Urmas Riig, who passed away in 2014, founded the company in 1978. Urmas had a long career with V.Mueller and was one the first Medical device distributors in the country. In many ways he and others are the fathers of medical device distribution through independent sales channels. The Armamentarium was a founding distributor for many great products like Zeiss, Radionics, Mayfield, BrainLab, Dutch Ophthalmics, and BFW.