Diploma PLC, together with its subsidiaries, supplies specialized technical products and services in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Seals, and Controls. The Life Sciences sector supplies consumables and instruments for the diagnostic testing of blood, tissue, and other samples in hospital pathology and life sciences laboratories; electrosurgery equipment and consumables for use in hospital operating rooms; and medical devices, and related consumables and services to GI endoscopy suites in hospitals and private clinics. It also provides environmental analyzers and containment enclosures for potent powder handling; and equipment and services for the monitoring and control of environmental emissions, as well as gas detection devices. The Seals sector supplies a range of seals, gaskets, filters, cylinders, components, and kits used in heavy mobile machinery and specialized industrial equipment; and sealing products, custom moulded and machined parts, and hydraulic cylinder components to manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment. The Controls sector offers wiring, protective sleeving, connectors and harnessing products, aerospace-quality fasteners, customized assemblies, and cables and cable accessories for technical applications in aerospace and defense, motorsport, energy, medical, rail, and industrial industries; flexible braided products for screening, earthing and lightning protection, power shunt connectors, multi-core cables, cable markers, sleeving and trunking, and specialty fasteners; and fluid controllers, compressors, valves, temperature and pressure measurement devices, and specialized vending and liquid dispensing components for food retailing and transportation, catering equipment, coffee brewing, pure water, and water cooling systems in the food and beverage industry. Diploma PLC was incorporated in 1999 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.