Full-Scale Entry into the Global Life Sciences Business Rigaku Corporation (Headquarters: Akishima-shi, Tokyo; President: Toshiyuki Ikeda; “Rigaku”), a leading manufacturer of X-ray analysis equipment, has acquired all issued shares of MILabs B.V. (Headquarters: Houten, The Netherlands; CEO and CSO: Dr. Frederik Beekman; “MILabs”) on August 2, 2021, as part of their full-scale effort to enter... Read more
Applied Rigaku Technologies announces NEX CG II, an indirect excitation EDXRF analyzer for enhanced elemental analysis for industrial quality control to advanced research applications AUSTIN, Texas, July 6, 2021 – Applied Rigaku Technologies, Inc., a division of Rigaku Corporation, introduces NEX CG II, a powerful second-generation benchtop energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer. NEX CG II is... Read more
By partnering with Carlyle, Rigaku seeks fulfilling its global growth ambitions and going for an IPO in the coming years Tokyo, Japan, January 6, 2021 – Rigaku Corporation (“Rigaku”), Japan’s leading manufacturer of X-ray analysis, measurement and testing instruments, announces today that global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Mr. Hikaru Shimura, President and CEO... Read more
✓ Rigaku and JEOL will unify their core technologies—Rigaku’s high-speed, high-sensitivity photon-counting detector (HPC) and state-of-the-art single crystal software, and JEOL’s transmission electron microscope—to create an integrated MicroED platform providing one-step structure solutions with electron crystallography. ✓ The resulting MicroED platform, based on the synergistic collaboration of both companies, will provide a solution for the... Read more
Rigaku is in attendance at Pittcon 2020 in Chicago, IL – exhibiting its X-ray and handheld analytical instrumentation at booth 4725 March 2, 2020– Chicago, IL. Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce its attendance at the 71st annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon 2020), being held March 1 – 5, at McCormick Place... Read more
Rigaku and DetectaChem chemical identification technologies are integrated into a single handheld solution to deliver advanced automated trace and bulk explosive detection and chemical analysis capabilities. Wilmington, MA / Stafford, TX (July 16, 2019) – Rigaku Analytical Devices, Inc. a leader in handheld and portable Raman analyzers, together with DetectaChem, Inc., with its innovative advanced automated... Read more
July 15th, 2019, Tokyo Japan – X-ray analytical instrument manufacturer Rigaku Corporation and DYG Holdings LTD today announced the closing of the acquisition process by Rigaku, a privately held scientific instrumentation company headquartered in Tokyo, as of July 1st 2019, to acquire XwinSys Technology Development Ltd, headquartered in Migdal Haemek, Israel. Hikaru Shimura, Rigaku’s President and... Read more
The Rigaku ResQ CQL analyzer sets the new standard for 1064 nm handheld Raman in the safety and security sector. Baltimore, MD – June 13, 2019 – Rigaku Analytical Devices, the market leader in handheld 1064 nm Raman technology, will demonstrate its next generation 1064 nm handheld Raman analyzer – the Rigaku ResQ CQL – this... Read more
Rigaku and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, are collaborating to develop commercially available lab solutions employing highly innovative crystalline sponge technology Rigaku will continue to improve its X-ray systems to accommodate the consumables of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to provide turn-key solutions for customers Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will develop lab consumables to determine the absolute... Read more
06 JUN 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Rigaku are collaborating to develop commercially available lab solutions employing highly innovative crystalline sponge technology Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will develop lab consumables to determine the absolute chemical structure of substances on sub-microgram scale Rigaku will continue to improve its X-ray systems to accommodate the lab... Read more