BFW Inc.
BFW Surgical Headlights and Video Camera Systems Address Real Problems in Your Practice. BFW surgical headlights have consistent illumination and brightness across the entire field of view. Reducing or eliminating eye strain during long procedures. The BFW product line is built with easy to clean materials, and most parts can be repaired in-house. This reduces maintenance issues for nurses and biomed engineers, and cuts downtime for headlights in repair. Interchangeable color coded headbands help keep your departments organized. The convenient Sol Wall system stores, protects and charges your portable BFW headlamps (coming soon). BFW offers the industry’s first true coaxial HD 1080p/60 FPS headlight/video camera system.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
- Year Founded:
- 1971
About Us
There is good reason so many “Top-Ranked” hospitals use or are switching to BFW™ – We are the technological leader in medical and surgical headlight illumination and headlight video imaging equipment backed by customer service that is second-to-none.
With our innovative all LED product line up – from robustly built and very bright portables, to our high-intensity Hatteras™ fiber-optic LED system that is tested and approved for headlights and scopes – BFW™ products are always well thought out solutions to meet the needs of our customers – from the physicians and surgeons who use them, to nurses who prepare them, to biomedical engineers who maintain them.
In collaboration with the Long Island Technology Group, we design, engineer and assemble our products with a symbiotic vision of continuous innovation to meet the ever-changing requirements of a rapidly evolving and demanding profession.
Our Story
BFW, Inc. was founded by Leon Cooper in 1971 in Lexington Kentucky
Leon’s daughter, Lynn, joins the company in 1990. Her main goal was to learn the business and to increase international distribution. In 1990 BFW had 3 international distributors; this sales arm has now grown to over 20. Through word of mouth and product quality, the market grew globally.
In 2010 BFW introduces the first major change to lamp technology powering the fiber optic light source in over 20 years with the ChromaLUME, utilizing plasma lamp technology. With technology strongly in the xenon-powered light sources, BFW saw the need to increase lamp life without affecting brightness. This was the stepping stone to the introduction to LED technology, which BFW adopted as it retained the intensity, yet lowered the heat output.
2014 BFW partners with supplier Long Island Technology Group to introduce the Lighthouse Series to the market. BFW’s line of portable and tethered headlights and light sources are now solely powered by LED technology. Robust quality and comfort along with clarity of illumination have been achieved with this line. Also introduced is the Pharos HD Coaxial Headlight/Camera System; improving upon past generations of quality headlight/video systems BFW has offered. Pharos provides a surgeon’s-eye view of the procedure; excellent for teaching and an invaluable aid to the OR team.
Coming in 2019 – the Bay Port Storage Solution – an attractive, functional solution to store headlights and charge multiple batteries in configurations to suit most needs.
BFW is dedicated to providing comfort and illumination to the surgeon/physician as well as creating an opportunity to advance teamwork and education by sharing the surgeon’s-eye-view of the procedure.