Darrel Kile, equipment manager, Classic Diagnostic Imaging, reports the company has completed its new refurbishing center in Macedonia, Ohio.

"We've now got 17,000 square feet, new paint booths and new test bays," Kile says. "It's really given us a whole lot more room to work."


Classic Diagnostic Imaging is a three-year-old company focusing on the imaging parts equipment market, doing deinstallations of rooms and equipment. Their new facility completes their move into refurbishing equipment for new owners.

"Although the company is three years old, our management as been in the business for 20 years," Kile adds.

Kile notes that Classic Diagnostic Imaging does the tech support, it doesn't do tech service. "We don't send anyone out in the field to wrench on anything," he noted. "If (someone) has a problem, they can call us and we'll talk them through, find what's causing it and tell them how to fix it. That's what separates us from other parts companies."

Clients are mostly hospital end-users and service companies looking for parts. Classic Diagnostic Imaging sells all across the U.S., but also has clients in Chile and Mexico with mammography equipment as its largest sellers. CTs and MRI systems also are part of their inventory.

"We are a small company, with 12 employees," Kile says. "We're privately owned and work with equipment that can range in price from $1,000 to $10,000 or more. Where DOTmed [Certification] is helpful to us is our clients can avoid fly-by-night parts companies that take their money and disappear."

One example troubling the parts market right now, according to Kile, is a C-Arm mobile X-ray unit currently under Federal scrutiny.

"Right now, those making the unit have been shut down, so the cost of finding parts for this have now doubled," Kile explains. "It becomes very valuable to us to find [equipment] available for re-furbishing."

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