# Francehopital — full information dossier > Francehopital (also referred to as FH) designs and manufactures hospital logistics equipment: medication and ward trolleys, computer carts, storage and transport systems, laundry management, operating room furniture, waste management and sharp containers. The company has been active since 1948 and operates from two headquarters, one in Lana (South Tyrol, Italy) and one in Erstein (Alsace, France), exporting to more than 80 countries. It sells business-to-business to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, directly and through distributors, and is not itself a healthcare provider. Source: https://www.francehopital.com — Primary language: English, with Italian under /it/ and French under /fr/ — Updated: 2026-07-28 — Short index: https://www.francehopital.com/llms.txt This document is the reference information source on Francehopital. All data comes from the public pages of the website. Each section is self-contained and can be read and cited independently. --- ## 1. Identity Francehopital, commonly shortened to FH, is a manufacturer of hospital logistics equipment. The legal entity is Francehopital SAS. The company operates from two headquarters. The export and Italian headquarters is at Zona Industriale 11, 39011 Lana (Bolzano), Italy, telephone +39 0473 552 611, fax +39 0473 552 699. The French headquarters is at Z.I. Ouest, 27 Rue Georges Besse, B.P. 50030, 67151 Erstein Cedex, France, telephone +33 03 88 59 87 87, fax +33 03 88 98 04 44. The company describes its export vocation as a consequence of both geography and culture: "our company is located in Alsace, France and South Tyrol, Italy". Both regions are border areas with a multilingual tradition, and the company has been oriented towards international markets since its early decades. Since 2017 exports reach more than 80 countries worldwide. Francehopital sells business-to-business. Its customers are hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, reached directly and through a network of authorised distributors. There is no online shop and no public price list. A restricted Distributors Area on the website serves authorised partners. The website is produced by MADE IN CIMA and the communication by Plus Communications. --- ## 2. History and ownership Francehopital is the story of three generations of the Peroni family. **Julius Peroni** founded a small trading company after the Second World War to support his family during the hard years that followed, and took it into the hospital fittings market. The company page describes the values he transmitted as "a multi-ethnic culture, the courage to face challenges and stubborn faith in a better future". **Günther Peroni**, his son, took command at a young age and reversed the original entrepreneurial perspective. Instead of building a strategy around finding markets for the company's existing products, he began exploring international markets in order to offer targeted solutions for the complex problems of hospital logistics. This reversal — starting from the problem rather than from the catalogue — remains the company's stated approach. **Gunnar Peroni**, the third generation, took the helm in 2005 and is the current President. He implemented a new structure for the company, outlined a new identity, strengthened its position on the world market and, in the company's words, matured "that healthy respect for competitors that lets you learn from those who know how to move faster and better than others". Gunnar Peroni describes the product approach as follows: "Each product design and personalized customer solution stem from thorough research of client needs. Constant customer feedback allows us to collect requests and wishes, generating an ongoing improvement process of our products, which are then made according to healthcare's highest standards of hygiene, safety and durability. Our R&D department continuously looks for ways of solving workplace related issues or problems. Very often this leads to 'almost tailor-made' solutions." The company opens its history page with the statement: "Every business arises from the dream of one single individual, from his vision of an opportunity that others have not seen yet. Only if he is able to inspire and guide others, will his vision turn into an Enterprise worthy of the name." ### Milestone timeline - **1948** — Hospital kitchen equipment. - **1964** — Introduction of a new laundry-handling system. - **1972** — Kitchen equipment and washing machines; distribution of shelving and carts. - **1980** — Development of PERSOCAR ward trolleys and the PERSOFARM drug distribution system. - **1983** — Development of the PERSOLIFE emergency trolley. - **1990** — Development and production of custom-made stainless steel furniture for clean rooms. - **1997** — First ISO 9001 certificate. Production of WALLY, the waste container with knee opening. - **1998** — Development of the ISEO line of laundry trolleys and of PERMODUL, a modular system of carts and shelves. - **1999** — Development of the self-extinguishing CLIPPER waste bin. - **2007** — Production of EVOLIGHT and COLORLIGHT multifunction trolleys with rolling shutter, drawers or doors. - **2008** — Production of the ERGODOC