JEOL Ltd. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of scientific and measuring instruments, semiconductor and industrial equipment, and medical equipment in Japan, the United States, China, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Scientific and Measuring Instruments, Industrial Equipment, and Medical Equipment. It provides transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope, specimen preparation equipment, multibeam system, electron probe microanalyzer, auger microprobe, photoelectron spectrometer, x-ray fluorescence spectrometer, electron diffractometer, magnetic resonance spectrometer general; nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, probes, magnets, peripherals, and software; electron spin resonance spectrometer and peripherals; quantitative NMR; mass spectrometer general; and gas chromatograph mass spectrometers, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, LC-MS, and MS software products. The company also offers industrial equipment, including electron beam lithography equipment and electron beam metal 3D printers. In addition, it engages in the processing, maintenance, and services of related products and parts, as well as procurement and sale of peripherals. It serves electrical/electronic components, batteries, energy, automobiles, steel, metal, chemistry, plastic/polymer, glass/ceramic, laboratory/pathology, biology, medicine/drug discovery, food/plant, environment, defense/aerospace, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Japan Electron Optics Laboratory Co., Ltd. and changed its name to JEOL Ltd. in 1961. JEOL Ltd. was incorporated in 1949 and is headquartered in Akishima, Japan.
