CompanyHistory
Future and Tradition
Product Range
Vision
Pillars of endoscopy
Training and logistics center
History 1993 - 1999
Launch of the KARL STORZ–SCB® (STORZ Communication Bus)
Photodynamic Diagnosis (PDD) and autofluorescence (AF) bring fundamental improvements in early tumor diagnosis with the optical fluorescence technique and marker substance in the bladder and in the bronchi.
1996
Dr. med. h. c. Karl Storz dies at the age of eighty-five.
Dr. med. h. c. Karl Storz dies at the age of eighty-five.
1998
KARL STORZ presents the KARL STORZ OR1™ for the first time at the MEDICA trade fair.
1999
The new logistics and training center is opened.
Swiveling V-block: The possibility of a rigid endoscope with variable direction of view over a large field of vision has been realized.