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Formed in 1970, KeyMed has grown from a staff of four to become firmly established as an international leader in the manufacture and supply of specialised medical and industrial equipment.
Today, the KeyMed Group employs approaching 1,000 people at its purpose-built headquarters in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England and subsidiaries in Ireland and Plymouth, Devon. |
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KeyMed House,
Southend-on-Sea,
Essex, UK |
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Since 1986, KeyMed has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, Japan, and as such is an important part of the global Olympus network, with specific responsibility for the development and manufacture of medical equipment and industrial products for distribution world-wide.
Olympus is recognized around the world as a manufacturer of high-quality electro-optical products, such as cameras and microscopes and endoscopic instrumentation, for both medical and industrial applications. For financial, Investor Relations, Company Profile and historical information on the Olympus Corporation please visit the Olympus Global Corporate Information site. KeyMed, as one of the global business centres for Olympus endoscopy products, is the exclusive distributor and service centre for the entire Olympus range of flexible and rigid endoscopes, accessories and ancillary products in Great Britain, with KeyMed Ireland handling sales and service in Ireland. KeyMed’s distributor for Olympus endoscopy products in Northern Ireland is Cardiac Services Ltd. For details of distributors of Olympus and KeyMed medical endoscopy products in the Middle East & Africa, please use the ’Distributor Locator’ above. |
 Olympus EVIS LUCERA
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Olympus medical products are manufactured in Olympus’ Aizu, Shirakawa, Hinode and Aomori facilities Japan, by Olympus Winter & Ibe in Hamburg, Germany, and by KeyMed in the UK.
KeyMed is also the exclusive UK distributor and service centre for Aloka diagnostic ultrasound systems - an area which now represents a significant part of the company’s medical business. |
 Endoscopic Surgery Procedure |
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| Service and repair of all products sold is carried out in purpose-built service laboratories at the KeyMed facilities in Southend and Dublin, with installed systems being maintained by a team of strategically placed field service engineers. |
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KeyMed and its subsidiary, sister and parent companies have certificated quality management systems in place to assure that its products and services meet the stringent standards required globally for medical equipment manufacture, supply and repair, allowing them to CE mark their products in accordance with the European Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC.
All Olympus facilities, together with KeyMed in Southend, are also certificated to ISO 14001, the international environmental management standard. | |
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