Smiths Medical International
Smiths Group
Smiths is a global technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange and a world leader in the practical application of advanced technologies. Smiths has evolved substantially since its foundation in 1851, today employing over 23,000 people in over 50 countries. Smiths Group has five divisions - Smiths Detection, Smiths Medical, John Crane, Smiths Interconnect and Flex-Tek. They are focused on the threat & contraband detection, medical devices, energy, communications and engineered components markets worldwide. Our products and services make the world safer, healthier and more productive.
Our customers range from governments and their agencies, to hospitals, petrochemical companies and equipment manufacturers and service providers in various sectors around the world.
Smiths has great opportunities to create value by improving performance and growing our businesses. Each division is seizing these opportunities: Delivering efficiencies by restructuring and using our scale more effectively; supporting sales growth by increasing manufacturing and service capacity; creating growth by expanding activity in developing markets; increasing our technology and geographic footprint through bolt-on acquisitions; and driving growth in our technology businesses by investing in targeted research and development.
Smiths Group successfully takes high value-added products and services into some of the most interesting markets around the world. We are bringing technology to life.
Smiths Medical
Emergency Healthcare Solutions for Military and Homeland Defense
Smiths Medical is a leading global provider of medical devices for the hospital, emergency, home and specialist environments.Our products are used during critical and intensive care, surgery, post-operative care during recovery, and in a series of high-end home infusion therapies.
As part of Smiths Group plc, a UK FTSE 100 listed company, Smiths Medical has strong links with the Military and Homeland Defense. For over 60 years, Smiths Medical has been developing a range of products specifically for use by the military and homeland defense. Many of the products in this range were designed in consultation with military organizations across the world, in order to ensure they meet the stringent demands placed on them in unique and hazardous circumstances.
We offer 12 of the most respected and easily recognisable brands within our portfolio: Portex™, Medex™, Deltec™, Level1™, Cozmore™, Pneupac™, Wallace™, CADD™, BCI™, Jelco™, Medfusion™ and Surgivet™.
Smiths Medical employs some 7,500 people, with manufacturing concentrated in the US, the UK, Mexico and Italy. Most territories are serviced through wholly-owned local sales and distribution companies.
Smiths Detection Group
Smiths Detection is a world leader in products and systems to detect and identify threats to our freedom, safeguarding society against terrorism and criminality and protecting our emergency responders and armed forces. Its technologies detect chemical and biological warfare agents, explosives and narcotics, including powerful X-ray imaging technologies to identify weapons and illegal goods. Please see www.smithsdetection.com
