COSMED is a privately held, international, medical technology corporation specialized in Metabolic and Cardio Pulmonary diagnostic testing equipment aimed for either professional or medical use in different application fields (Hospital, Sports Science, Health care, Professional sports and Wellness).
History
Founded in 1980 and based in Rome, Italy, COSMED started manufacturing portable spirometers and pulmonary function testing equipment. In the nineties, the company introduced new systems for gas exchange measurements and patented the first portable system with telemetric data transmission for the measurement of metabolic parameters during field-testing.[1]
During early 2000 COSMED started to expand international business incorporating subsidiaries and registered offices in several countries (USA, China, Germany, UK).
In 2011, COSMED USA, Inc. completed the acquisition of US company Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI),[2] a provider of body composition assessment equipment based on Air Displacement Plethysmography