Our Needles
Energy Flo · Peace · SMC
We don’t just sell needles.We build them.
Three brands. Twenty-five years of working directly with the factories. The needles practitioners deserved didn’t exist yet, so we went to the factory floor and made them.
From the factory floor
How a needle importer changed how needles are made
01
Made by hand, burrs and all
In the early 2000s, Gary became the exclusive U.S. importer of Peace acupuncture needles. At the time, most acupuncture needles were still made largely by hand. Burrs on needle tips were common. Consistency from box to box was something the industry had learned to live with.
Gary didn’t accept it.
02
Pushing for precision
He worked directly with the manufacturer to automate acupuncture needle production, pushing for precision machinery that eliminated burrs and delivered the same quality in every needle, every time. He didn’t just import needles. He helped redesign how they were made.
03
No middlemen
That relationship with the factory floor is what makes Acu-Market®’s needle brands different. Every needle that ships under the Energy Flo, Peace or SMC name comes from manufacturers we’ve worked with for years, in facilities we’ve walked through ourselves.
04
We go there
We fly there. We walk the production lines. We sit across the table from the people who build what we sell. That’s not a marketing story. It’s how we’ve done business for twenty-five years.
Three brands, one standard
Find your needle
Energy Flo · since 2008
Energy Flo launched in 2008 to solve a specific problem: practitioners wanted a premium plastic handle needle at a price that made sense for every treatment. Energy Flo delivered a silicone-coated stainless steel shaft and a color-coded plastic handle, with smooth, consistent insertion.
It didn’t cut corners to hit that number. It raised the bar for what a value-priced needle could be. Thousands of practitioners switched and never looked back.
- Shaft Silicone-coated stainless steel
- Handle Color-coded plastic by gauge
- Range Full range of gauges and lengths
- Tubes Individual guide tubes
Peace · the original
Peace was Gary’s first exclusive import, and the brand that started our direct relationship with needle manufacturing. What began as a hand-assembled needle with inconsistent quality became, through Gary’s push for automated production, a needle practitioners rely on box after box.
Peace is the foundation everything else was built on: the needle that proved consistent quality and fair pricing could go together.
- Shaft Stainless steel
- Handle Plastic
- Range Full range of gauges and lengths
- Packs Classic, Golden-Glyder 24K, Value-Pak and Jumbo-Pak
SMC · made in Korea · since 2016
SMC arrived from Korea in 2016 to answer a different need: high-volume practitioners who go through needles fast and want a premium spring handle needle that doesn’t break the budget. The bulk 10-pack is the point: ten needles per blister, same quality, much less per needle.
For acupuncturists treating 20–30 patients a day, SMC changed the math.
- Made in Korea
- Handle Spring (coiled wire grip)
- Shaft Stainless steel
- Packs 10 needles per blister, bulk boxes, standard gauges and lengths
Same warehouse. Same family. Same standards.
Every needle we sell, we stand behind, because we helped build it.
Family-owned, practitioner-first, since 2001.
Questions about a gauge or length? Call 1.866.440.7703