Fujifilm
The Japanese company Fujifilm Holdings K. K. (Japanese富士 フイルム ホールディングス 株式会社, Fuji Fuirumu Hōrudingusu Kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Fujifilm Holdings Corporation), listed on the Nikkei 225, began in 1934 with the production of film materials. Since then it has developed through focus on research and development to a global technology company that operates in many business areas. The company is headquartered in Roppongi (Tokyo Midtown ) of the Tokyo city district Minato, (digital cameras, image service, minilab, paper, film), information (graphical Systems, Medical Systems, materials for flat panel displays ) as well as document management is divided into the core areas of Imaging (copiers, office communication, digital printing). Fujifilm achieved a turnover of 16.7 billion euros in fiscal 2009/10 ( 31 March 2010). Approximately 7 % of turnover is invested each year in research and development. Worldwide, more than 74,000 employees.
The Group has several manufacturing facilities in Japan: This includes the Ashigara plant ( production site for photographic film and LCD material ), the Odawara Factory (Production facility for optical glasses), the Fujinomiya Factory and the Yoshida - Minami Factory. The Ashigara plant is situated at the foot of the highest hill Japan, the company was as Mount Fuji ( Mount Fuji ) its name.
The group worldwide include 241 subsidiaries and 49 associated companies, including manufacturing facilities in Japan, China, Indonesia, USA, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany as well as numerous research facilities.
In October 2006, the Group adopted the structure of a holding company. Simultaneously, a new name was announced. From this point on, the earlier Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.. converted into a holding company under the name of Fujifilm Holdings Corporation. This is since the strategic management for the entire Group. To Fujifilm Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo include the Fujifilm Corporation, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.. , The Toyama Chemical Co. Ltd.. and the Fujifilm Business Expert Corporation.
Products
Printing industry
Fujifilm offers one of the broadest product portfolio to meet the needs of the printing industry. Facilities include platesetters (Computer -to-Plate ), digital proofing systems, printing plates, graphic films, proofing media, Large Format Printing ( Industrial Inkjet ) Digital Presses (POD ) software solutions for workflow, color management and digital printing, processing and process chemicals ( prepress, pressroom, etc. ), service and consulting.
In the core business CtP printing plates will continue to invest. Among the existing panel plants in Japan, USA, Europe and China, Fujifilm has taken another plant in operation in China and in 2008 a further investment of 96 million euros to expand the panel plant in Tilburg (Netherlands) announced, but due to the global economic crisis, a construction was halted imposed.
Even in the industrial inkjet printing, Fujifilm has its capacity expanded by acquisitions: the former Sericol Group Linited, now Fujifilm Sericol manufactures colors for screen printing and large format industrial inkjet printer, Avecia Group (now Fujifilm Imaging Colorants ) is a leader in inks and pigments for inkjet printers, and Dimatix Inc. (now Fujifilm Dimatix ) is a leading manufacturer of industrial inkjet printheads.
Medical
Fujifilm Medical Systems offers complete systems covering the digital imaging up to the hospital-wide image distribution. In addition to the classical PACS for use in clinics and hospitals AXON PACS is offered as an archiving solution for small to medium practices or communities of practice. The area " Medical Systems " also includes solutions in the field of digital radiography, the company is considered the inventor of digital radiography and in this sector the world leader.
In early 2008 the acquisition of the pharmaceutical company Toyama had been announced and so that building Fujifilm to so-called "Health Care " companies. Sales in the medical sector is to be tripled in the following ten years, then submit the spectrum of preventive medicine to diagnosis to therapy. Previously, the company Daiichi Radioisotope Laboratories Ltd.. been adopted and incorporated as Fujifilm RI Pharma in the Group. This marks the entry into the nuclear medical imaging diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. In early 2007 the American Problem Solving Concepts Inc. was acquired to enable the integration of cardiology in the Fujifilm 's proprietary PACS system.
On 15 December 2011, the acquisition of SonoSite, a specialist in portable medical ultrasound diagnostic systems, announced.
Life Science
In the Life Science segment fluorescence scanner and CCD camera systems for bio-imaging, digital autoradiography, QuickGene nucleic acid extraction systems for molecular diagnostics and forensics and Clinical Chemistry Analyzer (Fuji Dri- Chem) are offered. As part of the reorientation of the range announced in 2006 was appointed to the core business.
