Shimadzu Corp.

Shimadzu (Japanese株式会社 岛 津 制作 所, Kabushiki - gaisha Shimazu Seisakusho, Eng. Shimadzu Corporation) is a Japanese precision instruments manufacturer based in Kyoto. Main areas of business are laboratory technology and medical devices.

The Shimadzu Germany GmbH is a subsidiary of Shimadzu Europa GmbH, headquartered in Duisburg.

History

Shimadzu 1875 by Genzo Shimadzu. founded. His son Genzo Shimadzu. developed the first X-ray machine in Japan one year after the discovery of X - rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Since 1968, Shimadzu sells equipment for chemical analysis and medical diagnostics in Germany. Koichi Tanaka, a researcher of the company was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Products

Its product line includes systems for chromatography ( HPLC ( high performance liquid chromatography ), GC ( gas chromatography), mass spectrometry (LC -MS, GC -MS) ), for spectroscopy, as UV / VIS spectroscopy, FTIR, atomic spectroscopy (AAS and ICP ) and sum parameters (TOC) and preparative and analytical LC -MS and MALDI- TOF instruments.