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Shimadzu

Shimadzu Corporation
Native name
株式会社 島津製作所
Public KK
Traded as :
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
Akira Nakamoto, (CEO and President)
Products Scientific, medical , aircraft and industrial instruments
Revenue

$ 2.8 billion (FY 2012)

(¥ 264.048 billion) (FY 2012)
Profit

$ 80.6 million (FY 2012)

(¥ 7.578 billion) (FY 2012)
Number of employees
10,395 (as of March 31, 2013)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references

$ 2.8 billion (FY 2012)

$ 80.6 million (FY 2012)

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.

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.

In 2002, Koichi Tanaka, a longstanding employee, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules.


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