What Alfasafe does

Alfasafe is a private for-profit company whose stated business is importing, storing, conditioning, and distributing medical devices, hygiene products, and in vitro diagnostic reagents. It therefore participates in medical-product supply and distribution, although the available data does not identify specific customer groups, suppliers, brands, or markets served.

No information is available on its product portfolio, proprietary technology, logistics infrastructure, certifications, distribution partners, pricing, or revenue model. Its website is https://alfatrading.com.co, but the captured page contains only a verification/loading screen; no app, artificial intelligence capability, funding, ownership, headcount, operating geography, partnership, or expansion evidence is disclosed.

Name

Alfasafe

Website

https://alfatrading.com.co

Company type

Private

Short description

Alfasafe is a private company that imports, stores, conditions, and distributes medical devices, hygiene products, and in vitro diagnostic reagents; the available data does not specify customers, pricing, or markets served.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Device Distribution

NAICS

Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers (4246)

SIC

Wholesale-Medical, Dental & Hospital Equipment & Supplies (5047), Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries (5122)

akta.pro primary industry

Vaccines & Public Health Product Distribution (CRAOAHAI)

Keywords

• Medical device distribution
• In vitro diagnostics supply
• Hygiene product distribution
• Medical product importation
• Diagnostic reagent distribution

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Alfasafe imports, stores, conditions, and distributes medical devices, hygiene products, and in vitro diagnostic reagents. The company handles the full distribution chain from international importation through storage to regulated distribution, serving healthcare customers that require these specialized medical products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Cardinal Health: One of the world's largest medical product distributors, with broad medical, surgical, and laboratory supply portfolios plus its own medical solutions businesses. Alfasafe competes in the same import/distribution layer for medical devices and IVD reagents but at vastly smaller scale and within Colombia rather than globally.
• McKesson: Global pharmaceutical and medical-surgical distributor with strong North American franchises but growing international presence. Directly comparable to Alfasafe as a multi-category healthcare wholesaler distributing devices, pharmacy-adjacent products, and diagnostics-related supplies to providers.
• Becton Dickinson (BD): Global medical-technology manufacturer with strong franchises in medical devices, laboratory supplies, and specimen collection — many of which are imported into Latin America via local distributors such as Alfasafe. Comparable as a producer-principal whose portfolio Alfasafe-like distributors depend on.
• Siemens Healthineers: Global medical-device and IVD manufacturer with its own distribution and reagent-supply networks in Latin America. Directly comparable to Alfasafe's IVD reagent distribution activity, though at much larger scale and primarily as a principal brand rather than third-party importer.
• Roche Diagnostics: Major IVD and diagnostic-imaging manufacturer with established Colombia and Andean operations. Alfasafe's IVD reagent distribution overlaps directly with Roche's product set, placing the two on opposite sides of the same distribution relationship.

Direct peers

• Henry Schein: Large distributor of medical, dental, and animal health products serving office-based practitioners, clinics, and labs. Highly comparable to Alfasafe's medical-device and hygiene distribution role, and has been expanding its Latin American footprint through dedicated country teams.
• Owens & Minor: Pure-play medical product distribution and supply-chain services company focused on hospital and acute-care customers. Directly comparable to Alfasafe's medical-device and hospital-supply distribution model, though operating at much larger scale across multiple countries.
• Medline Industries: Private manufacturer and distributor of medical and surgical supplies with broad product breadth. Comparable to Alfasafe as a medical-products distributor; in some categories it is also a principal supplier whose products might flow through specialty distributors such as Alfasafe.
• Patterson Companies: Distributor of dental, animal health, and rehab supplies to practitioner offices. Overlaps with Alfasafe in medical-product distribution for clinics and laboratories, particularly in the hygiene and consumables layer.

Regional players

• B. Braun: Medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturer with established Latin American sales and distribution subsidiaries, including in Colombia. Comparable to Alfasafe as a multinational medical-device supplier to Colombian hospitals, with its own local conditioning and distribution capability.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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