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How it started
History
The origins of the company date back to 1968, when near on an initiative of Fiat and Montecatini, the "Sorin Biomedica" was founded by the "Società Ricerche Impianti Nucleari - Sorin". In 1997 American Standard acquired Sorin Biomedica, together with Immunonuclear Corporation (Incstar, Inc.). The two companies formed the Medical System Group of American Standard that later on came to include also Sienna Biotech, Inc Diasorin became an independent Italian group in 2000, through a management buyout operation led by Carlo Rosa and Gustavo Denegri.
The etymology of the name contains the acronym of Sorin, "Nuclear plant research company", the company established in the 1960s, and "Dia" which stands for Diagnostics. In 1997 Sorin decided to build upon the activities relating to in vitro diagnostics into a company that took on the name of Diasorin Vercelli.
From Wikipedia’s article on DiaSorin, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2