Maspeth diabetes equipment supplier to move to Long Island after $7 million industrial site purchase

Simple Diagnostics, a Queens-based supplier of glucose and blood-pressure monitors, insulin needles and other diabetes-related products, is relocating to Long Island, according to company officials.

Last month, Simple Diagnostics completed the $7 million all-cash purchase of a nearly 36,000-square-foot building at 40 Ranick Rd. in Hauppauge, said Ralph Perna, the associate real estate broker with Melville-based Schacker Realty who represented the company in its purchase. The company plans to relocate its city operations to Long Island, officials with Simple Diagnostics said. 

Muhammad Arif, the company's CEO, credited the need to find a new location for his business, which has operated in New York City for around 15 years, to business growth. The firm sells its products to retail pharmacies and e-commerce businesses in 72 countries, according to its website. 

"It made financial sense to move to Suffolk County instead of Nassau," said Arif, whose company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida. "There’s a lot more [properties] available in Suffolk than Nassau."

Arif said the company, which is in the process of renovating the interior of the Hauppauge site, plans in the "very near future" to "move everything on Long Island," where it expects to have around 20 employees.

Arif said the company plans eventually to seek industrial development agency aid to assist in the relocation effort, which will likely involve operating out of both locations for a time.

"We will have to do it in phases because we don’t want to disrupt the business," he said.

Perna said Simple Diagnostics, which sells medical devices through its own Clever Choice and Pharmacist Choice brands, acquired the property after its previous owners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2025.

Simple Diagnostics had been looking for an industrial site to purchase for the last four years, Perna said, adding that the market has been particularly competitive for industrial properties since the pandemic.

"We’ve been looking at several buildings, a couple of which we got outbid on," said Perna, who has been working in industrial real estate for 51 years.

The property, which has two loading docks and sits on 2 acres near a Long Island Expressway service road, was previously owned by Giapreet LLC, a real estate investment firm in Woodbury, according to CoStar Group, a commercial real estate data provider.

Giapreet purchased the property in 2022 for $8.4 million, according to CoStar and Suffolk County deed records.

In December 2025, Giapreet filed for bankruptcy protection, saying in documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York that it had between $10 million and $50 million in both assets and liabilities.

Officials with Giapreet declined to comment. 

Before Giapreet's and then Simple’s purchases, the site had been home to Poly Craft Industries, a manufacturer of flexible plastic and laminated packaging. In 2025, the company filed notice with the state that it would be relocating its business to Middletown, New York, impacting 65 of its 90 workers.

In May, Empire State Development announced that the company had completed the relocation of its business to a newly built, 72,000-square-foot, $27 million manufacturing facility in Middletown.