Horiba Medical
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| HORIBA Medical | |
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Formerly called
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HORIBA ABX SAS |
| Fate | Acquired by Horiba Group (in 1996) |
| Founded | France (1983) |
| Products | In vitro diagnostic instruments |
| Parent | Horiba |
HORIBA Medical, Segment of the HORIBA Group, is a designer and manufacturer of medical instruments and reagents for in vitro diagnostics industry. The Segment, headquartered in Montpellier (France) is presents on Hematology market in over 110 countries . The 1,080 employees produce 7,500 instruments and 10,000 tons of reagents annually for public and private sectors. Acquired in 1996 by HORIBA Group ,the subsidiary was originally named ABX Company, founded in 1983. ABX Company was known for the launch of the smallest hematology analyzer of the world at this time, the Minos. Since joining the Japanese Group HORIBA, segment sales have continued to grow exponentially to reach 210 million of dollars (December 2014).
The HORIBA Medical Segment manages the entire lifecycle of in vitro diagnostic systems worldwide that are mainly destined for biological analysis in a medical laboratory. These automated analyzers are designed for various users including patients, doctors, private laboratories, clinics and university hospitals.
Nowadays, the company has widened its range via two new sectors: clinical chemistry and point-of-care testing.
HORIBA Ldt. is a group involved in measurement technology for more than 50 years now. The HORIBA Group is diversified in 5 different sectors: automotive tests systems (36% activity), environmental (11%), medical (17%), semiconductor (19%) and scientific fields (17%). Horiba was founded in 1945 by Masao Horiba, who graduated in nuclear physics from Kyoto University and in the early 1950s started mass-production of pH meters. Today, the group, chaired by Atsushi Horiba, gathers 5,965 employees worldwide and generated 1 294 million of dollars in 2014. The moto of HORIBA Ldt. is "Joy and Fun".
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