Shimadzu

Shimadzu Corporation
Native name
株式会社 島津製作所
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 peopleTeruhisa Ueda, (President and Chief Executive Officer)
ProductsScientific, medical, aircraft and industrial instruments
Revenue$ 3.5 billion (FY 2019) (¥ 385.4 billion) (FY 2019)
$ 384.19 million (FY 2019) (¥ 41.8 billion) (FY 2019)
Number of employees
13,182 (as of March 31, 2020)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes

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. The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.

History

Founding and early years

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

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. The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.

Genzo Shimadzu Sr's son Genzo Shimadzu Jr was the second president of the company and also founded battery manufacturer GS (now GS Yuasa) in 1917.

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, 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. Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays.

Koichi Tanaka won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a new mass spectrometry method. Embarrassed by Tanaka's low rank at the company, Shimadzu immediately promoted him to research fellow, and named a laboratory after him.

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.

Acquisition history

In 2024, Shimadzu's scientific Instruments "SSI" acquired ZefSci (Zef Scientific, Inc.) to strengthen their core position in the Multi Vendor Space.

In 2019, Shimadzu's Medical subsidiary in USA acquired CORE Medical Imaging, Inc. to strengthen healthcare business in North America.

In 2018, Shimadzu acquired Infraserv Vakuumservice GmbH of Germany in order to strengthen their turbomolecular pump sales and service capabilities in Europe.

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

In 1989, Shimadzu Corporation acquired Kratos Group Plc. in U.K. to expand in surface analysis and MALDI-TOF segments.

Products

Buildings

See also

References

  1. ↑ Official website
  2. 1 2 "FY2019 Operating Results＆Financial Position" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "Corporate Profile". 9 February 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Corporate Profile". Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
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  9. ↑ A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Gareth Edwards (March 29, 2005). "Shimadzu's million-frame-per-second video camera". Engadget. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ Jesus Diaz (March 21, 2014). "Watch a ball breaking glass filmed at 10 million frames per second". Sploid. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A". Archived from the original on June 29, 2007.
  14. ↑ Watts, Jonathan (2002-11-04). "Japan's newest star: a chemist". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2026-07-09.
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