Steris PLC STE

What this company does

STERIS is a global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. It offers consumable products such as detergents, endoscopy accessories, barrier products, instruments and tools; services including equipment installation and maintenance, microbial reduction of medical devices, instrument and scope repair, laboratory testing, and outsourced reprocessing; capital equipment such as sterilizers, surgical tables, and automated endoscope reprocessors; and connectivity solutions such as operating room integration. During fiscal 2026, the company averaged approximately 18,000 employees throughout the world. STERIS operates and reports its financial information in three reportable business segments: Healthcare, Applied Sterilization Technologies, and Life Sciences. The Healthcare segment provides an offering for healthcare providers worldwide, focused on sterile processing departments and procedural centers, such as operating rooms and endoscopy suites. The AST segment supports medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers through a global network of contract sterilization and laboratory testing facilities, and integrated sterilization equipment and control systems. The Life Sciences segment provides an offering of products and services designed to support biopharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing facilities, in particular those focused on aseptic manufacturing.

Written from the business description in STERIS plc's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 May 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.