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Dräger
German manufacturer of SCBA (PSS 7000 series), gas detection, and medical technology. Founded 1889. Produces respirators and SCBA at facilities in Lübeck, Germany and Blyth, UK. Global reputation for high-reliability firefighter and industrial safety equipment.
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Safety Division (SCBA, Gas Detection, Hazmat)
48%Medical Technology (ICU Ventilators + Anesthesia)
48%Testing & Simulation
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Did you know2023
Dräger produces the PSS 7000 SCBA for firefighters who enter burning buildings AND the Babylog VN500 neonatal ventilator that breathes for premature infants in NICU AND the Evita V500 ICU ventilator that breathes for COVID-19 patients in intensive care AND the Alcotest 7510 breathalyzer that police use to detect drunk drivers. All four applications share one technical common thread: measuring, controlling, or delivering respiratory gases with precision. Dräger is the only company globally that occupies dominant positions in all four respiratory-technology markets simultaneously. During COVID-19 spring 2020, Germany's government allocated emergency funds to Dräger to immediately ramp Evita ventilator production, while simultaneously Dräger's firefighter SCBA division continued normal operations. The company that saves premature babies' lungs, rescues patients from COVID respiratory failure, protects firefighters entering structural fires, and monitors driver sobriety is headquartered in Lübeck, Germany and still family-controlled after 135 years.
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA ↗Origin2023
Drägerwerk AG was founded in 1889 in Lübeck, Germany by Bernhard Dräger, who invented the first pressure regulator for compressed gas. The original product was a pressure-reducing valve for gas lamps — a prosaic beginning. In 1902, Heinrich Dräger (Bernhard's son) invented the Pulmotor, the first mechanical artificial respiration device, used to revive miners after gas accidents. This single invention defined the dual trajectory of the company: safety equipment for industrial hazards AND medical respiratory support. By the 1930s, Dräger was making both gas masks for military/industrial use and oxygen equipment for hospitals. Today Dräger operates as two roughly equal divisions — Safety and Medical — with both traced to the same 1889 Lübeck pressure valve workshop and the 1902 Pulmotor invention.
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA ↗Capacity2023
Dräger's Babylog VN500 neonatal ventilator is the world's most widely used ventilator for premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Premature infants born before 28 weeks gestation may have underdeveloped lungs that cannot sustain breathing independently — neonatal ventilation is the difference between survival and death for the most premature births. Dräger has been making neonatal ventilators since the 1970s and the Babylog brand is trusted in NICUs across Europe, Asia, and developing markets. The same Lübeck company that makes the SCBA for a firefighter who will enter a 700°C structure fire also makes the ventilator supporting a 500-gram premature infant. These two applications are as physically extreme as possible — one end of the spectrum being the most hostile environment a human can enter; the other being the most vulnerable human physiology that medical technology must support.
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA ↗