Shimadzu Corp.

Company Overview

Shimadzu Corp. is a precision tools and equipment maker. The company develops, manufactures, and sells analytical and measuring instruments, medical systems, and aircraft and industrial equipment. Shimadzu researches, develops, and markets products through its related companies in Japan, the U.S., the U.K., and China. The company offers analytical instrumentation solutions for drug analysis/screening, trace analysis, and forensic pharmacology. Under development is a newly developed rapid screening method covering 161 forensic drugs in Japan using ultra-high-speed triple quadrupole mass spectrometry.

Shimadzu is a Japanese-owned multinational corporation with various business divisions, including:

• Laboratory instruments.
• Medical systems and equipment.
• Testing and inspection machines.
• Aircraft equipment.
• Balances and scales.
• Industrial equipment.
• Optical devices.
• Head monitoring displays. 
• Life science laboratory instruments.

The analytical instruments division provides gas and liquid chromatographs, GC-MS, LC-MS, AA, FT-IR, and UV/visual spectrophotometry instruments and supplies.

Financial Highlights (FY 2023)

Company's Business Segments

• Analytical and Measuring Instruments : Supports research, technology development, and quality control in a variety of fields, including pharmaceuticals, foods, and materials by offering high-performance analytical instruments. Key Products are Liquid chromatograph, mass spectrometer system, spectrometer, environmental monitoring instrument, testing machine.
• Medical Systems and Equipment : Contributes to maintaining and improving the health of people by offering medical systems for supporting accurate diagnoses. Key Products Angiography system, fluoroscopy system, general radiography system Diagnostic X-ray imaging for pneumonia, bone fractures.
• Aircraft Equipment : This business supplies cutting-edge aircraft equipment to help ensure safety, improve comfort, and reduce stress. Key Products Flight control system, Controlling the aircraft attitude.
• Industrial Machinery : These high-performance key components support advanced manufacturing and help promote industrial development. Key Products Turbomolecular pump, hydraulic equipment, industrial furnace, Generating vacuum environments for semiconductor manufacturing processes, Motive power sources for industrial vehicles.
• Other : High precision optical devices essential for spectroscopic techniques, such as diffraction gratings, spherical/ aspherical mirrors, special lenses and polarizers, but also extend to optical instruments such as compact spectroscopes.