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Kyowa Medex Historical Overview

1981 Kyowa Medex Co.,Ltd. established as a solely owned subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko focusing on developing, manufacturing and marketing in vitro diagnostics.
1987 “Determiner DUPAN-2" EIA-based tumor marker
1990 A new plant and research laboratories constructed in Shizuoka Prefecture.
1994 “Determiner HDL-C" for the direct measurement of HDL-Cholesterol
1995 “Determiner HbA1c" immuno particle assay-based diabetes test reagent.
1996 “Determiner L HDL-C", Commencement of export to worldwide after receipt of the world's first approval from CDC.
1997 “HM-JACK", the fully automatic Human hemoglobin analyzer for the fecal occult blood test The Fuji plant ISO9001certified.
1998 “Determiner L LDL-C", “DM-JACK" the automatic analyzer for diabetes tests.
2001 “AP-96", the fully automatic microplate EIA analyzer The Fuji plant ISO14001 certified.
2002 “Determiner BNP", the cardiac failure marker.
2003 ISO13485 certified.
2006 “Metabolead RemL-C" launched
2008 Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. established under capital and strategic alliance of Kyowa Hakko Kogyo and Kirin Pharma. “Metabolead HDL-C” launched
2009 CL-JACK launched (Domestic only)
2010 HM-JACKarc launched