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Since its beginnings in 1945, the KARL STORZ family company has grown into a global manufacturer and distributor of endoscopes, medical instruments, and devices. We are no giant on an international scale but a leader in the things that matter: creativity, flexibility, and expertise.

Our range of endoscopic instruments for human medicine and veterinary medicine now includes more than 15,000 products. The most recent KARL STORZ developments are in digital documentation systems and comprehensive operating room concepts. As a system supplier, the company combines its expertise in endoscopy with software solutions to achieve integration in the operating room and to support clinical process and resource management.

As early as in 1970 the use of the first ultrasound lithotripter worldwide for the treatment of urinary stones had broken new ground already. At the beginning of 1987, the decision to develop an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter followed and, in November of the same year the STORZ MEDICAL AG was eventually established in Switzerland. 

One year later, STORZ MEDICAL applied for a patent for the electromagnetic cylindrical source, which remains the heart of all its focused shock wave systems up to date. It was also in 1988 that the prototype of the first modular lithotripter in the world, the MODULITH® SL10, was presented – a technological sensation