# STERIS plc

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## Overview

STERIS plc is a healthcare and life sciences company focused on infection prevention and sterile processing. It serves healthcare providers and medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturers with equipment, consumables, technical services, contract sterilization, and laboratory testing. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323959)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323964)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323972)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323978)

STERIS reports three business segments: Healthcare, Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST), and Life Sciences. Its offerings range from sterilization and washing equipment and services for healthcare settings to contract sterilization and testing, and products supporting aseptic manufacturing. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323958)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323965)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323966)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323973)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323979) The company describes a global footprint, with AST facilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia; its careers site reports operations in more than 100 countries and over 300 facilities. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323973)[10](https://careers.steris.com/us/en/home)

STERIS states its mission is to help customers create a healthier and safer world. [11](https://www.steris.com/about/company) In FY2026, the year ended March 31, 2026, revenue from continuing operations was $5.936 billion. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185855) The company reports more than 18,000 associates on its careers site. [10](https://careers.steris.com/us/en/home)
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## Products & services

STERIS’s Healthcare portfolio includes sterilizers and washers for sterile-processing departments, automated endoscope reprocessors, endoscopy products, surgical tables and lights, sterility-assurance products, infection-prevention consumables, cleaning chemistries, and operating-room integration solutions. Services include equipment installation, maintenance and repair, device and instrument repair, process-improvement support, and outsourced sterile processing. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323964)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323965)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323966)[13](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/steam-sterilizers/amsco-evolution-steam-sterilizer)[14](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/washing-and-decontamination-systems/washer-disinfectors/reliance-vision-multi-chamber-washerdisinfector)[15](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/endoscope-reprocessing/automated-endoscope-reprocessors/enspire-300-series-automated-endoscope-reprocessor)[16](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/or-integration-systems)

Life Sciences supplies equipment, consumables, maintenance and specialty services for biopharmaceutical and medical-device research and manufacturing. Products include washers and sterilizers for laboratory and cGMP settings, pharmaceutical-grade washers such as the Reliance 480PG, and vaporized-hydrogen-peroxide (VHP) equipment. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324977)[18](https://www.sterislifesciences.com/Products/Washing-and-Sterilization-Equipment)[19](https://www.sterislifesciences.com/Products/Washing-and-Sterilization-Equipment/Washers/Reliance-480PG)[20](https://www.sterislifesciences.com/products/vhp-equipment) Specific Healthcare examples include the V-PRO maX 2, which offers a 16-minute Fast Non Lumen cycle, and the compact V-PRO s2, specified as 22.5 inches wide with a 19-minute cycle; both use vaporized hydrogen peroxide. [21](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/v-pro-sterilizers/v-pro-max-2-low-temperature-sterilization-system)[22](https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/v-pro-sterilizers/v-pro-s2-low-temperature-sterilization-system)

Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) provides contract sterilization, laboratory testing and validation, and related equipment and control systems for medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Its services include electron-beam, gamma and X-ray processing, as well as testing such as design verification, tensile and leak testing, aging and shelf-life studies, and distribution testing. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324978)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324979)[25](https://www.steris-ast.com/solutions/contract-sterilization-services)[26](https://www.steris-ast.com/solutions/testing-and-validation/product-testing)[27](https://www.steris-ast.com/solutions/testing-and-validation) In fiscal 2026, segment revenue was $4,208.6 million for Healthcare, $1,138.5 million for AST and $588.8 million for Life Sciences—approximately 70.9%, 19.2% and 9.9% of total revenue, respectively. By revenue type, services were $2,875.8 million (48.4%), consumables $1,808.4 million (30.5%) and capital equipment $1,251.7 million (21.1%). Percentages are calculated from reported amounts and total revenue. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185855)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185848)
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## Geographic presence

STERIS plc’s principal executive office is in Dublin, Ireland, and its primary administrative offices are in Mentor, Ohio. As of March 31, 2026, it reported approximately 250 sales, administrative, manufacturing, and operational locations in the United States and more than 35 other countries. Its contract sterilization business operated more than 60 owned or leased facilities across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, generally near customer manufacturing and distribution sites. [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324250)[30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324253)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324252)

Manufacturing locations listed in the FY2026 filing include Conroe, Texas; Mentor, Ohio; Montgomery, Alabama; Plymouth, Minnesota; St. Louis, Missouri; Point Richmond, California; Franklin Park, Illinois; and Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, in the United States; Guadalupe, Mexico; Quebec City and Ottawa, Canada; Leicester and Bishop’s Stortford, England; Tuusula, Finland; Pomezia, Italy; and Tuttlingen, Germany. [32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185845) STERIS’s healthcare website groups its markets into North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. [33](https://healthcare.steris.com/)

The FY2026 disclosures do not provide revenue by country or geographic region, nor an employee distribution by geography. [34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324972)
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## Business segments

For FY2026, STERIS reported three operating segments. Healthcare serves healthcare providers, with products and services for sterile-processing departments and procedural centers, including infection-prevention products, sterilizers and washers, endoscopy and operating-room equipment, equipment maintenance and repair, consulting, and outsourced sterile processing. It generated $4,208.6 million, approximately 70.9% of segment revenue. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323964)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323965)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323966)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185855)

Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) serves medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturers through contract sterilization, laboratory testing, sterilization equipment and control systems, and related validation and technical services. AST generated $1,138.5 million, approximately 19.2% of segment revenue. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323972)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323973)[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323974)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185855)

Life Sciences serves biopharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing facilities, particularly aseptic manufacturing. Its offerings include pharmaceutical detergents and cleanroom disinfectants, sterilizers and washers, sterility-assurance products, vaporized-hydrogen-peroxide systems, high-purity water and pure-steam generators, and equipment maintenance. It generated $588.8 million, approximately 9.9% of segment revenue. The percentages are calculated from the reported FY2026 segment revenues and $5,935.9 million consolidated total. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323978)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323979)[36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323980)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14185855) Dental was previously reported as a fourth segment; after its FY2025 divestiture, it is presented as discontinued operations rather than a current segment. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123323958)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324972)
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## Company history

STERIS traces its origins to 1985, when Raymond Kralovic founded Innovative Medical Technologies in Mentor, Ohio. The company adopted the name STERIS Corporation in 1987, shipped its first SYSTEM 1 unit in 1988, and completed its initial public offering in 1992. [37](https://www.steris.com/about/our-history) [38](https://sterisplc.gcs-web.com/shareholder-resources/faqs)

STERIS expanded through acquisitions, including AMSCO International and Calgon Vestal Laboratories in 1996 and Isomedix Services in 1997, and moved its stock listing to the New York Stock Exchange in 1998. [37](https://www.steris.com/about/our-history) In 2015, it completed its combination with Synergy Health plc, establishing STERIS plc. [39](https://sterisplc.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/steris-plc-completes-acquisition-synergy-health)

The company acquired Key Surgical in 2020 and Cantel Medical in 2021; Daniel A. Carestio became president and CEO in July 2021. [37](https://www.steris.com/about/our-history) [40](https://www.cantelmedical.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/STERIS-Completes-the-Acquisition-of-Cantel-Medical.pdf) [41](https://sterisplc.gcs-web.com/board-member/daniel-carestio) In 2024, STERIS completed the sale of its Dental segment. [42](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P123324616)
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