Shimadzu Corporation, 2013 Earnings Call, May 13, 2013

On April 8th, Shimadzu Corporation will release Laser Mirrors and Laser Windows optimized for use with high power lasers. These products will also be exhibited at LASER World of PHOTONICS. These will be used in industrial fields to increase the speed of laser finishing; in medical treatment fields for laser treatments and X-ray beam generation; and in physics and chemistry related fields to achieve high sensitivity laser measurements. Laser Mirrors and Laser Windows are indispensable optical components of laser equipment. Unfortunately, when these optical elements are subjected to high power laser light, there have been problems with damage and loss of functionality. Accordingly, there have been calls for the development of optical elements with a high laser induced damage threshold. As a result, Shimadzu has developed Laser Mirrors with a high damage threshold and high reflectance, and Laser Windows with a high damage threshold and high transmittance, for use with high power YAG lasers and Ti-sapphire lasers. By adopting amorphous coating techniques, at YAG laser wavelengths have obtained Laser Mirrors with 1.4 times the conventional damage threshold, a globally top-level value, and Laser Windows with 1.6 times the conventional damage threshold. In addition, these products provide high level performance, with reflectance values of 99.9% or higher for the Laser Mirrors and transmittance values of 99.5% or higher for the Laser Windows. By contributing to the implementation of high power lasers, these products will contribute to the development of a variety of fields, including the expansion of applications in laser finishing fields, the achievement of cutting-edge medical treatments, analysis in the life sciences, and the development of new materials. Note that these products utilize technology developed in collaboration with the Quantum Beam Science Director Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

Shimadzu Corporation announced that the company will establish a wholly owned sales company named Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Taiwan) Co. Ltd. (SST) on April 8, 2013 in order to enhance its sales and service structure in Taiwan. In Taiwan, Shimadzu Corporation formerly sold its analytical and measuring instruments through local distributors. Shimadzu will establish the new company to start selling its products directly and enhance its marketing and technical assistance for distributors in order to improve market penetration of the Shimadzu brand. SST will have an application laboratory where mass spectrometers(MS), high-performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC) and other analytical and measuring instruments are installed. Using these instruments, SST will develop and propose on-target analytical methods to satisfy diversified needs of customers involved in R&D and quality control, to offer excellent customer support.