HOYA Corporation is a med-tech company that provides high-tech and medical products internationally. It operates through two segments: Life Care and Information and Communications. The Life Care segment offers eyeglasses, contact lenses, medical endoscopes, intraocular lenses, laparoscopic surgical instruments, automatic endoscope cleaning devices, and other medical products such as prosthetic ceramic fillers and metallic implants for orthopedics. The company also operates Eyecity, a specialty retailer of contact lenses. In addition, it provides information technology products including mask blanks and photomasks for semiconductor chip manufacturing, glass disks for hard disk drives, and imaging-related products such as optical glasses, optical lenses, colored glass filters, and laser equipment/UV light resources. It also researches, develops, manufactures, and sells photomasks for flat panel displays, and offers ReadSpeaker, a speech synthesis software. HOYA Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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