Company Story
1949 - Haemonetics Corporation was founded by Jack Latham in Braintree, Massachusetts.
1951 - Introduced the first blood bag, which revolutionized blood collection and storage.
1961 - Developed the first automated blood component separator, the Model 30.
1971 - Introduced the first sterile, disposable blood collection set.
1980 - Developed the first automated plateletpheresis system, the PCS.
1990 - Introduced the first nucleic acid testing (NAT) system for blood screening.
2000 - Acquired the blood banking business of Baxter International.
2004 - Introduced the TEG thrombelastograph hemostasis analyzer.
2012 - Acquired the blood collection and diagnostics business of Pall Corporation.
2017 - Introduced the NexSys PC system for plasma collection and storage.