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Kabushiki-gaisha Shimadzu Seisakusho is a Japanese public company Kabushiki kaisha 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 Shimazu Genzō in 1875.

Kazuko Goto (2025). 9780415567732, Routledge. ISBN 9780415567732

During the 1890s and 1900s, Shimadzu experienced rapid growth that occurred at the same time as higher education grew in Japan.

(2025). 9789004274273, Koninklijke Brill. . ISBN 9789004274273

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.

Michael E. Swartz (2000). 9780203909966, CRC Press. . ISBN 9780203909966

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, A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site 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.

The company had revenue of Japanese yen264.048 billion yen (US dollar2.8 billion USD) in Fiscal year 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.

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.