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Thermo Fisher Scientific sells scientific instruments and laboratory equipment, diagnostics consumables, and life science reagents. The firm operates through four segments as of year-end 2024 (revenue figures include some cross-segment revenue): analytical technologies (17% of sales); specialty diagnostic products (11%); life science solutions (23%); and lab products and services, which includes CRO services (the remainder).

In 1984, Danaher's founders transformed a real estate organization into an industrial-focused manufacturing company. Then, through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, Danaher now focuses primarily on manufacturing scientific instruments and consumables in the life sciences and diagnostic industries after the late 2023 divestiture of its environmental and applied solutions group, Veralto.

Becton Dickinson is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical products, such as needles, syringes, and sharps-disposal units. The company also manufactures prefilled devices, diagnostic instruments, and reagents, as well as flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems. On a 2025 sales basis, following the spinoff, BD Medical Essentials represented 34% of revenue, the Interventional segment 28%, Connected Care 25%, and Biopharma 13%. International revenue accounts for 43% of the company's business.

Founded in 1941 in Tokyo as an optical glass production plant, Hoya is one of the largest eyeglass lens manufacturers in the world. Leveraging its technology know-how in glass manufacturing, Hoya entered the mask blanks business in 1974. Now although its life care business accounts for more than 60% of its total revenue, majority of its profit before tax comes from its higher-margin IT business.

Medline Inc is a medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions provider in the USA. The company has two reportable segments, Medline Brand and Supply Chain Solutions, the combination of which addresses critical needs in the market through a comprehensive solution. The product portfolio of the company includes 335,000 med-surg products, including surgical and procedural kits, gloves and protective apparel, urological and incontinence care, wound care, and consumable lab and diagnostics products. The company generates its maximum revenue domestically and serves some of the key USA health systems.

Fresenius SE is a healthcare holding company based in Germany. The company owns a minority stake in dialysis service provider and equipment manufacturer Fresenius Medical Care. The Kabi segment manufactures intravenous drugs, nutrition products, infusion and transfusion therapies, and related pumps. The Helios segment operates private hospitals primarily in Germany and Spain.

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co Ltd is a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of medical devices. The company is focused on the medical industry in the fields of Patient Monitoring & Life Support, InVitro Diagnostics, and Medical Imaging.

West Pharmaceutical Services is based in Pennsylvania and is a key supplier to firms in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and generic drug industries. West sells elastomer-based packaging components (including stoppers, seals, and plungers), nonglass containment solutions, and auto-injectors for injectable drugs, which include large-molecule biologics, peptides such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, and small-molecule drugs. The company reports in two segments: proprietary products (about 80% of total revenue) and contract-manufactured products (about 20% of total revenue). It generates approximately 55% of its revenue from international markets and 45% from the United States.

Started as a clinical thermometer producer in Japan in 1921, Terumo is a comprehensive medical device player with a diversified global revenue. Its product portfolio includes prefilled syringes, insulin patch pumps, neurovascular or cardiac vascular interventional devices, and blood processing systems. As of 2025, the cardiac and vascular business is the largest segment, contributing over 60% of its total revenue. Geographically, North America is the largest region, with 38% of Terumo’s revenue.

Steris is an Ireland-domiciled medical technology company focused on sterilization services and infection prevention. The company is the global leader in contract sterilization services, ensuring the safe delivery of single-use and implantable medical equipment to hospitals around the world. Steris also sells sterilizers, washer-disinfectors, and other decontamination equipment and supplies for use by care provider facilities and in biopharma manufacturing sites. Domiciled in the United States before its inversion to Ireland, the firm derives approximately 70% of its revenue from Healthcare Services, 19% from Applied Sterilization Technologies, or AST, and 11% from life sciences services after the divestment of its dental products business.

Straumann is a global leader in dental implants and orthodontics solutions. Its portolio includes abutments, clear aligners, biomaterials, and computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing equipment. The firm's core products are dental implants, and it controls over one-third of the CHF 6 billion global market. Originally a pure premium implant player, Straumann entered the value market in 2012 with its acquisition of Neodent. Straumann now accounts for almost half of the global premium market and around 15% of the value market. While its premium product catalog is marketed under Straumann, its value brands include Neodent, Anthogyr, and Medentika as well as other local and regional brands.

Baxter offers a variety of medical supplies and equipment to providers. From its legacy operations, Baxter sells injectable therapies for use in care settings, including IV pumps, administrative sets, and solutions; nutritional products; and surgical sealants and hemostatic agents. Baxter expanded its portfolio of hospital-focused offerings by acquiring Hillrom in late 2021, which added basic equipment like hospital beds, operating room equipment, and patient monitoring tools to the portfolio. Baxter also sold its kidney care tools in early 2025.

