Sysmex Corporation

Sysmex Corporation
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 6869
Industry Medical equipment and devices
Founded (February 20, 1969 (1969-02-20))
as TOA Medical Electronics
Headquarters 1-5-1,Wakinohama-kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0073, Japan
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Hisashi Ietsugu, (CEO and Chairman)
Products
Revenue

Increase $ 1.79 billion (FY 2013)

(Y 184.53 billion) (FY 2013)

Increase $ 199.74 million (FY 2013)

(Y 20.57 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
 5,401 (as of March 31, 2014)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Sysmex Corporation (シスメックス株式会社 Shisumekkusu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company headquartered in Kobe that is engaged in the health care business. Originally called TOA Medical Electronics (a branch of the TOA Corporation), the Sysmex brand was established in 1978, and were mainly involved with haematology analysers. The company was renamed Sysmex Corporation in 1998 taking advantage of brand recognition of their machines.

About the company

Along with its subsidiaries, Sysmex is involved in the development, manufacture and sale of laboratory testing reagents and laboratory equipment; the development and sale of computer systems for medical institutions, as well as the development and sale of software used for clinical examination information systems.

In addition, through its associated company, Sysmex is also engaged in the sale of extracorporeal diagnostic agents, as well as the import and sale of medical devices. The company distributes its products in the domestic market and to the overseas markets including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, China and Singapore, among others. It has offices and factories throughout Asia, as well as branches in Europe, Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. As of March 31, 2010, Sysmex had 43 subsidiaries and one associated company in total. On April 1, 2011, Katakura Industries Co., Ltd. sold its biological science research department to the company.

Global and regional headquarters

Sysmex analysers

Hematology

XN Series

XT Series

XE Series

XS Series

K-Series

HST & Alpha

Lavender Top Management

Other

Coagulation analysers

Life Science

Urine cell counters

Immunoassay analysers

Software Systems

Health IT Solutions

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Profile". Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Annual Report 2014". Retrieved January 19, 2015.
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