HOYA Corporation (7741.T)

HOYA Corporation, a med-tech company, provides high-tech and medical products in the Japan, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through two segments: Life Care, and Information and Communications. It offers life care products, including eyeglasses; contact lenses; medical endoscopes; intraocular lenses; laparoscopic surgical instruments; automatic endoscope cleaning equipment; and other medical related products, such as prosthetic ceramic fillers and metallic implants for orthopedics, brain surgery, and dentistry. The company also operates Eyecity, a specialty retailer of contact lenses. In addition, it provides information technology products, such as mask blanks and photomasks for manufacturing semiconductor chips; glass disks for hard disk drives; and imaging related products that comprise optical glasses/optical lenses, colored glass filters, and UV light resources. Further, the company engages in research, development, manufacture, and sale of photomasks for manufacturing flat panel displays. HOYA Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Shinjuku, Japan.