HOYA Corporation

HOYA Corporation, a Tokyo-headquartered med-tech company established in 1941, delivers a wide array of high-tech and medical products across the globe. Its operations are primarily structured into three segments: Life Care, Information Technology, and Other. The Life Care division focuses on vision correction products, producing eyeglass and contact lenses, and operating the specialty retail chain Eyecity. This segment also encompasses a variety of medical devices, including endoscopes, intraocular lenses, laparoscopic surgical instruments, automatic endoscope cleaning equipment, and other medical solutions like prosthetic ceramic fillers and metallic implants for orthopedics. In its Information Technology segment, HOYA provides essential components for the tech industry. These include mask blanks and photomasks crucial for semiconductor manufacturing, glass disks for hard disk drives, and imaging products such as optical glasses, colored glass filters, and laser/UV light resources. The company additionally researches, develops, manufactures, and sells photomasks used in flat panel displays. Furthermore, HOYA extends its offerings to include software solutions like ReadSpeaker for speech synthesis, and cloud services such as Kinnosuke for time and attendance management, and Yonosuke for electronic payslips.