STERIS Corporation · Mentor, OH United States ·(NYSE: STE)

STERIS has hygiene hysteria. The company makes sterilization systems for health care, research, and industrial markets. In addition to the company's sanitizing lotions and soaps, health care professionals use the firm's steam and chemical sterilization systems to sterilize surgical and diagnostic devices. STERIS also makes disinfection systems and infection prevention consumables. The company sells such surgical support products as exam lights, surgical tables, and scrub sinks. STERIS sells its equipment and consumables in more than 60 countries. In North America, its Isomedix unit also offers contract sterilization services for health care, industrial, and consumer products makers. To read the full description, subscribe now.