Year | Detail |
1971 |
Hideo Ozawa established NIDEK CO. LTD. to meet social requirements for specialized eye care. |
1972 |
With the development of the Xenon Photocoagulator, the company entered into the industry of ophthalmic devices. |
1979 |
NIDEK established NIDEK SALES CO. LTD. as an independent sales organization in Japan. |
1980 |
NIDEK developed an auto refractometer AR-2000 to measure the eye's refraction when making eyeglasses. |
1989 |
The company introduced lens edging systems with the launch of the LE-8000, a patternless edger. |
1992 |
NIDEK introduced EC-5000, an excimer laser corneal refraction corrective device to ablate corneal tissue to change the refractive power of the eyes to treat myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. |
2001 |
NIDEK Established NIDEK TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L. (ITALY) and NIDEK TECHNOLOGIES AMERICA INC. (U.S.) |
2009 |
NIDEK introduced RS-3000, an Advanced OCT / SLO System, a spectral domain OCT made by Japan. |
2012 |
NIDEK Launched the endothelial cell photographing device CEM-530 PARACENTRAL, the paracentral imaging function. |
2018 |
The company founded NIDEK MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS(CHANGSHU) CO., LTD. in China. |
2019 |
NIDEK launched the Mirante Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope, a multimodal fundus imaging platform that integrates high-definition S.L.O. and OCT with ultra-wide-field imaging. |
2021 |
The company introduced Ocural, one of ophthalmology's second regenerative medicine products. |
2022 |
NIDEK TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L., a subsidiary of NIDEK CO. LTD., acquired 90% of the shares of NIDEK MEDICAL S.R.L., an ophthalmic device sales and service company. |
2023 |
NIDEK launched NP-1/NP-1C Preloaded IOL Injection System designed for smoother, safer, and more secure IOL implantation. |