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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] | |
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]
History
Founding and early years
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]
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,[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]
Acquisition history
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]
Gallery
Products
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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. -
2009 MALDI mass spectrometer (in the Applications Lab of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD) -
SHIMADZU GC-2010 Plus High-end Gas Chromatograph
Buildings
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Shimadzu Foundation Memorial Hall in the Nakagyo-ku ward of Kyoto in 2006 -
Shimadzu office building in Tokyo
See also
- List of companies of Japan
- List of scientific instruments manufacturers
- Medical devices
- Laboratory equipment
- Mass spectrometry
References
- ^ Official website
- ^ a b "FY2019 Operating Results＆Financial Position" (PDF).
- ^ "Corporate Profile". 9 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Corporate Profile". Retrieved April 16, 2014.
- ^ a b "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
- ^ 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. ISBN 9780415567732.
- ^ a b Swartz, Michael E. (2000-02-18). Analytical Techniques in Combinatorial Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 9780203909966.
- ^ a b The Decade of the Great War. Koninklijke Brill. 2014. pp. 362–363. ISBN 978-90-04-27427-3. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
- ^ A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gareth Edwards (March 29, 2005). "Shimadzu's million-frame-per-second video camera". Engadget. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Jesus Diaz (March 21, 2014). "Watch a ball breaking glass filmed at 10 million frames per second". Sploid. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ "Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A". Archived from the original on June 29, 2007.
- ^ Official website
- ^ Official website
- ^ Official website
- ^ Official website
External links
- Official global website (in English)
- Official Japanese website (in Japanese)
- Official Asia Pacific online webstore (in English)
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