Olympus Sets Up Shop in Costa Rica
October 29th, 2009 | by admin |Olympus, the Japan-based company that manufactures optics and imaging products, is setting up shop in Costa Rica to serve the Central American and South American markets.
Olympus, named after Mount Olympus, the home of the 12 supreme gods and goddesses in Greek mythology, has a long history in camera and lens design.
In 1936, Olympus introduced its first camera. Today, the company is a leading manufacturer of digital cameras, with a large range of compact digital cameras. Olympus is the designer of the Four-Thirds System standard for digital single-lens reflex camera design and development, which uses the same frame size as the PEN cameras.
Olympus also manufactures and provides client support for its fully automated random access automated analysers for clinical chemistry, immuno chemistry, and blood grouping.
These analyzers are used in medical laboratories by medical technologists. Other Olympus products used in the clinical laboratory are microscopes utilized by the microbiology and hematology departments. Many Olympus imaging products are used in hospital endoscopy departments. The whole diagnostic business was sold to Beckman Coulter in August 2009.
From Costa Rica, the company will providing marketing and distribution services for Central America and Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
