Konica Minolta, the parent company of Konica Minolta Medical Imaging, has acquired Brazilian x-ray equipment manufacturer Sawae Technologica.
Konica Minolta said it plans to use the acquisition to enhance its sales of digital radiography (DR) and computed radiography (CR) products and expand its healthcare business in Brazil. Sawae locally manufactures and sells x-ray equipment, primarily covering four major states in southwestern Brazil but also expanding nationwide.
The transaction was completed through Konica Minolta's Brazilian healthcare sales company, Konica Minolta Healthcare do Brasil, which was established in São Paulo in April 2015. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
![Representative example of a 16-year-old male patient with underlying X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. (A, B) Paired anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) report shows lumbar spine (L1 through L4) areal bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA report was reformatted for anonymization and improved readability. The patient had low BMD (Z score ≤ −2.0). (C) Model (chest radiography [CXR]–BMD) output shows the predicted raw BMD and Z score in comparison with the DXA reference standard, together with interpretability analyses using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and gradient-weighted class activation maps. The patient was classified as having low BMD, consistent with the reference standard. AM = age-matched, DEXA = dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, RM2 = room 2, SNUH = Seoul National University Hospital, YA = young adult.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/ai-children-bone-density.0snnf2EJjr.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
