NewsWeek interviews Nipro
Nipro has many different business segments, from medical devices such as renal, injection, and infusion products, to the development of pharmaceutical drugs to the packaging including syringes and glass tubes. How does a synergy among all the segments exist?
Nipro President, Yoshihiko Sano shares:
Let me use hospitals as an example. In hospitals they dispense medicines for their patients and the same goes for injection and transfusion, with the dispensing work every year a few people die due to an illness such as Hepatitis B, that is why we do not want the hospitals to do the dispensing. For this reason, a form of packaging technology was created. Because hospitals are facing certain problems, we try to give them solutions. Naturally, we establish a system by supplying certain products; that is certainly a synergy. Our three business segments - Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, and Pharma Packaging - are there to cater to the needs at hospitals.
Since our business is diverse, hospitals have given us higher levels of requests. For example, they wanted to find a way to mix two different medicines before administering them to their patients. If we mix two different medicines the quality of the medicines changes, also if these medicines are exposed to the air the risk of infection increases. Our company came up with an idea to put two different chambers in a syringe which make the mixing of two different medicines possible before giving them to the patients.
