and track inmate population.

In 1995, PDC becomes the first wristband identification company to earn the coveted ISO-9001 (International Standards Organization)certification at our main facility in San Fernando, CA.

As the next step in wristband identification after bar coding, PDC develops the revolutionary Smart Band^® RFID System. The system contains a microchip and antenna, which allows information to be written and retrieved by RFID scanners. Representing the new wave of the future in positive identification, Smart Band^® provides maximum accuracy, security, and streamlined operations.

PDC establishes its first European Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium with the acquisition of its long-time distributor MFR Europe, now PDC Europe.

Hollister Ident-A-Band^® hospital wristband and WrisTicket^® entertainment wristband product lines purchased by PDC.

Precision Dynamics Corporation merges with The St. John Companies Inc. to create the world’s leading provider of patient safety identification and healthcare labeling solutions. St. John’s manufacturing facility in Tijuana is added to the company’s world-class manufacturing operations.

Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC) (“Brady”), a world leader in identification solutions, announced today that it has acquired Precision Dynamics Corporation (“PDC”) from Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, in a cash transaction for $300 million, subject to customary working capital and post-close adjustments. PDC, with annual sales of approximately $173 million, is a leader in identification products primarily for the healthcare market, specializing in patient wristbands, specialty labels and identification systems used in hospitals to reduce medical errors and integrate and share patient data.

State-of-the-art manufacturing facility with 1M square feet of floor space to house the company’s expanding manufacturing capabilities.

To support faster production and distribution in South America, PDC expanded their manufacturing footprint by adding a new site in Brazil.

PDC now offers several new thermal printers to meet all of your patient identification needs with a single solution from the company that 90% of US hospitals choose. PDC Patient ID Solutions allow providers to accurately match each patient to the correct medical record, medications, specimens, and procedures at every stage of care with a single solution that includes wristbands, labels—and now—printers.