Shimadzu is a leading manufacturer of analytical instruments. Our products and services are used by customers worldwide to develop a wide range of new products, protect and preserve the environment, and improve people's health and standard of living.
Shaping the future of society in an ecological and economical way
Shimadzu offers customized end-user applications using state-of-the-art instrumental analysis. We tailor high-tech laboratory systems to the individual requirements of our customers in science and industry: from consumer, patient and environmental protection to product safety. Together, we are enabling a sustainable ecological and economic future.
Innovative knowledge for all customers on site
Our quality standards are based on the perfection of our innovative and leading analytical instruments and software. We combine the expertise we have built up over our 150-year history with our European and global structures to make innovative knowledge applicable through training opportunities and academic networking – for all our customers on site. We support them reliably and responsibly throughout the entire life cycle of our devices.
Direct, personal communication and short distances to our customers
Shimadzu stands for customer-oriented proximity, reliability, quick responses and expertise. The sales, service and technical staff at our eleven subsidiaries and branches throughout Europe ensure direct, personal and fast communication with short distances for our customers.
Global experience for individual collaboration
Shimadzu has 79 branches worldwide and employs over 14,000 people in Asia, Europe, Africa and America. We also bring this international experience to bear in our daily work with our customers. With numerous innovations and world firsts, we are constantly working to push the boundaries of technology and offer the market ever better laboratory systems so that we can identify and tackle environmental and social challenges together with our customers.
Product portfolio and markets
Our product range includes systems for chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy and total organic carbon (TOC) analysis. The Biotechnology Division focuses on the growth markets of life sciences and high-throughput screening. Balances, software and materials testing systems round off the product range. In the approximately 1,500 square metre laboratory world at the European headquarters in Duisburg, our customers can get to know the entire Shimadzu product range on test areas.
Shimadzu covers the entire spectrum of instrumental analysis:
- Gas chromatography (GC)
- Liquid chromatography (LC, HPLC, UHPLC)
- Mass spectrometry (LCMS, GCMS, MALDI-TOF MS, UFMS)
- Spectroscopy (UV/VIS, FTIR, AAS, ICP)
- Life science
- Total organic carbon (TOC)
- Materials testing technology
- Balances
- Software
- Service & support
The following markets benefit from our solutions:
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Chemical industry
- Food industry
- Cannabis
- Environmental analysis
- Clinical market
- Cosmetics
- Life sciences
- Automotive industry
- Electronics and electrical engineering
Shimadzu as a member of the SPECTARIS industry association
As one of over 400 members, Shimadzu belongs to a large community of innovative high-tech companies in Germany.
Further information about our products, services and target markets can be found here: https://www.shimadzu.eu/analytics.html