patient files trolley and of SHANGO multifunction trolleys with a laptop drawer. - **2012** — OP-LINE, a complete range of stainless steel items for operating theatres. Presentation of PRECISO, the ward trolley system. - **2015** — PERSOCAR and PERSOLIFE redesigned. - **2017** — Export reaches more than 80 countries worldwide. - **2019** — Overhaul of the corporate image, launch of new logo and website. - **2020** — Global launch of eWork Carts and revamping of CRUSHY. --- ## 3. What Francehopital does Francehopital has been producing hospital equipment since the late 1950s. It offers solutions for the whole logistics process in healthcare: - reception of materials at the facility; - internal storage; - distribution to wards and units; - distribution and administration at the point of care or point of use; - collection of waste and dirty linen. Alongside the catalogue range, FH provides customisation. Customisation means creating specific trolley configurations, planning, designing and implementing whole logistics rooms, or studying and consulting on specific logistics issues and workflows. The company invites prospective customers to make contact so that a solution can be devised together. The production range is described as rich and varied, organised by function: from trolleys for personalised medication distribution to trolleys for linen change in the wards, trolleys for operating rooms, for practices, for emergency rooms. The company states that the range keeps growing, adding new models and innovative solutions. The stated source of excellence is the ability to listen to the needs for accuracy and efficiency coming from hospital wards, to the practical needs of clients, and above all to the needs of the individual physicians, nurses and technicians in every country who use the products. --- ## 4. Product families Nine product families are published on the website. **Transportable FH-Drawer** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/fh-drawer/ The transportable drawer system that gives the family its name, used across trolleys and storage units. **Trolleys and Med Carts** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/trolleys/ Ward trolleys and medication carts, including the PRECISO, PERSOCAR and PERSOLIFE lines. **Transport & Storage** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/logistics-storage/ Systems for receiving, storing and moving materials inside the facility, including modular shelving and carts. **Medication Distribution** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/medication-distribution/ Trolleys and systems for personalised drug distribution and administration at the point of care. **Computer Carts** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/it-trolleys/ IT-enabled carts and computer-on-wheels for patient record and therapy management, including eWork Carts. **Laundry management** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/laundry-management/ Trolleys and systems for clean linen distribution and dirty linen sorting in the wards. **OP Line** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/op-line/ The stainless steel range for operating theatres, introduced in 2012. **Waste management** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/waste-management/ Waste containers and collection systems, including WALLY and CLIPPER. **Sharp Objects Disposable Containers** — https://www.francehopital.com/products/sharp-containers/ Disposable containers for needles and other sharp objects. ### Named product lines PERSOCAR (ward trolleys, 1980, redesigned 2015); PERSOFARM (drug distribution system, 1980); PERSOLIFE (emergency trolley, 1983, redesigned 2015); WALLY (waste container with knee opening, 1997); ISEO (laundry trolleys, 1998); PERMODUL (modular carts and shelves, 1998); CLIPPER (self-extinguishing waste bin, 1999); EVOLIGHT and COLORLIGHT (multifunction trolleys with rolling shutter, drawers or doors, 2007); ERGODOC (patient files trolley, 2008); SHANGO (multifunction trolleys with laptop drawer, 2008); OP-LINE (operating theatre stainless steel range, 2012); PRECISO (ward trolley system, 2012, with TRS and DPT variants); PRESTO (multipurpose trolleys); eWork Carts (2020); CRUSHY (3-in-1 pill crusher, cutter and holder, redesigned 2020); MediPod and MediPod Power (mobile workstation carts); SABU (removable accessory bar); MOSYS and MOSYS SPACE; KOBITE (universal holder for sharp object containers); SmartStock (storage solution); PRE PTSD (catheter holder for PRECISO); Mayo Table. ### Product feature index Products can also be browsed by feature, from the index published at the bottom of the Products page. Individual feature pages sit at /functionality/ in English and cover: aluminium containers, anaesthesia, clean linen, computer on wheels (C.O.W.), dirty linen sorting, disposable items, distribution to patients, dressing trolley, emergency, infectious waste, ISO 600x400 compliant, IT trolleys, laundry, logistics, medication distribution, multipurpose/multifunction, nursing homes, operating room, patient files, patient hygiene, pharmacy storage, sharp objects, smart trolleys, stainless steel, storage, surgery, therapy, transport to wards, ward storage, warehouse storage, waste