Industrial X-ray
The industrial X-ray comprises film, processing chemicals, developing machines and digital radiography for non-destructive material testing.
Photo and Imaging
The field of photography includes a wide spectrum of the input to output in the photographic process: Digital Cameras. The product range includes cameras for beginners on bridge cameras to professional digital cameras.
Fujifilm sold in the 2000s, digital SLR cameras, the last professional Fuji S5 Pro. Their predecessors were the Fuji S3 Pro and Fuji S2 Pro. These cameras were based on cases of manufacturer Nikon, consequently fit the lenses to all Fujifilm DSLRs. After the S5 Pro Fujifilm stopped production of digital SLR cameras until a further notice.
Below the DSLRs develops and sells Fujifilm FinePix digital cameras under the name, some with a Super CCD sensor. Leaked models with Super CCD were the compact camera FinePix F10 from 2005 especially suitable for shooting in ambient light and the bridge camera FinePix S- 100fs 2008 with unusually large sensor for this class of camera. Meanwhile, Fujifilm, however, have swung from CCD to CMOS sensor technology.
Since 2011, Fujifilm also sells high-quality digital viewfinder cameras, like the mirrorless system cameras X -Pro1 that has interchangeable lenses, the X100 with fixed 1:2 / 23 mm lens as well as the X10 with 7.1 - 28.4 mm zoom lens (focal length 28-112 mm relative to KB - format, see crop factor ).
Further included are memory cards, analog cameras (small -screen viewfinder cameras and disposable cameras), print services ( digital minilabs, photo ordering terminals, instant print systems, large format printing ), Movies ( color negative, slide, Instant, Movies for Professionals ) and papers ( color paper, inkjet photo paper).
Storage media
Fujifilm also has digital storage media (digital mass storage and optical media ) in the product range.
While earlier in CD and DVD media, especially high-quality goods from the Japanese manufacturer Taiyo Yuden and from our own production in Kleve ( Germany ) was sold, most optical storage media now by Ritek, Prodisc (Taiwan) and Moser Baer ( India) are for Fujifilm made .
Fujifilm was the second largest manufacturer of film materials. This was split into three areas: camera negative films for recording, Intermediatefilme ( for analogue and digital copies), print films for projection. The production of film materials was set in 2012, the sale ended in March 2013.
The photographic film has the total sales of the company now only accounts for 3%. Well-known film brands are the Reala and Superia color negative films with 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600 ASA, as well as the Sensia slide film with 100, 200 and 400 ASA. The professional Velvia color slide film, since its introduction in the late 80s as one of the sharpest and most colorful color slide on the market; Another well-known products for professional photographers are the Fuji Provia 100 F, 400 F ( 2007 is replaced by the Provia 400X ) and Fuji Astia 100 F and the Velvia 100 F and the limited and available only in Japan Fortia slide film. 2007, the successor to the " Velvia " was introduced which have changed emulsion, which was necessary " Velvia 50 " due to delivery problems with the chemicals used before. In summer 2012, however, it was revealed that numerous formats of the " Velvia " range are taken due to declining world demand at the end of the market. Widely known Fujifilm was in West Germany at around 1981 as a supplier of slide film ( " Fujichrome 100 "), whose launch was ( inter alia with the use of a blimp over the Ruhr and the Rhineland ) advertised with large advertising expense. These films were first established U.S. (Kodak) and German (Agfa ) make competitors compete successfully, as they initially cost only about two-thirds of the competitive products of comparable quality.
Fuji developed in 1966 as an alternative to the Super -8 format from the Kodak Single-8 format, which gained considerable spread in narrow filmmakers in Japan, the European market, however, behind Super 8 played only a subordinate role. The cassettes of the two systems are incompatible, the film after development does.
The models XPan and Xpan II Hasselblad were also manufactured by Fujifilm and TX 1 and TX -2 sold by Fujifilm as. Another product of Fuji, whose production was discontinued in 2007, however, was of the view camera GX680. Also, the current fault-tolerant system is manufactured by Fujifilm and sold by Hasselblad just yet. Since early 2009, Fuji offers a Faltbalgen camera for roll film format 6x7 cm, which is being built by Cosina and " Fuji GF670 " or " Voigtlander Bessa III " sold.
