Featured Business- DARCO International
DARCO International is a homegrown company located right here in Huntington WV. The company started in 1985 when then founder H. Darrel Darby, DPM, grew frustrated with the quality of post-operative foot ware. Since then the DARCO MedSurg ™ Shoe, which incorporates semi-rigid sole design for greater comfort and faster healing, has become the post-operative shoe of choice for orthopedic surgeons. DARCO boasts a variety of post-operative footcare and wound management products including toe alignment splints, heel wedges and insoles, among many other products and product types.
In Recent years through a merger with German-based company, HG Medical, DARCO has begun to manufacture precision-tooled titanium screws used in orthopedic surgery at its Huntington facility. The process with which these titanium screws are manufactured is complex and requires highly skilled machinists. Company owner Darrel Darby, son of founder H. Darrel Darby, explained in a 2015 Herald Dispatch article that HG Medical’s operations would be within the footprint of its 100,000 SQ FT facility in Huntington and that the lot adjacent to the facility would eventually be used to house a state-of-the-art manufacturing center. DARCO is proving to be one of the bright spots in West Virginia manufacturing and we wish them continued success.
