Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
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, veterinary medicine, and industrial endoscopy 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.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1945
About Us
This guiding statement of company management is well known to each and every KARL STORZ staff member. It stands for the characteristics that are at the root of the company’s success: Visionary ideas that are grounded by traditional, precise workmanship and are integrated into a concept of sustainable entrepreneurship. With this recipe for success, the company confidently faces future challenges. Long-term, sustainable development is always our primary concern. Our family-run company plans in terms of generations rather than quarters.
It is only consistent that employees play a key role in this managerial paradigm. Any company’s success is the result of its people, who contribute their skills and thereby advance ideas. Consequently, our company strives to create long-term relationships with our employees, support them through advanced training, and thereby pool experience. Many years and often decades of employment with the company is the rule at KARL STORZ and ensures reliability and stability for the company and employees alike.
Compliance
The KARL STORZ family-run company is committed to legal compliance, honesty, loyalty, transparency, sustainability, and fairness in everyday business operations. These values are not abstract requirements but rather essential guidelines for our corporate activity. Our company founder, Dr. med. h. c. Karl Storz, already practiced these values and recognized them as the key to long-term, sustainable success. Following laws and company-specific rules and principles of conduct is nowadays referred to as “compliance”. For KARL STORZ, this means that each and every employee, all supervisors, and the management board continuously ensure that our business activities are always conducted respecting the law and ethical rules. For this purpose, the company management in Tuttlingen puts in place global compliance standards in the form of a code of conduct and associated guidelines. At our worldwide sites, these standards are bindingly implemented through local instructions or expanded if national law requires.
Throughout recent decades, our company has worked hard to gain an excellent reputation for quality and innovation in endoscopy. Therefore, each and every employee is responsible for maintaining this excellent reputation and for further promoting it through positive action, for strengthening our customers’ confidence placed in us time and again and for safeguarding the company from any illegal or unethical actions. The compliance guidelines created for this purpose offer employees clear orientation, and to our customers and suppliers, they promise partnership in a fair and transparent business process.
KARL STORZ has a worldwide whistleblower system in place for the early detection of compliance violations, initiation of countermeasures, and determination of preventive measures for the future. KARL STORZ staff members and third parties may report relevant violations or concerns at any time.
Quality and Precision
Looking back at his life and career, Karl Storz once described his commitment to quality as follows: “I only finished a task when I was completely satisfied with the quality of my work, when I could say that I would let my family be treated with this instrument.” This commitment to quality is still of paramount importance to the company and is a cornerstone of the development and production of our industrial products. The company’s philosophy of in-house training ensures the continuity of this commitment to quality by all KARL STORZ employees, whether it be filigree craftsmanship or on more modern production lines – only the highest quality counts. Endoscopes as well as medical instruments and appliances from KARL STORZ are esteemed throughout the world as the most advanced and reliable available.
Product safety is of utmost importance to KARL STORZ. Quality assurance, therefore, plays an important role that goes far beyond statutory requirements. Intensive checks and safety tests with specially developed in-house automatic measuring systems and individual documentation are standard procedure. Each and every product has its own unmistakable fingerprint.