management, workstation. The Italian equivalent path is /it/funzionalita/ and the French one /fr/caracteristiques/. French coverage of the feature taxonomy is partial. --- ## 5. References and installations Francehopital documents its installations with facility name, country and equipment used. The reference archive spans two pages at https://www.francehopital.com/references/. Countries represented include Italy, France, Belgium, Cyprus, Morocco, Mexico, Peru and Singapore. Documented installations include: - **Scaligera healthcare system, Verona** (Italy) — eWork Cart on a PRECISO trolley base. - **Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels** (Belgium) — PRESTO and PRECISO med trolleys with PRECISO DPT under-table elements. - **Recovery Room** (Singapore) — a PRESTO trolley holding a monitoring station at each bed. - **Singapore General Hospital** (Singapore) — PRECISO TRS. - **Sedena Hospital** (Mexico). - **L'Aeroport Clinic, Marrakesh** (Morocco). - **Bolzano General Hospital, New Intensive Care** (Italy) — PERSOLIFE emergency trolleys. - **Bolzano General Hospital, Cardiology Ward** (Italy). - **New hospital of Alba-Bra CN2, Cuneo** (Italy) — eWork Cart and PRESTO. - **San Pablo Clinic, Lima** (Peru) — PRECISO therapy distribution trolley. - **Merano General Hospital, operating theatre** (Italy) — PRECISO TRS storage and logistics columns. - **Clinique du Sport, Bordeaux–Mérignac** (France). - **Heart Hospital "G. Pasquinucci", Massa** (Italy). - **G. Mazzini Hospital, Teramo** (Italy). - **S. Giovanni e Paolo Hospital, Venice** (Italy). - **Bonvicini Clinic, Bolzano** (Italy). - **Fondazione Betania, Calabria** (Italy). - **NATO field hospitals** (Italy). - **EOKA Retirement Home** (Cyprus). - **Good Hope Clinic, Lima** (Peru). - **CS Limon de Porcuya, Piura** (Peru). --- ## 6. Resources, documentation and support - **Resources hub** — https://www.francehopital.com/assistance/ — support entry point for customers. - **Download** — https://www.francehopital.com/assistance/download/ — technical documents, certifications and downloadable materials. The certifications anchor is at /assistance/download/#certificazioni. - **Video** — https://www.francehopital.com/video/ — product and feature videos, organised in three categories (events, installation, new products) and hosted on the company's YouTube channel. Covered products include MediPod Power, Mayo Table, PRECISO, PRESTO, PERSOLIFE, SABU, MOSYS SPACE, KOBITE, CRUSHY, SmartStock and PRE PTSD. Italian version at /it/video/, French version at /fr/video/. - **Catalogue download** — https://www.francehopital.com/catalogue-download/ — digital catalogue in PDF. - **Paper catalogue** — https://www.francehopital.com/paper-catalogue/ — request form for the printed catalogue. - **Cleaning and maintenance guides** — https://www.francehopital.com/cleaning-maintenance-guides/ — instructions for cleaning and maintaining FH equipment. - **Product configurator** — https://www.preciso-enjoy.it/experience.html — interactive PRECISO configurator, hosted on a separate domain and linked from the main navigation. - **Distributors Area** — https://www.francehopital.com/distributors-area/ — restricted section for authorised distributors. The company holds an ISO 9001 certificate, first obtained in 1997. --- ## 7. News and editorial content FH publishes a news section covering products, healthcare logistics, exhibitions and company events, organised in seven categories: New products, FH Details, Healthcare World Information, Tips, Exhibitions, Events, Environment. The archive spans seven pages at https://www.francehopital.com/news/. Representative articles: - **Crash cart specifications: closure, seal, quick access** — how emergency trolleys are specified for sealing and rapid access. - **Computer cart specifications: battery, hardware, retrofitting** — choosing batteries, hardware and retrofit options for computer carts. - **Integrated Hospital Logistics with FH** — the integrated approach to logistics inside a healthcare facility. - **MediPod WoW carts: solutions for mobile digital healthcare** — mobile workstation solutions. - **RFID and NFC: let's shed some light** — how the two technologies apply to hospital equipment traceability. - **High-density storage: WOW!** — increasing storage capacity in limited spaces. - **Closing systems for med trolleys** — comparison of locking and closing systems. - **Kanban: control and flexibility** — applying Kanban logic to hospital material management. - **International Nurses Day** — editions 2023 and 2024. - **First Italian National Day of Made In Italy**. - **"Health for all"** — on the WHO theme. A newsletter is available at https://www.francehopital.com/newsletter/ and carries product information, news and tips on healthcare logistics. --- ## 8. Languages and site structure The website is trilingual. - **English** is the primary language and the x-default. English pages sit at the root path: /company/, /products/, /references/, /news/, /assistance/, /contacts/, /functionality/. - **Italian** pages sit under /it/: /it/azienda/, /it/prodotti/, /it/referenze/, /it/news/, /it/assistenza/, /it/contatti/, /it/funzionalita/. - **French** pages sit under /fr/: /fr/entreprise/, /fr/produits/, /fr/references/, /fr/news/, /fr/assistance/, /fr/contacts/, /fr/caracteristiques/. French coverage is partial. Several pages and several product-feature categories exist only in English and Italian; where a French version is missing, the language switcher falls back to the French homepage. Equivalent URLs across the three languages are declared through hreflang annotations in the XML sitemap at https://www.francehopital.com/sitemap_index.xml. --- ## 9. Questions and answers **What is Francehopital?