JEOL Ltd.

JEOL Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and markets scientific and metrology instruments, semiconductor and industrial equipment, and medical equipment in Japan, the United States, China, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Scientific and Metrology Instruments, Industrial Equipment, and Medical Equipment. The company offers transmission and scanning electron microscopes, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometers, x-ray fluorescence spectrometers, electron diffractometers, ion beam application equipment, micro area and surface analysis instruments, electron beam lithography systems, electron microscopes for semiconductors, and clinical chemistry analyzers. It also provides industrial equipment such as thin film formation equipment, material processing equipment, and an electron beam metal AM machine, along with processing, maintenance, and services for related products and parts, and procurement and sale of peripherals. It serves industries including electrical/electronic components, batteries, energy, automobiles, steel, metal, chemistry, plastic/polymer, glass/ceramic, laboratory/pathology, biology, medicine/drug discovery, food/plant, environment, and defense/aerospace. Formerly known as Japan Electron Optics Laboratory Co., Ltd., it changed its name to JEOL Ltd. in 1961. The company was incorporated in 1949 and is headquartered in Akishima, Japan.