Native name 株式会社 島津製作所 Traded as TYO: 7701
OSE: 7701 Area served Worldwide | Type Public KK Industry Precision Instruments CEO Teruhisa Ueda (Jun 2015–) | |
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Key people Akira Nakamoto, (CEO and President) Headquarters Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Stock price 7701 (TYO) JP¥ 1,769 -21.00 (-1.17%)31 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer Founded 1875, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Founders Genzō Shimazu I, Genzo Shimadzu Subsidiaries Shimadzu Science West Co.,Ltd. | ||
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.
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Founding and early years
The company was established by Genzo Shimadzu (島津 源蔵, Shimazu Genzō) in 1875. X-ray devices, the spectrum camera, the electron microscope, and the gas chromatograph were developed and commercialized in advance of other Japanese companies. The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.
Recent developments
In 2002, Koichi Tanaka, a longstanding employee, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules.
The company also developed, in 2005, an ultra-high speed video camera, HyperVision HPV-1, which is capable of recording at 1,000,000 FPS, while in 2014 it released the HyperVision HPV-X, a camera that achieves ultra-high-speed continuous recording at 10 million frames per second. Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays.
Shimadzu is the world's only producer of a "Direct-Conversion" Flat Panel Detector for Cardiac, Angiography and General Radiography examinations.
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.