Sakura Finetek

Sakura Finetek, a private Japanese company based in Tokyo, is a histology automation leader with the Tissue-Tek processors, embedders and stainers and the Genie immunohistochemistry platform. It holds a large share of tissue processing equipment worldwide. OnCo links it to histology automation and IHC autostainers. Whether the pre-analytical steps it automates, from fixation to sectioning, are standardised well enough for AI pathology models trained at one site to work at another is the question its market position raises. The histology automation page carries the wider picture.