Shimadzu
{{Short description|Japanese laboratory instruments manufacturer}}
{{Other uses|Shimazu (disambiguation)}}
{{primary sources|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Shimadzu Corporation
|native_name = 株式会社 島津製作所
|traded_as = {{TYO|7701}}
OSE: 7701
|foundation = Kyoto, Japan ({{start date|1875}})
|founder = Genzo Shimadzu
|location = 1, Nishinokyo-Kuwabara-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8511, Japan
|key_people = Teruhisa Ueda, (President and Chief Executive Officer){{Official website | url=https://www.shimadzu.com/about/profile.html }}
|area_served = Worldwide
|industry = Precision Instruments
|products = Scientific, medical, aircraft and industrial instruments
|revenue = $ 3.5 billion (FY 2019)
(¥ 385.4 billion) (FY 2019){{cite web | title=FY2019 Operating Results＆Financial Position | url=https://www.shimadzu.com/sites/shimadzu.com/files/ir/1o3m/70x9p2k3fkomprg5.pdf }}
|net_income = $ 384.19 million (FY 2019)
|num_employees = 13,182 (as of March 31, 2020){{cite web | title=Corporate Profile | date=9 February 2018| url=https://www.shimadzu.com/about/profile.html}}
|homepage = {{Official website|http://www.shimadzu.com/index.html}}
|footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://www.shimadzu.com/about/profile/index.html |title=Corporate Profile |access-date=April 16, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.shimadzu.com/ir/oh80jt0000000ui5-att/5iqj1d000001wdt4.pdf |title=Annual Report 2013 |access-date=April 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327093226/http://shimadzu.com/ir/oh80jt0000000ui5-att/5iqj1d000001wdt4.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2014 }}
}}
{{Nihongo|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 {{Nihongo|Genzo Shimadzu Sr.|島津 源蔵|Shimazu Genzō}} in 1875.{{cite book|last=Goto|first=Kazuko|title=New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnCsbk_d5G8C&pg=PA94|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|chapter=Craft and creativity: New economic spaces in Kyoto|isbn=9780415567732 }} During the 1890s and 1900s, Shimadzu experienced rapid growth that occurred at the same time as higher education grew in Japan.{{cite book |title=The Decade of the Great War |date=2014 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |isbn=978-90-04-27427-3 |pages=362–363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWi7AwAAQBAJ&q=Shimazu%20Genz%C5%8D |access-date=7 August 2020}}
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.{{cite book|last=Swartz|first=Michael E.|title=Analytical Techniques in Combinatorial Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sA7t0r-DqRsC&pg=PA278|date=2000-02-18|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780203909966|pages=278–279}}
=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,[http://www1.shimadzu.com/products/test/hsvc.html A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208195419/http://www1.shimadzu.com/products/test/hsvc.html |date=2007-02-08 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.engadget.com/2005/03/29/shimadzus-million-frame-per-second-video-camera/ |title=Shimadzu's million-frame-per-second video camera |author=Gareth Edwards |publisher=Engadget |date=March 29, 2005 |access-date=April 16, 2014}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.shimadzu.com/an/test/hpv/hpv-x_1.html |title=A World's First - Journey to Unknown Realms of High Resolution and Ultra-High Speeds |publisher=Shimadzu |access-date=April 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419030051/http://www.shimadzu.com/an/test/hpv/hpv-x_1.html |archive-date=April 19, 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://sploid.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-watch-a-ball-breaking-glass-at-10-million-fr-1549252509/+jesusdiaz |title=Watch a ball breaking glass filmed at 10 million frames per second |author=Jesus Diaz |publisher=Sploid |date=March 21, 2014 |access-date=April 17, 2014}} Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/hmd/dg-a.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629183155/http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/hmd/dg-a.html|url-status=dead|title=Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A|archivedate=June 29, 2007}}
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 2019, Shimadzu's Medical subsidiary in USA acquired CORE Medical Imaging, Inc. to strengthen healthcare business in North America.{{Official website | url=https://www.shimadzu.com/news/epcwkbm6au53m7xw.html }}
In 2018, Shimadzu acquired Infraserv Vakuumservice GmbH of Germany in order to strengthen their turbomolecular pump sales and service capabilities in Europe.{{Official website | url=https://www.shimadzu.com/news/9fejfmd4je8r8dzf.html }}
In 2017, Shimadzu acquired AlsaChim, a specialist for high-quality analytical isotope labeled standards.{{Official website | url=https://www.shimadzu.eu/shimadzu-has-acquired-alsachim-specialist-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.{{Official website | url=https://www.shimadzu.com/about/history.html }}
Gallery
=Products=
{{Gallery|width=150|
File:000 Nexera FV blue JPG.jpg|Shimadzu's Nexera series HPLC (2019)|
File:IT-TOF electronics.jpg|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.|
File:MALDITOF2.jpg|2009 MALDI mass spectrometer (in the Applications Lab of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD)
|File:SHIMADZU GC-2010 Plus High-end Gas Chromatograph.jpg|SHIMADZU GC-2010 Plus High-end Gas Chromatograph|}}
=Buildings=
{{Gallery|width=150|
File:Shimadzu-Foundation-Memorial-Hall-02.jpg|Shimadzu Foundation Memorial Hall in the Nakagyo-ku ward of Kyoto in 2006|
|Headquarters of Shimadzu Europa GmbH and Shimadzu Germany in Duisburg, Germany|
File:Shimadzu Tokyo Office.jpg|Shimadzu office building in Tokyo|}}
See also
{{Portal|Japan|Electronics|Companies}}
- List of companies of Japan
- List of scientific instruments manufacturers
- Medical devices
- Laboratory equipment
- Mass spectrometry
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References
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External links
{{Commons category|Shimadzu Corporation}}
- [http://www.shimadzu.com/ Official global website] {{in lang|en}}
- [http://www.shimadzu.co.jp/ Official Japanese website] {{in lang|ja}}
- [https://www.shopshimadzu.com/ Official Asia Pacific online webstore] {{in lang|en}}
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Category:Electronics companies of Japan
Category:Defense companies of Japan
Category:Instrument-making corporations
Category:Laboratory equipment manufacturers
Category:Medical technology companies of Japan
Category:X-ray equipment manufacturers
Category:Research support companies
Category:Manufacturing companies based in Kyoto
Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1875
Category:Japanese companies established in 1875