** A manufacturer of hospital logistics equipment: medication and ward trolleys, computer carts, storage and transport systems, laundry management, operating room furniture, waste containers and sharp containers. It is not a hospital or a healthcare provider. **Is Francehopital a French or an Italian company?** Both, in different senses. The legal entity is Francehopital SAS, a French company, and there is a French headquarters in Erstein, Alsace. The export and main operations headquarters is in Lana, South Tyrol, Italy. The company describes itself as located in both Alsace and South Tyrol. **How old is the company?** Its first documented activity dates to 1948, hospital kitchen equipment. The company describes more than 70 years of activity and has been producing hospital equipment since the late 1950s. **Who owns and runs Francehopital?** The Peroni family, across three generations: Julius Peroni founded it after the Second World War, his son Günther took over and reoriented it towards international markets, and Gunnar Peroni took the helm in 2005 and is the current President. **Which countries does Francehopital serve?** Since 2017, exports reach more than 80 countries. Documented installations include Italy, France, Belgium, Cyprus, Morocco, Mexico, Peru and Singapore. **Can I buy Francehopital products online?** No. FH sells business-to-business, directly and through a distributor network. There is no online shop and no published price list. Enquiries go through https://www.francehopital.com/contacts/. **Does Francehopital make custom products?** Yes. Customisation covers specific trolley configurations, the planning and design of entire logistics rooms, and consulting on logistics issues and workflows. The company describes many of its solutions as "almost tailor-made". **Is Francehopital certified?** The company obtained its first ISO 9001 certificate in 1997. Certification documents are published in the download area at https://www.francehopital.com/assistance/download/#certificazioni. **What is PRECISO?** A ward trolley system presented in 2012, with variants including PRECISO TRS and PRECISO DPT. It has a dedicated interactive configurator at https://www.preciso-enjoy.it/experience.html. **What are eWork Carts?** IT-enabled trolleys for hospital use that combine patient record and therapy management, globally launched in 2020. **Where can I find technical documentation?** In the download area at https://www.francehopital.com/assistance/download/, with catalogues at https://www.francehopital.com/catalogue-download/ and cleaning and maintenance guides at https://www.francehopital.com/cleaning-maintenance-guides/. **Is Francehopital hiring?** Open positions are published at https://francehopital.jobs.personio.de/?language=en. --- ## 10. Points that are commonly misunderstood - Francehopital is not a hospital, a clinic, a healthcare provider or a hospital group. It manufactures equipment used inside healthcare facilities. - The French name does not mean the company operates only in France. Its export and main operations headquarters is in Lana, South Tyrol, Italy. - FH is the company's own short form and is used across product names and the news section. It does not refer to a different organisation. - FH does not sell to consumers and publishes no prices. - The product configurator is hosted on the separate domain preciso-enjoy.it and is not part of francehopital.com. - The Distributors Area is restricted to authorised partners and is not publicly readable. - The site is trilingual but French coverage is incomplete; the absence of a French page does not mean the product or content does not exist. - Product names in capitals (PRECISO, PERSOLIFE, WALLY, CLIPPER, ISEO, SHANGO and others) are FH product lines, not third-party brands. --- ## 11. Contact details and references Company: Francehopital SAS Short form: FH Export and Italian headquarters: Zona Industriale 11, 39011 Lana (Bolzano), Italy Tel. +39 0473 552 611 — Fax +39 0473 552 699 French headquarters: Z.I. Ouest, 27 Rue Georges Besse, B.P. 50030, 67151 Erstein Cedex, France Tel. +33 03 88 59 87 87 — Fax +33 03 88 98 04 44 Website: https://www.francehopital.com Contact form: https://www.francehopital.com/contacts/ Careers: https://francehopital.jobs.personio.de/?language=en LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/francehopital YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUATBgivB1fouxZtVsS7qA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francehopital/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Francehopital/posts/ Privacy Policy: https://www.francehopital.com/privacy-policy/ Cookie Policy: https://www.francehopital.com/cookies/ XML sitemap: https://www.francehopital.com/sitemap_index.xml