Company Description
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) is the North American subsidiary of Shimadzu Corp., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, a leading provider of analytical measurement and testing instrumentation for a broad range of applications. Shimadzu’s extensive portfolio of innovative high-quality system platforms provides customers with unparalleled solutions-based offerings and we encourage results-driven collaborations that meet growing customer demands. With a vast installed base and preferred vendor status at many institutions, SSI’s instruments are used for quality control and research across the globe by customers who can count on the long-term stability, experience, and support only Shimadzu offers.
Company Background
Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, SSI was established in 1975 as a distribution center providing analytical solutions to laboratories in the Americas. Today, SSI’s focus is expanded greatly beyond distribution. Steady and controlled growth has seen the opening of ten regional offices across the United States; Shimadzu U.S.A. Manufacturing, which supplies UV-Vis, HPLC, GCMS, and LCMS products to the U.S. market; and, most recently, state-of-the-art Solution Center and Innovation Center laboratories.
Markets Served
With a diverse portfolio of instruments, Shimadzu’s products are used in a wide range of industries, academia, and government. These include pharmaceuticals, biopharma, life sciences, clinical, environmental, chemicals, forensics, electronics, automotive, food and beverages, and material sciences.
Products, Services, And Capabilities
Shimadzu’s instruments are used throughout the pharmaceutical pipeline, from life science research and drug discovery and development to manufacturing and QA/QC. Instruments include chromatographs (HPLC, UHPLC, SFC, GC), mass spectrometers (LC-MS/MS, Q-TOF LC-MS, GC-MS/MS, MALDI-TOF), spectrophotometers (UV-Vis, FTIR), spectrofluorometers, atomic spectrometers (AA, ICP-MS), X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometers, thermal & particle size analyzers, Total Organic Carbon analyzers, informatics (Workstation, DB, CS) systems, balances, and materials testers.
In addition to a wide array of instruments, Shimadzu actively pursues collaborative research projects with customers and partners. Its new solution center and innovation center enable SSI to more quickly develop new software applications and focus-based solutions to better serve growing customer demands.
Shimadzu also offers a Global Preferred Accounts Program. This program is designed to ensure that our people, technologies and global capabilities enable customers to achieve breakthrough results and operational efficiency in pharmaceutical research and manufacturing.