NIHON KOHDEN Corporation (Japan) was founded by Dr. Yoshio Ogino in 1951. Our vision from the start "Fighting Disease With Electronics" resulted in NIHON KOHDEN expanding into Japan’s leading medical equipment manufacturer. Dr. Ogino and his initial staff of twelve shared the ground-breaking concept of combining engineering and medicine – two disciplines that were firmly separated up to 1951. The result was a totally new form of ideas factory, one that was capable of efficiently and rapidly transforming the latest findings from medical research into high-quality, cutting-edge technical equipment; as an example, it took the company a mere four months from starting business to developing and marketing the world’s first AC powered eight-channel EEG unit – the ME-1D.
Currently, NIHON KOHDEN is Japan’s largest medical equipment manufacturer with a staff of four thousand employees across the globe – a major international supplier of highly reliable state-of-the-art medical technology. The company’s shares are traded in the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s “First Section” for major enterprises.
We at NIHON KOHDEN EUROPE GmbH (NKE) European headquarters are responsible for the entire European market.
Apart from our subsidiaries, NIHON KOHDEN Italia (Bergamo), NIHON KOHDEN Iberica (Madrid) und NIHON KOHDEN France (Paris), we also have a tightly woven specialist distribution network that covers every country in Europe.
We have been providing reliable, expert services in Germany since 1985. Apart from our European headquarters in Rosbach v.d.H and our north-eastern office in Kleinmachnow, we have a large number of carefully hand-picked authorised specialist distributors.