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Business Description
12 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business Description Business Description
 
Throughout this document, references to “Cantel,” “us,” “we,” “our,” and the “Company” are references to Cantel Medical Corp. and its subsidiaries, except where the context makes it clear the reference is to Cantel itself and not its subsidiaries. Unless otherwise indicated, references in this Form 10-K to 2020, 2019, 2018 or “fiscal” 2020, 2019, 2018 or other years refer to our fiscal year ended July 31 of that respective year, and references to 2021 or “fiscal” 2021 refer to our fiscal year ending July 31, 2021.

Cantel is a leading provider of infection prevention and control products and services in the healthcare market, specializing in the following reportable segments:

Medical: designs, develops, manufactures, sells and installs a comprehensive offering of products and services comprising a complete circle of infection prevention solutions. Our products include endoscope reprocessing and endoscopy procedure products.
Life Sciences: designs, develops, manufactures, sells and installs water purification systems for medical, pharmaceutical and other bacteria controlled applications. We also provide filtration/separation and disinfectant technologies to the medical and life science markets through a worldwide distributor network.
Dental: designs, manufactures, sells, supplies and distributes a broad selection of products used by the global dental profession, comprising a complete circle of protection. Our products include hand and powered dental instruments, infection control products, personal protective equipment (PPE) and water quality products for the dental suite.
Dialysis: designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services reprocessing systems and sterilants for dialyzers (a device serving as an artificial kidney), as well as dialysate concentrates and supplies utilized for renal dialysis.
 
See Note 18, “Reportable Segments.”
 
Most of our equipment, consumables and supplies are used to help prevent the occurrence or spread of infections.