Fresenius Medical Care is the largest dialysis company in the world, treating about 300,000 patients from nearly 3,700 clinics worldwide as of December 2024. In addition to providing dialysis services, the firm is a leading supplier of dialysis products, including machines, dialyzers, and concentrates. Fresenius accounts for about 35% of the global dialysis products market, creating the world's only fully integrated dialysis business. Services account for about three-fourths of sales, while the balance is generated from medical technology products that enable dialysis treatments.

Smith & Nephew designs, manufactures, and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and arthroscopic technologies, and wound care solutions. Roughly 41% of the UK-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 29% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Over half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.

Avantor Inc provides products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. The company operates through two segments: Laboratory Solutions and Bioscience Production. It offers materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation, and services & specialty procurement. Product groups include Equipment & Instrumentation, Services & Specialty Procurement, Proprietary Materials & Consumables, and Third-Party Materials & Consumables. Materials & consumables include high-purity chemicals and reagents, lab supplies, customized excipients, single-use assemblies, chromatography products, sample preparation kits, and fluid handling solutions. It operates in the Americas, Europe, and AMEA.

Headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois, AptarGroup is a leading global supplier of dispensing systems such as aerosol valves, pumps, closures, and elastomer packaging components to the consumer goods and pharmaceutical markets. Its sales are primarily from Europe (49% of sales) and the United States (28%), with China contributing 5% and other countries contributing 17%. It operates three business segments, Pharma, Beauty, and Closures. Pharma generates over two thirds of group profits.

Stevanato Group SpA is a provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries. It delivers an integrated, end-to-end portfolio of products, processes, and services that address customer needs across the entire drug life cycle including development, clinical, and commercial stages. It has two segments; Biopharmaceutical and Diagnostic Solutions which generates key revenue, includes all the products, processes and services developed and provided for the containment and delivery of pharmaceutical and biotechnology drugs and reagents, as well as the production of diagnostic consumables and its other segment is Engineering. Geographically, the company derives majority revenue from Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Sotera Health Co provides sterilization, analytical lab testing, and advisory services to help ensure that medical, pharmaceutical, and food products are safe for healthcare practitioners, patients, and consumers. The company operates in three reportable segments: Sterigenics, Nordion, and Nelson Labs. The Sterigenics segment, which generates maximum revenue, provides outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and other application markets using three core technologies: gamma irradiation, EO processing, and E-beam irradiation. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Europe, and other regions.

Haemonetics Corp aims to improve patient care and reduce the cost of healthcare by providing medical products and solutions in the blood and plasma component collection, surgical suite, and hospital transfusion service spaces. As such, the company operates under three segments: plasma, blood center, and hospital. The company primarily emphasizes its plasma and hospital segments due to their robust growth potential, whereas the blood center segment tends to be constrained by higher competition. Product revenue is driven by demand for disposable blood component collection and processing sets and the related equipment needed for proper functionality.

Ansell is a leading supplier of protective gloves for use in healthcare and industrial settings, earning approximately 55% of revenue and 50% of operating profit from the healthcare segment and the remainder from the industrial segment. The company holds a large number of patents, and the majority of sales come from its key branded product ranges. Ansell has a global manufacturing and distribution footprint and distributes via key partners as well as directly across more than 100 countries. In fiscal 2025, Ansell earned 46% of revenue in North America, 31% from Europe, Middle East, and Africa, 14% across Asia-Pacific, and the remaining 10% in Latin America.

Schott Pharma AG & CO KGaA is an international provider of drug containment solutions and delivery systems for injectable drugs for pharma, biotech and life-sciences. Its business operates in two segments: Drug Containment Solutions (DCS) and Drug Delivery Systems (DDS). The majority of revenue is being generated from the DCS segment, which includes products like vials, cartridges, and ampoules, and provides customers with sterile and non-sterile options in standard and high-end formats for drug storage. Geographically, the company generates revenue from Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Asia and the South Pacific, North America, and South America.

Shandong Weigao Blood Purification Products Co Ltd engaged in research and development, production and sales of blood purification medical products.

Dentsply Sirona is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of dental equipment and supplies. It is a result of a merger of equals in 2016 between Dentsply International (dental consumables and lab products) and Sirona Dental Systems (technologically advanced dental equipment). The firm’s wide portfolio consists of dental consumables, lab products, CAD/CAM and imaging technology, medical devices, and specialty products in orthodontics, endodontics, and implantation. It distributes two-thirds of its dental consumables, technology, and equipment through third-party distributors. The remaining portfolio is sold to labs and offices through the firm’s salesforce or directly to consumers (such as the Byte clear aligner).

