Businessweek

Shimadzu Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of analytical and measuring instruments, medical systems and equipment, aircraft equipment, and industrial machinery. The company offers analytical and measuring instruments for gas and liquid chromatography, gas and liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometry, data management and software, spectroscopy, elemental and surface analysis, total organic carbon analysis, continuous monitoring analysis, thermal analysis, and particle size analysis, as well as materials testing and inspection instruments, life science lab instruments, non-destructive inspection instruments, and balances. It also provides medical systems and equipment for angiography, fluoroscopy, mobile X-ray, and radiography; aircraft equipment, such as landing gear and flight control systems; and industrial equipment for ceramics, metals, mining, clinical, forensics, electronics, environment, food, beverages, machinery, automotive, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, and life science sectors. In addition, the company offers semiconductor and flat panel display equipment, including turbo molecular pumps, helium leak detectors, antireflection film coating systems, multi deposition system, and liquid crystal injection systems; and hydraulic equipment comprising hydraulic gear pumps, power packages, and manual stack valves for mobile. Further, it provides optical and laser devices, such as diffraction gratings, aspherical mirrors, polka-dot beamsplitters, spectro-sensor units, precision spectrometers and refractometers, contact liquid, and laser modules and laser devices, as well as material, cell process, and module process evaluation solutions for the photovoltaic industry. The company sells its products in Japan, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, India, and other countries. Shimadzu Corporation was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.