From Shimadzu Europa GmbH Mar 26 2026 Shimadzu Corporation, which was celebrating its 150 th anniversary in 2025, has a long history of involvement with traditional Kyoto crafts dating back to its origins as a maker of Buddhist altar fittings. Based on the company’s founding spirit of “We will gladly undertake the manufacture of whatsoever you may request of us,” techniques such as lacquering and copper plate processing were applied to create physics and chemistry instruments during Shimadzu’s