please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message maquet the gold standard type business unit of getinge founded 1838 founder johann friedrich fischer headquarters rastatt germany products surgical workplaces critical care and cardiovascular revenue 1.172 billion eur 2010 number of employees approx . 5 000 website www.maquet.com companies portal maquet self styled as maquet is a multinational german company based in rastatt with focus on equipment for surgical workplaces anesthesia systems workstations for intensive care and cardiovascular devices . maquet does business in three primary divisions surgical workplaces critical care and cardiovascular . maquet is one of the three primary business units of swedish parent getinge group . productions facilities are located in germany rastatt hirrlingen hechingen france ardon la ciotat sweden solna turkey antalya china suzhou united states california san jose new jersey fairfield mahwah wayne puerto rico dorado history edit the foundation for maquet was laid in 1838 by johann friedrich fischer in heidelberg . the company manufactured and sold patient chairs and other health care equipment . in 1876 it was a takeover of the company by curt maquet . in 1933 the company relocated to rastatt germany . in 2000 maquet was acquired by getinge group leading to the foundation of the business area medical systems within the getinge group . by the beginning of 2008 maquet has started into a phase of development into a therapeutic medical company providing products and services to the or operating room er emergency room icu intensive care unit nicu neonatal intensive care unit of acute care hospitals on a global basis . in 2008 maquet acquired us based datascope corporation which was ranked among the top three global leaders of intra aortic balloon iab counterpulsation technology . datascope is a diversified cardiovascular device company that develops manufactures and markets proprietary products for clinical health care markets in interventional cardiology cardiovascular and vascular surgery and critical care . their products were sold globally through direct sales representatives and independent distributors . founded in 1964 datascope is headquartered in montvale new jersey and maintains a state of the art r & d facility in mahwah new jersey . on march 12 2008 chinese medical device manufacturer mindray announced that they reached agreement with datascope to acquire datascope s patient monitoring business pmb . the acquisition launched mindray into the ranks of leading international medical device vendors and created the then third largest player in the global patient monitoring device industry . mindray paid datascope 202 million cash in the transaction . datascope retained approximately 38 million of receivables generated by the patient monitoring business for a total of 250 million . the datascope pmb generated 161.3 million in sales in 2007 . mindray expected around 30 million of run rate synergies in manufacturing sg & a and r & d within 3 years . mindray retains rights to the datascope brand until 2015 ; however maquet owing to its primary ownership position and acquisition role pertaining to datascope s other products and services has been conceded in a special arrangement to mindray . accordingly all web traffic re direction rights content and links to former datascope products and services now owned by maquet auto redirect to its homepage specifically for support of all devices not now owned by mindray . external links edit maquet retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title maquet & oldid 712987907 categories manufacturing companies of germanyhidden categories articles lacking sources from july 2012all articles lacking sources navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch svenska edit links this page was last modified on 1 april 2016 at 06 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view