BioLife Solutions Inc is a life sciences company that develops, manufactures, and markets bioproduction products and services that are designed to improve quality and de-risk biologic manufacturing, distribution, and transportation in the cell and gene therapy ("CGT") industry. The company provides solutions such as Cell Processing, Cold Chain, and Thawing. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Cell Processing through the biopreservation product "CryoStor". Geographically the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Inner Mongolia Furui Medical Science Co Ltd is a China based medical service platform company. It provides disease diagnosis, drug treatment and chronic disease management centered on the liver disease field. The product portfolio of the company includes tablets, capsules, and plaster. In addition, the company is also engaged in providing health-care services.

Chengzhi Co Ltd, formerly Chengzhi Shareholding Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the businesses of clean energy, functional materials and medical care and health.

Sopharma AD-Sofia is a company engaged in the production of pharmaceutical products. Its principal activities include the production and trade of medicinal substances and finished drug forms; and research and development as well as engineering and implementation activities in the field of medicinal products. It is also focused on the distribution of pharmaceuticals like medical supplies, sanitary materials, vitamins, food supplements, and cosmetics. The company's segments are the Production of pharmaceutical products; Distribution of pharmaceutical products. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Distribution of pharmaceutical products.

Kestra Medical Technologies Ltd is a commercial-stage, wearable medical device and digital healthcare company focused on transforming patient outcomes in cardiovascular disease using monitoring and therapeutic intervention technologies that are intuitive, intelligent, and connected. It has developed and is commercializing its Cardiac Recovery System platform, a comprehensive and developed system that integrates monitoring, therapeutic treatment, digital health, and patient support services into a single, unified solution. The cornerstone of its Cardiac Recovery System platform is the ASSURE WCD, a next-generation wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) used to protect patients at an elevated risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), a prominent public health problem.

Shinva Medical Instrument Co Ltd manufactures medical instruments in China. Its main products include sterilizers and testing products, radiotherapy and digital diagnosis equipment, surgical instruments and pharmaceutical machinery.

Gerresheimer AG provides medicine packaging, drug delivery devices, and solutions with a product range for pharma, health, well-being, and biotech. The firm operates in three segments: The plastics and devices segment consists of products for simple and safe drug delivery along with packaging for liquid and solid medicines, The primary packaging glass segment produces glass packaging products for the pharma and cosmetics industries also for food and beverage industry and The advanced technologies segment works on technical and digital solutions to improve the therapy outcome for patients. The company generates the majority of its revenue in Europe, with sales in Germany contributing the major proportion of any country.

Standard Glass Lining Technology Ltd is a specialized engineering equipment manufacturer for the pharmaceutical and chemical sectors in India. It portfolio comprises core equipment used in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical and chemical products, which can be categorized into: Reaction Systems; Storage, Separation and Drying Systems; and Plant, Engineering and Services (including other ancillary parts). The Group is engaged in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical glass-lined equipment, metal equipment & pumps, as well as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) line equipment. Key revenue is generated from metal equipment & pumps.

Menicon Co Ltd is a contact lens manufacturing company. It is involved in manufacturing, sales, export, and import of contact lenses and other medical goods, manufacturing and sales of medical instruments, sales of medical supplies and research and development of intraocular lenses. The firm's products include soft lenses, gas permeable lenses and lens care products.

Paul Hartmann AG engages in the production of medical and hygiene products. It operates through Wound Management, Incontinence Management and Infection Management and other segments. The Wound segment comprises wound dressing and treatment, compression therapy, first aid, immobilization, and diagnostics. The Incontinence segment provides incontinence hygiene, patient care, and medical skin care. The Infection segment consists of custom procedure trays, surgical draping systems, disposable surgical instruments, and disinfectants. The Other activities include activities in cotton-wool products, medical consumer goods and pharmaceutical products and others. All the activities are functioned through the region of US and derive revenue through the sale of medical and hygiene products.

Arjo AB is a supplier of medical devices, services, and solutions in Sweden. It serves its services to private and public institutions with acute care and long-term care. The company's offering includes products and solutions for patient handling, hygiene, disinfection, medical beds, therapeutic surfaces, venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention and diagnostics. It also offers services such as training in connection with product sales. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from Western Europe and also has a presence in North America; and the Rest of the World.

Salus is a Slovenia-based company engaged in the wholesale and distribution of medical products. It offers medicines, medical devices, medical supplies, dietary supplements, cosmetics to hospitals, pharmacies, and other customers.

Cerus Corp is a biomedical products company focused on the field of blood transfusion safety. The INTERCEPT Blood System is designed to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections by inactivating a broad range of pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites. The company sells its INTERCEPT platelet and plasma systems in the United States of America, Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States countries, the Middle East, and selected countries in other regions around the world. The firm continues to operate in only one segment: Blood safety and generates revenue from the same.

T2S Group Holding is providing high-tech solutions in the medical sector. The group's specialties are Radiology, Oncology, Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Cardiology, Gynecology, Surgery, and Others. It offers solutions of Equipment / Accessories, Medical devices, Pharmaceutical products, IT solutions, and in vitro diagnostics.

