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Japanese laboratory instruments manufacturer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[6] The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.[7]
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Native name | 株式会社 島津製作所 |
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| Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 7701 OSE: 7701 | |
| Industry | Precision Instruments |
| Founded | Kyoto, Japan (1875) |
| Founder | Genzo Shimadzu |
| Headquarters | 1, Nishinokyo-Kuwabara-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8511, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Teruhisa Ueda, (President and Chief Executive Officer)[1] |
| Products | Scientific, medical, aircraft and industrial instruments |
| Revenue | $ 3.5 billion (FY 2019) (¥ 385.4 billion) (FY 2019)[2] |
| $ 384.19 million (FY 2019) (¥ 41.8 billion) (FY 2019)[2] | |
Number of employees | 13,182 (as of March 31, 2020)[3] |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [4][5] | |
The company was established by Genzo Shimadzu Sr. (島津 源蔵, Shimazu Genzō) in 1875.[6] During the 1890s and 1900s, Shimadzu experienced rapid growth that occurred at the same time as higher education grew in Japan.[8]
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.[8] The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.[7]
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,[9][10] 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.[11][12] Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays.[13]
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.[4][5]
In 2019, Shimadzu's Medical subsidiary in USA acquired CORE Medical Imaging, Inc. to strengthen healthcare business in North America.[14]
In 2018, Shimadzu acquired Infraserv Vakuumservice GmbH of Germany in order to strengthen their turbomolecular pump sales and service capabilities in Europe.[15]
In 2017, Shimadzu acquired AlsaChim, a specialist for high-quality analytical isotope labeled standards.[16]
In 1989, Shimadzu Corporation acquired Kratos Group Plc. in U.K. to expand in surface analysis and MALDI-TOF segments.[17]
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