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About ZOLL

ZOLL, an Asahi Kasei company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions that help advance emergency care and save lives while increasing clinical and operational efficiencies. With products for defibrillation and cardiac monitoring, circulation enhancement and CPR feedback, supersaturated oxygen therapy, data management, ventilation, therapeutic temperature management, and sleep apnoea diagnosis and treatment, ZOLL provides a comprehensive set of technologies that help clinicians, EMS and fire professionals, as well as lay rescuers, improve patient outcomes in critical cardiopulmonary conditions.  

About Asahi Kasei

The Asahi Kasei Group contributes to life and living for people around the world. Since its foundation in 1922 with ammonia and cellulose fibre businesses, Asahi Kasei has consistently grown through the proactive transformation of its business portfolio to meet the evolving needs of every age. With more than 46,000 employees around the world, the company contributes to a sustainable society by providing solutions to the world's challenges through its three business sectors of Material, Homes and Health Care. Its health care operations include devices and systems for acute critical care, dialysis, therapeutic apheresis, transfusion, and manufacture of biotherapeutics, as well as pharmaceuticals and diagnostic reagents. For more information, visit www.asahi-kasei.com.

Asahi Kasei is also dedicated to sustainability initiatives and is contributing to achieving a carbon neutral society by 2050. To learn more, visit www.asahi-kasei.com/sustainability/.

Corporate Headquarters:

269 Mill Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
(978) 421-9655

Press Contact:

Edna Kaplan
KOGS Communication, LLC on behalf of ZOLL Medical Corporation
+1 (617) 974-8659
[email protected]

UK Press Contact:

Jill Garratt
Marketing Manager
01928 595160
[email protected]

Company History:

Founded in 1980 by

  • Paul M. Zoll, M.D.
  • Willard M. Bright
  • Rolf S. Stutz

Public: 1992-2012

Acquired in 2012 by Asahi Kasei