Analytical Instruments

Shimadzu Corporation

Shimadzu Corporation is a Japanese precision instruments company founded in 1875 in Kyoto, Japan, that manufactures a comprehensive range of analytical instruments, medical equipment, and industrial equipment. In the analytical chemistry arena, Shimadzu is a leading supplier of HPLC and UHPLC systems through its Nexera and Prominence instrument families, which are widely used in pharmaceutical quality control, natural product analysis, metabolomics, and food safety testing. Their triple quadrupole LC-MS/MS systems (LCMS-8060 and LCMS-8050 series) deliver high sensitivity and throughput for quantitative bioanalysis and environmental analysis applications. Shimadzu's GC-MS instruments are industry workhorses for volatile organic compound analysis, forensic toxicology, flavor and fragrance profiling, and environmental monitoring. The GCMS-QP2020 NX with its smart database search capabilities streamlines unknown identification workflows. For atomic spectroscopy, Shimadzu's AA-7000 atomic absorption spectrometers and ICPMS-2030 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers address trace elemental analysis needs in environmental, food, and materials science research. Their UV-Vis spectrophotometers and FTIR spectrometers are ubiquitous teaching and research instruments. Shimadzu also produces materials testing machines (Autograph series), scanning electron microscopes, and X-ray fluorescence spectrometers used across materials science and engineering research. Their involvement in the Nobel Prize-winning development of electrospray ionization techniques (through Koichi Tanaka's work in MALDI-TOF) is a point of distinction in their mass spectrometry heritage.

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