Universal Vision Biotechnology Co Ltd is mainly engaged in operating the business of sales of optical devices, glasses, lenses, and other vision aid products; optometric services; sales and leasing of medical devices; and providing hospital management and technical consultancy services. The company's reportable segments include its Ophthalmology Business segment and the Optometry Business segment. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Ophthalmology Business segment, which is responsible for providing ophthalmic clinics and hospital technical services and consultancy services, and leasing services. The Optometry Business segment is responsible for the sales of glasses and peripheral equipment. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Taiwan and the rest from China.

Embecta Corp is a medical device company focused on providing solutions to improve the health and well-being of people living with diabetes. It has a broad portfolio of marketed products, including various pen needles, syringes, and safety devices, which are complemented by a proprietary digital application designed to assist people with managing their diabetes. The company predominantly sells products to wholesalers and distributors that sell to retail and institutional channels who in turn sell to patients or use the products to deliver insulin injections to patients. It also provides contract manufacturing services. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.

Tristel PLC’s business is the sale to hospitals of its proprietary chlorine dioxide chemistry used for the decontamination of medical devices under the Tristel brand and for the sporicidal disinfection of environmental surfaces under the Cache brand. Its operating segments include hospital medical device decontamination products used predominantly for infection control in hospitals; the manufacture and sale of hospital environmental surface disinfection products; and pharmaceutical and personal care product manufacturing industries, veterinary and animal welfare. The company generates the majority of its revenue from hospital medical device decontamination and operates geographically in the UK and overseas markets.

Prim SA is engaged in the provision of hospital supplies. The company is in a hospital and orthopedic supplies and materials for physiotherapy, thalassotherapy, thermal therapy, rehabilitation, geriatrics, as well as daily living aids. Prim work across a division of healthcare units such as Operating Theatres; Pain Management Centres; Plastic Surgery; Endosurgery and Cardiovascular.

Stille AB manufactures and distributes medical devices. Its products include surgical equipment such as Surgical Scissors, Forceps, Curettes, Raspatories, Elevators, c-arm tables and instrument care education, among others.

Oriola Corp is a health and wellbeing company operating in Nordic countries. It offers services such as the distribution of pharmaceuticals and other health and well-being products, services, and dose dispensing. Oriola's operations are divided into two segments which include distribution and wholesale. Geographically, the company operates in Sweden, Finland and other countries generating majority revenue from the region of Sweden.

Bastide Le Confort Medical SA is a France-based company that is engaged in the sale and rental of medical supplies and equipment for the home care of the elderly, sick and disabled. The company provides care equipment, such as hospital beds, personal assistance products, nutrition, insulin pumps, and syringe-drivers.

Paragon Care Ltd is a medical device company. The company provides medical equipment, devices, and consumables medical products to the healthcare market. The company provides solutions to various healthcare markets, aged care, and veterinary markets. The group is organized into two operating segments: ParagonCare and CH2 Holdings and the majority of its revenues are generated from the CH2 Holdings segment engaged in the distribution of pharmaceuticals, medical consumables, nutritional, and over-the-counter products to the healthcare market.

KORU Medical Systems Inc is a developer and manufacturer of medical devices and supplies. It focuses on mechanical infusion products, the FREEDOM Infusion Systems. Its primary products include the Freedom Integrated Infusion System: the FREEDOM60 and FreedomEdge Syringe Drivers, Precision Flow Rate Tubing, HIgH-Flo Subcutaneous Safety Needle Sets and Precision Flow Rate Tubing. It is a manufacturer of subcutaneous infusion devices that deliver life-saving immunoglobulin therapies to patients with chronic illnesses such as Primary Immunodeficiencies (PIDD) and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP).

Jin Medical International Ltd, along with its subsidiaries, mainly offers rehabilitation equipment. It is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and sales of wheelchairs and other assistive living aid products for use by people with disabilities or impaired mobility. The group's product offering includes wheelchairs and wheelchair components, oxygen concentrators, bathing machines, respiratory and walking aids, oxygen chambers, beauty instruments, and nano products, among others. Wheelchairs are currently its key revenue-generating product. The products are sold to dealers in Japan and China, and to some extent to dealers located in the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, Israel, Singapore, and other regions. Geographically, the group generates maximum revenue from Japan.

Sopharma Trading AD is a Bulgaria based company operating in the pharmaceutical sector. The company is engaged in the distribution of pharmaceutical items, including a portfolio of international brands, medicinal products, medical supplies, sanitary and hygienic materials, vitamins, nutritional supplements, cosmetics, medical equipment, and equipment. It also provides turnkey solutions for the construction of medical and hospital establishments. In addition, the group also caters logistics solutions for import, storage, and distribution of goods to end customers.