About us

LINET spol. s r.o. is a major European manufacturer of hospital and nursing beds. The company´s portfolio includes solutions designed for intensive care, products for regular in-bed treatment and also special beds for old people´s homes and long-term care facilities. The LINET range also includes a wide range of accessories such as antipressure ulcer mattresses, mobile equipment, healthcare furniture, etc.


LINET is maintaining its position out in front of its competitors in hospital bed manufacture. The firm regularly introduces products and services with innovative features and functions that reduce physical demands on staff, enhance the efficacy of care provided and increase patient comfort. LINET works intensively on developing such products in collaboration with healthcare professionals and respected experts in various scientific fields, enabling the firm to keep abreast of new trends in the area of medical care.

Awards

LINET has won a wide range of prestigious industry and business awards. To mention but a few, it is regularly ranked in the top ten of the CZECH TOP 100 poll of most admired firms, at the European Business Awards 2011 it won the Ruban d´Honneur medal, and has won the Award for Design Excellence 4 times over. Company co-owner Zbyněk Frolík was presented with the Business Person of the Year award in 2003, and was decorated by the President of the Czech Republic with a State Honour – the Medal of Merit – in 2011. In 2013 LINET received the Award Family Friendly Company. Since 2014 LINET is a Health Promoting Enterprise the 3rd Grade. 

Members of LINET Group

Social responsibility

As part of its activities, LINET has long been striving for the broadest possible application of the principles of socially responsible business. At the local level, the company focuses primarily on supporting education and employment and on the overall development of the domestic Region of Slaný.

Support for education

LINET cooperates very closely with secondary schools - here, the doors are open to students interested in gaining experience who often begin their main employment here after graduation. As regards its field of focus and its own development centre, LINET is closely interconnected with technical universities, especially with the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the CTU. Here, LINET´s key experts act as mentors, conduct lectures and collaborate on final graduation research papers.

Collaboration with the Barriers account

The LINET Endowment Fund was created in 2012 under the patronage of the Barriers Account. The funds distributed within the LINET Endowment Fund are primarily for families in difficult life situations, and they help people with reduced or completely impaired self-sufficiency who are staying or want to stay in a home environment. The support drawn from this fund is intended for the purchase of rehabilitation and compensatory aids. LINET is also continuously providing material donations in the form of beds, antidecubitus mattresses and other equipment.


Every year, LINET employees participate in another project of the Barriers Account Foundation. In the running charity event Run and Help, they contribute a certain amount for handicapped children or other disadvantaged people for each kilometre run.

Collaboration with Transparency International and the Anti-Corruption Foundation

As an example of a successful yet fair entrepreneurship, LINET financially supports organizations aimed at detecting corruption and dishonest approach in business as well as other spheres of social life. It supports its vision that it is possible to be successful in business without bribery, association with the mafia or unfair practices.