JEOL Ltd. (Yoshiyasu Harada, President) and JEOL Datum, Ltd. (Yasunobu Suenaga, President) established a new company, Datum Instruments, dedicated to servicing JEOL’s mass market products (environmental equipment/metrology and inspection equipment).
Objective
JEOL’s mid term management plan, Action 60, announced in 2007 (for 2007 to 2009), proposed to “strengthen sales and service of mass market products” as one of the key areas of focus. The new company, dedicated to servicing such products as desktop mass spectrometers (QMS), fluorescent X-ray analyzers, portable gas chromatography, and mobile scanning electron microscopes, is intended to enhance customer satisfaction through highly responsive service and expand business opportunities through customer support.
Company profile
| Corporate name: |
Datum Instruments Inc. |
Date of
establishment: |
April 1, 2008 |
| Address: |
4F, Daikokuya Bldg., 2-9-8 Akibono-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo |
| Capital: |
20 million yen |
| Shareholders: |
JEOL Datum, Ltd. (controlling share: 70%)
Kyowa Ltd. in Akiruno City, Tokyo (20%)
(Hirohito Suzuki, President)
JEOL Ltd. (10%) |
| President: |
Kiyoshi Miyajima |
| Employees: |
10 |
| Business: |
Servicing mass market products (environmental equipment, metrology and inspection equipment) |
| Territory: |
Tokyo and Yokohama area at the time of inception |
Products to
service: |
Approximately 900 units |
Kyowa Ltd.
Kyowa Ltd., highly valued as a service contractor for the JEOL group and for their consistent business results, was selected as a partner. Kyowa is neither partially nor fully owned by JEOL.