Eizo
| EIZO Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | JP3651080008 |
| founding | March 1968 |
| Seat |
Hakusan , Ishikawa, Japan
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| management | Yoshitaka Jitsumori (President and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 2,239 (2016) |
| sales | $ 604 million (2015) |
| Branch | Hardware; Information technology |
| Website | www.eizoglobal.com |
EIZO Corporation ( Japanese EIZO 株式会社 EIZO Kabushiki kaisha ), EIZO for short , is a Japanese manufacturer of computer monitors .
The name "EIZO" is an allusion to the Japanese word for "image" ( Japanese 映像 , eizō in romaji ).
Products
The company's product range includes different screens in the upper price range. EIZO tries not to sell a universal solution for all purposes, but rather specially developed products for applications mainly in the commercial sector. Different product lines emerged from this principle.
The FlexScan line was developed for office applications, which was mainly designed for word processing, business applications and CAD and is available in different formats and designs. In addition to today's LCD monitors, FlexScan also referred to earlier tube monitors for office applications.
The ColorEdge series achieves extremely precise color reproduction, for which special accessories such as color sensors for calibration are also sold. The areas of application for these products range from image processing to film and television productions.
The Foris series was developed for the gaming / home entertainment market, which is very well suited for fast computer games thanks to its fast response time.
With the products of the DuraVision series, a robust system is available for industry that can also be installed in racks and withstand high loads such as temperature differences, vibrations, shocks, etc. Screen solutions for control rooms, ship bridges and monitoring applications are also offered in this line.
Furthermore, separate product classes called RadiForce and CuratOR have been developed for medicine, which in turn are divided into separate categories for different purposes. There are color and grayscale monitors for radiological diagnosis, monitors for medical viewing, monitors for the operating theater and a wide range of accessories to choose from. All RadiForce and CuratOR monitors meet the approval criteria for medical applications. The RadiForce series is sometimes not sold directly to end customers, which is not least due to the high end price of up to over € 20,000.
history
In March 1968 the Hakui Electronic Corporation was founded in Hakui, Japan; TV sets were initially made. The name was changed in March 1973 to "Nanao Corporation". The production of industrial monitors began in 1976 and PC monitors in 1981. In April 1981 a production facility was opened in Matto (now Hakusan ).
Hitec Associates Ltd. was founded in September 1984 . as a sales branch for the European market. This was renamed EIZO Corporation in January 1990 . In May of the following year, the sale of monitors under the EIZO brand in Europe began. In September of the same year, Nanao USA Corporation (now EIZO Nanao Technologies Inc.) was founded in California and sales of monitors under the “Nanao” brand in the USA began.
EIZO Sweden AB, founded in Sweden in September 1992 (today EIZO Nordic AB), began selling LCD monitors for gaming rooms. In April 1996, the brand name was standardized worldwide to "EIZO". In February 1998 the EIZO Support Network Corporation was founded in Hakusan, Japan, and after-sales service was started with seven offices in Japan. In April 1999 the Nanao Corporation merged with the EIZO Corporation to form the EIZO Nanao Corporation . This was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in March 2002 in the second section and a year later in the first section .
In July 2005, sales in Switzerland were transferred to Excom AG. The EIZO Nanao AG , based in Au-Wädenswil was founded. This focuses on the sale of LCD monitors for professional use in the financial sector, radiology and the (image processing) graphics industry. In March 2007, EIZO opened a new research and development building in Hakusan. This offers space for up to 600 employees on an area of 13,000 m². In June of the same year, EIZO Corporation Japan acquired the Medical Monitors division from Siemens A&D. As a result, EIZO GmbH was founded with headquarters in Karlsruhe .
In November 2009, EIZO Corporation Japan bought the monitor business from eg-electronic GmbH. Then EIZO Technologies GmbH was founded with headquarters in Wolfratshausen Germany. At the beginning of July 2012, the company opened its new sales and marketing headquarters in Europe with EIZO Europe GmbH in Mönchengladbach . In 2013, EIZO Nanao Corporation was renamed EIZO Corporation again .
In April 2014, EIZO GmbH from Karlsruhe opened a facility in Plauen . The OR Solutions branch there deals with special solutions for the operating theater.
In 2015, EIZO acquired the system integration business of Imation Corporation in the Japanese medical market and established the wholly-owned subsidiary EIZO Medical Solutions Inc.
In February 2016, EIZO Corporation announced that it had completed construction of a $ 25 million (3 billion yen) manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Hakusan, Japan. The plant will be used to manufacture monitors for medical and industrial applications. The new factory is already the second at EIZO's headquarters and the fourth in Japan. The five-story building with an area of 15,000 square meters increases the production capacity in Japan by 30% and allows EIZO to meet the increasing demand for monitors for medical and industrial applications. The plant went into operation in June 2016.
In the same year, the endoscopy monitor segment is taken over by Panasonic Healthcare Japan.
In 2018 Carina System Co., Ltd. taken from Japan.
The company was certified according to ISO 9002 in 1993, ISO 9001 in 1997 and ISO 14000-1 in 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ eizoglobal.com
- ^ Google Finance
- ^ Eizo Company History. (No longer available online.) 2012, archived from the original on May 1, 2012 ; accessed on April 24, 2012 .
- ↑ 50 years of EIZO: The milestones. In: Eizo. 2018, accessed September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ eg-electronic - company - history , website of eg-electronic GmbH, accessed on December 4, 2009
- ↑ EIZO Europe website: Company history. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ EIZO Global Website: press release. (PDF) February 2, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2018 (English).
- ↑ EIZO Global Website: press release. (PDF) June 6, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2018 (English).
- ↑ EIZO Global Website: press release. (PDF) March 30, 2018, accessed on September 27, 2018 .