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Shimadzu Corporation
Native name
株式会社 島津製作所
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 7701
OSE: 7701
IndustryPrecision Instruments
FoundedKyoto, Japan (1875 (1875))
FounderGenzo Shimadzu
Headquarters1, Nishinokyo-Kuwabara-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8511, Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Teruhisa Ueda, (President and Chief Executive Officer)[1]
ProductsScientific, medical , aircraft and industrial instruments
Revenue$ 2.8 billion (FY 2012) (¥ 264.048 billion) (FY 2012)
$ 80.6 million (FY 2012) (¥ 7.578 billion) (FY 2012)
Number of employees
10,395 (as of March 31, 2013)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[2][3]

Shimadzu Corporation (株式会社 島津製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Shimadzu Seisakusho) is a Japanese public KK company, manufacturing precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment, based in Kyoto, Japan. It was established in 1875.[4] The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.[5]

History

Founding and early years

The company was established by Genzo Shimadzu Sr.島津 源蔵 (Shimazu Genzō) in 1875.[4] During the 1890s and 1900s, Shimadzu experienced rapid growth that occurred at the same time as higher education grew in Japan.[6]

X-ray devices, the spectrum camera, the electron microscope, and the gas chromatograph were developed and commercialized in advance of other Japanese companies. Shimadzu became a corporation in 1917.[6] The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.[5]

Developments

The company also developed, in 2001, an ultra-high speed video camera, HyperVision HPV-1, which is capable of recording at 1,000,000 FPS,[7][8] while in 2016 it released the HyperVision HPV-X2, a camera that achieves ultra-high-speed continuous recording at 10 million frames per second at Full Pixel Resolution.[9][10] Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays.[11]

The company had revenue of ¥264.048 billion yen ($2.8 billion USD) in FY 2012, with 10,395 employees as of March 31, 2013.[2][3]

Acquisition history

In 2019, Shimadzu's Medical subsidiary in USA acquired CORE Medical Imaging, Inc. to strengthen Healthcare Business in North America. [12]

In 2018, Shimadzu acquired Infraserv Vakuumservice GmbH of Germany in order to strengthen their Turbomolecular Pump Sales and Service Capabilities in Europe.[13]

In 2017, Shimadzu acquired AlsaChim, a specialist for high-quality analytical isotope labeled standards.[14]

In 1989, Shimadzu Corporation acquired Kratos Group Plc. in U.K. to expand in Surface Analysis, MALD-TOF segments.[15]

Gallery

Products

  • Shimadzu's Nexera series HPLC (2019)
    Shimadzu's Nexera series HPLC (2019)
  • Inside the cover of a Shimadzu Ion Trap-Time of Flight mass spectrometer in 2008. Visible are power supplies, circuit boards, the flight tube, ion gauges etc.
    Inside the cover of a Shimadzu Ion Trap-Time of Flight mass spectrometer in 2008. Visible are power supplies, circuit boards, the flight tube, ion gauges etc.
  • 2009 MALDI mass spectrometer (in the Applications Lab of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD)
    2009 MALDI mass spectrometer (in the Applications Lab of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD)
  • SHIMADZU GC-2010 Plus High-end Gas Chromatograph
    SHIMADZU GC-2010 Plus High-end Gas Chromatograph

Buildings

  • Shimadzu Foundation Memorial Hall in the Nakagyo-ku ward of Kyoto in 2006
    Shimadzu Foundation Memorial Hall in the Nakagyo-ku ward of Kyoto in 2006
  • Shimadzu office building in Tokyo
    Shimadzu office building in Tokyo

See also

References

  1. ^ Official website
  2. ^ a b "Corporate Profile". Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  4. ^ a b Goto, Kazuko (2012). "Craft and creativity: New economic spaces in Kyoto". New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn. Routledge.
  5. ^ a b Swartz, Michael E. (2000-02-18). Analytical Techniques in Combinatorial Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 9780203909966.
  6. ^ a b The Decade of the Great War. Koninklijke Brill. 2014. pp. 362–363. ISBN 978-90-04-27427-3. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. ^ A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Gareth Edwards (March 29, 2005). "Shimadzu's million-frame-per-second video camera". Engadget. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  9. ^ "A World's First - Journey to Unknown Realms of High Resolution and Ultra-High Speeds". Shimadzu. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  10. ^ Jesus Diaz (March 21, 2014). "Watch a ball breaking glass filmed at 10 million frames per second". Sploid. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  11. ^ Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Official website
  13. ^ Official website
  14. ^ Official website
  15. ^ Official website

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