| Haemonetics Corporation is engaged in developing and manufacturing blood typing and screening technology. The Company offers devices and related consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services. Its direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. The Company manages three global product families: Donor, which markets blood and plasma collection devices, consumables and other business solutions; Patient, which markets into hospitals surgical blood salvage and blood demand diagnostic devices and consumables, as well as blood management services, and Software Solutions and Services, which markets information technology platforms and consulting services to blood and plasma collectors and hospitals. In March 2009, the Company acquired Altivation Software and its primary product, Hemasphere. Hemasphere is a software system focused on mobile blood drive management. |
