Shimadzu

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Native name

| 株式会社 島津製作所
Type| Public KK

Traded as

| TYO: 7701
OSE: 7701
Industry| Precision Instruments
Founded| Kyoto, Japan (1875 (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]

Net income

| $ 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]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Founding and early years
* 1.2 Developments
* 2 Acquisition history
* 3 Gallery
* 3.1 Products
* 3.2 Buildings
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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]

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,[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 2024, Shimadzu's scientific Instruments "SSI" acquired ZefSci (Zef Scientific, Inc.) to strengthen their core position in the Multi Vendor Space. [14]

In 2019, Shimadzu's Medical subsidiary in USA acquired CORE Medical Imaging, Inc. to strengthen healthcare business in North America.[15]

In 2018, Shimadzu acquired Infraserv Vakuumservice GmbH of Germany in order to strengthen their turbomolecular pump sales and service capabilities in Europe.[16]

In 2017, Shimadzu acquired AlsaChim, a specialist for high-quality analytical isotope labeled standards.[17]

In 1989, Shimadzu Corporation acquired Kratos Group Plc. in U.K. to expand in surface analysis and MALDI-TOF segments.[18]

## Gallery

### Products

* 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

* 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

1. ↑ Official website
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "FY2019 Operating Results＆Financial Position". https://www.shimadzu.com/sites/shimadzu.com/files/ir/1o3m/70x9p2k3fkomprg5.pdf.
3. ↑ "Corporate Profile". 9 February 2018. https://www.shimadzu.com/about/profile.html.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Corporate Profile". http://www.shimadzu.com/about/profile/index.html.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Annual Report 2013". http://www.shimadzu.com/ir/oh80jt0000000ui5-att/5iqj1d000001wdt4.pdf.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=jnCsbk_d5G8C&pg=PA94.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Swartz, Michael E. (2000-02-18). Analytical Techniques in Combinatorial Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 278–279. ISBN 9780203909966. https://books.google.com/books?id=sA7t0r-DqRsC&pg=PA278.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Decade of the Great War. Koninklijke Brill. 2014. pp. 362–363. ISBN 978-90-04-27427-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=dWi7AwAAQBAJ&q=Shimazu Genzō. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
9. ↑ A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site
10. ↑ Gareth Edwards (March 29, 2005). "Shimadzu's million-frame-per-second video camera". Engadget. https://www.engadget.com/2005/03/29/shimadzus-million-frame-per-second-video-camera/.
11. ↑ "A World's First - Journey to Unknown Realms of High Resolution and Ultra-High Speeds". Shimadzu. http://www.shimadzu.com/an/test/hpv/hpv-x_1.html.
12. ↑ Jesus Diaz (March 21, 2014). "Watch a ball breaking glass filmed at 10 million frames per second". Sploid. http://sploid.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-watch-a-ball-breaking-glass-at-10-million-fr-1549252509/+jesusdiaz.
13. ↑ "Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A". Archived from the original on June 29, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070629183155/http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/hmd/dg-a.html.
14. ↑ Official website
15. ↑ Official website
16. ↑ Official website
17. ↑ Official website
18. ↑ Official website

## External links

* Official global website Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
* Official Japanese website Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
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