1841 Albert Stille opens his instrument workshop at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm
1872 Invention of the double-action bone rongeur
1877 Launch of nickel-plated instruments
1887 Launch of Stille's first surgical table
1910 Merger with Ch.O. Werner, forming Stille-Werner
1923 Stille-Werner launches stainless steel instruments
1938 Stille-Werner acquired by Nils Westerdahl
1951 Stille-Werner acquires EISA of Eskilstuna, Sweden
1959 Stille-Werner acquires BROLI of Eskilstuna, Sweden
1967 Launch of battery-operated surgical tables
1971 Launch of surgical tables with floating tabletops
1974 Stille acquired by MoDo. Ownership then transferred to Sanna Holding
1980 Launch of surgical tables with modular tabletops
1984 Sonesta founded
1993 Assets and liabilities of Stille AB acquired from Sanna Holdings' bankrupcty by venture capital firm Linc AB
1993 Launch of the first Sonesta table
1996 Launch of ergonomical scissors
1997 Launch of imaging surgical tables
2000 Stille sells its conventional surgical table business to Berchtold GmBL.
2001 Stille launches the imagiQ™ imaging table
2001 Stille acquires Tandria Medical, a Gothenburg-based medical device distribution company
2002 Merger between Stille and Sonesta. Company quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange NGM list
2005 Stille's share quoted on NASDAQ OMX First North
2006 Launch of the 6210 video fluoroscopy table
2009 Start-up of assembly operation with partner in China


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