Medico's Hirata Inc. Medical Corporation is a manufacturing company from the sale of medical equipment. We hold regular seminars to conferences.

In 1950, Hirata Kikai changed its company name to Hirata Taiseido Ltd. At the time, its main sales territory was Kansai region in Japan. Hirata Taiseido's sign, which still remains, advocates "Medical Instruments, Rubber Products for Medical Use, Surgical Dressing Materials, Medical Science Goods, Magnetic Glass Products, and other sets of Supplementary Medical Products" as the items it dealt with.

In 1963, it was reorganized from private limited company to a Business Corporation, changing its name to Hirata Sangyo Inc. A few years later, Hirata Sangyo entered into a distribution agreement with a pioneering manufacturer for catheters, which transformed the company from a local dealer of medical instruments to a Nation-wide Import Company dealing in IVR devices, and became the initiator of state-of-the-art healthcare such as catheter interventions. Later, it opened its way to introduction and provision of brain surgery and cardiovascular related products.

In the 1980's, Hirata Sangyo entered the cardiovascular surgery field, and started dealing in products such as vascular grafts and cardio-surgical instruments. In 1983. it opened up a market for endoscopic instruments, and expanded its work through hands-on workshops and seminars relating to each field, thus making contributions to medical fronts.

To correspond to such contributions, the company expanded its locations throughout Japan, starting with the opening of Tokyo branch in the late 1970's, and in 1987, opened Sakai Distributing Center in Sakai city of Osaka prefecture, serving as the "control tower" for the company's sales structure. At present, the company has expanded to 11 business locations all over Japan.

Hirata Sangyo changed its company name to Medico's Hirata Inc. in 1993. The company has been a medical device import company. However, in order to meet the changing needs of medical environment, the company acquired the "medical devices manufacturing license" in 1988 with the kind support of manufacturers and healthcare professionals, thus allowing the company to sell its own products as well.

In the recent years, Medico's Hirata successfully introduced Aortic stent graft in Japan for the first time in 2006, with the intention to provide enhanced medical treatment with less psychological and physical burden. Medico's Hirata will continue to provide safety and reassurance in medical treatment, and will also continue to devote itself to social contribution.

• Our Pedigree
• Our Product History

Our Pedigree

1918	January	Hirata Kikai Founded
1950	October	Hirata Taiseido Ltd. Established
1963	February	Reorganized into Hirata Sangyo Inc.
1977	April	Tokyo Sales Office (Later, the Tokyo Branch) opened
1978	August October	Nagoya Sales Office opened (The predecessor of Tokai Hokuriku Branch) Fukuoka Sales Office (Later, the Kyushu Branch) opened
1981	December	Sendai Sales Office opened
1986	August September	Yokohama Sales Office opened Kanazawa Sales Office opened (The predecessor of Tokai Hokuriku Branch Kanazawa Sub-branch Office) Sapporo Sales Office opened
1987	December	Sakai Distribution Center opened
1990	June	Matsuyama Sales Office opened
1993	April	Company name changed to Medico's Hirata Inc.
2000	April	Shizuoka Sub-branch Office opened
2001	April	Hiroshima Sub-branch Office(Later, the Hiroshima Sales Office) opened
2009	May	Obtained ISO13485:2003 and ISO9001:2008 certifications(Osaka Headquarters, Sakai Distribution Center, Sales and Marketing Headquarters / Clinical and Regulatory Affairs Group)
2010	August	Matsuyama Office relocated to Takamatsu Office
2018	June	Shizuoka Sub-branch Office was closed and integrated into Tokai-Hokuriku Branch Office.

Product History