It all began with Marcel Guerbet’s discovery of the first iodinated organic contrast medium in 1901. The company was later founded in 1926 by André Guerbet.

Guerbet South Africa (Pty) Ltd was established in 2015 after the acquisition of Mallinckrodt’s Contrast Media and Delivery Systems (CMDS) business globally, establishing a global footprint.

In 2025, Guerbet South Africa will celebrate 10 years of striving towards providing the highest level of safety, quality and efficiency in the medical imaging market since our registration. We are passionate about our healthcare mission; it is at the very heart of our company.

At Guerbet, we build lasting relationships so that we enable people to live better. That is our purpose. We are a leader in medical imaging worldwide, offering a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and digital and AI solutions for diagnostic and interventional imaging.

Innovation irrigates all our decisions and actions hence we devote 10% of our revenue to research and development annually. To improve our existing products and create new ones to meet unmet medical needs. We want to be a spearhead in developing new concepts in the world of healthcare.

Guerbet launched a strategic initiative in digital technologies and artificial intelligence, to improve radiologists’ productivity and facilitate and secure diagnosis, decision making and therapeutic follow- up in medical imaging.

Innovation is in our DNA. Guerbet partnered with NUCLIDIUM who leads in pioneering a new generation of targeted radiotheranostics that present a significant advancement in cancer treatment. This strategy presents a promising approach to enhancing patient access and improving disease staging and treatment.

We are committed to ethical business practices, and it is instilled in every employee’s daily activities. It is our responsibility to conduct business using high quality and ethical standards, Guerbet strives to ensure sustainable development while minimising the Group’s environmental impact across all its activities, from production to customer delivery.

We seek to make their lives better, through a diagnosis or a treatment that we aim to be ever more effective. We are attentive to each human being in our environment which is why we make the utmost effort to achieve this goal.