Locations Europe and Germany
As early as 1966, the Fuji Photo Film (Europe ) GmbH was established in Dusseldorf. Here is today Germany and the European headquarters of the Group. As part of the introduction of a holding structure of the Group in 2006, the previous " Fuji Photo Film (Europe ) GmbH" was in " Fujifilm Europe GmbH" renamed. 1982, the Group transferred the seat of his subsidiary Photex (later Euro Color) to Willich. In this large laboratory was until 2010 the photo-finishing for partner companies, for example, various discounters performed. The mid-1980s, the group settled with two companies in Kleve and employed there, above all with the production of magnetic and optical storage media at times over 500 employees. In several steps, of which, however, had to be cut about 400 jobs again until 2009, the production was all set.
Research
At the Center for Basic Research cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in photonics, nanotechnology, functional materials takes place. A research laboratory life science with a focus on Medical Therapy and Health is working in areas such as protein, DNA analysis, diagnostic systems. A research lab Organic Synthetic Chemistry works with an emphasis highly functional organic materials, organic electronics and medical imaging. Approximately 6-7 % will be invested by the worldwide turnover on research and development every year.
Environment
As a member of Environmental Health and Safety Committee Meeting Fujifilm designed jointly with other companies in the industry worldwide standardized data sheets for photo products. On these customers are with all environmental and safety-related data of the respective chemicals, materials or machinery. Fujifilm takes environmental responsibility for the entire product cycle, from development to disposal.
Competitors
- Hewlett-Packard, USA; information Technology
- manroland, Offenbach, Germany, printing machines
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Heidelberg, Germany; printing machines
- General Electric, United States, medical
- Philips, The Netherlands; Medical
- Siemens, Germany; Medical
- Kodak, USA; Photographic Systems, Graphic Systems
- Agfa, Mortsel, Belgium; Medical, Graphic Systems
- Cewe Color, Germany; Photo finishing
History
In 1934, Fujifilm began producing the first feature film materials in Japan. Gradually, new business opportunities have been opened up in the 1930s, these were initially the fields of photographic film and X-ray film. In 1944, the Fuji Photo Optical Company was founded (now regarded as belonging to the Fujinon Fujifilm Group). In the 1950s to produce the first computer in Japan and the world's first recordable videotape succeeded. In 1962, the Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.. established as a joint venture of the former Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and Rank Xerox. Since Fuji Xerox produces digital printing systems for Xerox. In the 1970s, the production of printing plates was taken up and completed the entry into the market for graphical systems.
From the 1940s until the mid 1980s, Fujifilm was represented by the trademark Fujica especially for SLR cameras on the market.
In the 1980s, Fujifilm digitized the first company to an X-ray image and therefore is considered the inventor of the digital radiography. 1982 founded in the Netherlands Fuji Tilburg as a production facility for the European market. In 1986, the recyclable disposable camera was introduced in 1988 and introduced the first digital camera with interchangeable storage medium.
In the 1990s, the production of CTP plates was recorded for the printing industry, introduced the world's first digital minilab, and the basis for the development of a film- based carrier material were placed, which today is used in LC displays. In the years from 2000 it was possible to introduce the world's fastest full-color digital publishing system as well as modules consisting of Imager, software and lens for use in mobile phone cameras. 2001, the shares of Fuji Xerox were increased to 75% and the company integrated in the Fujifilm Group.
In October 2006, the Group adopted the structure of a holding company, and it was a new name announced. Earlier Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.. was converted into a holding company under the name of Fujifilm Holdings Corporation. The Fujifilm Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, is the Fuji Film Corporation and for Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.. responsible.
Other business segments include materials for flat panel displays and display elements ( " display" ), an area which is classified as core business. A major role continues to play the so-called areas of " Medical Systems ", " Life Science " graphical systems, " Imaging," as well as document management. 2008, the acquisition of drugmaker Toyama was announced to expand Fujifilm to so-called "Health Care " companies and enter into the area therapy. In 2012 came the skincare line " Astalift " on the European market.
Corporate Logo
In October 2006, the Group has a new "Corporate Logo " is introduced. The change was related to the introduction of a holding company structure, which has also rearranged the strategic management of the Group. The new logo has been used since October 1, 2006 worldwide. The previous logo was used since 1980 and was thus for 26 years in use. History of the Logos, see web link.
Airship
From 1981 to 2006 was a blimp with Fujifilm logo from the WDL airship company with the code "D - LDFO " in use. In 2006, Fujifilm introduced the advertising airships a completely. Was justified the decision with a new direction for the company as well as any other use of advertising budgets.