Sven Husted-Andersen, Sr. founds his first company D.E.H., Dansk Elektrohegn, in Copenhagen. The company produces and sells electrical apparatus for pasture fences and later also electrical mixers and shavers, alongside other products.

Sven Husted-Andersen, Sr. becomes interested in medicine when he befriends a Swedish medical doctor who served in the Korean War. Sterility problems and poor hygiene during medical care for ill and injured people inspire him to develop medical products for single use.

In the mid-fifties, PVC-tubing could be produced for medical use for the first time. Due to that, D.E.H. was one of the first companies with a product of this kind in the world.

Manufacture of the first automatically air-vented infusion set in the world – the R61 infusion set.

Expansion of capacity, completion and commissioning of the new production building on the company site in Lensahn, a large new sterilisation unit also being part of the investment.

CODAN develops and sells the first Cyto-Ad Z® systems for administration of cytotoxic drugs.

Relocation of MEDLON Inc. to Santa Ana, California, USA, and change of name to CODAN US Corporation.

Acquisition of sales and production company CODAN ARGUS AG in Switzerland.
Development, production and sales of volumetric infusion und syringe pumps.

Establishment of the direct sales company CODAN Medical GmbH in Austria.