Hikaru Shimura

Rigaku Corp. designs and manufactures scientific instruments. Its products include X-ray diffraction instruments, X-ray fluorescence , small angle X-ray scattering , protein crystallography, handheld laser induced breakdown spectrometers, process elemental analyzers, thermal analysis , non-destructive testing, small molecule crystallography, stress analyzers, X-ray imaging, evolved gas analysis, and conductor metrology. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Part of Rigaku Corp., Rigaku Americas Corp. is a manufacturer of x-ray analysis, thermal analysis, and non-destructive testing instruments. The private company is based in Spring, TX. The company provides a number of unique solutions to help manufacturers comply with RoHS/WEEE by providing rapid non-destructive elemental analysis. Today, with hundreds of major innovations to their credit, the Rigaku group of companies are world leaders in the fields of general x-ray diffraction, thin film analysis, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, small angle x-ray scattering, protein and small molecule x-ray crystallography, Raman spectroscopy, x-ray optics, semiconductor metrology, x-ray sources, computed tomography, nondestructive testing, and thermal analysis. The company is the only provider of a complete line of benchtop x-ray analytical products, providing affordable and easy-to-use solutions for small molecule single crystal diffraction, general-purpose x-ray diffraction (XRD), and x-ray fluorescence (XRF). Founded in 1951, the company has been at the forefront of analytical and industrial instrumentation technology.