Jasco 50 years

JASCO CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN THE ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT MARKETPLACE

This year JASCO celebrates its 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market. The company was founded in 1958 by a group of researchers at the Institute of Optics, at what is now Tsukuba University, who required an infrared spectrophotometer for their research. Since a commercially available instrument did not exist in Japan, they undertook the challenge of developing their own. Their combined efforts produced a reliable instrument with excellent optical performance. Other research groups began asking these researchers to replicate the instrument for use within their laboratories. With increased demand for more instruments, JASCO Corporation was founded.

Today, JASCO is located in over 57 countries, manufacturing both spectroscopy and chromatography instruments and continues to meet the needs of its customers with quality products and a pro-active service and support team. The company's line-up of products includes: UV-Vis/NIR, Dispersive Raman, FT-Raman, FT-IR, Polarimetry, Fluorescence, Circular Dichroism (CD), Dissolution, NSOM, HPLC, SFC/SFE, and Extreme Speed X-LC®.

Jasco Milestones

1958 : DS-101 is first JASCO's Prism Infrared Spectrophotometer
1962 : CD and ORD measurements introduced
1971 : UV-Vis spectrophotometers with digital readout
1972 : UVIDEC-100 world's first variable wavelength UV-Vis HPLC detector
1976 : Tri-Rotar world's first single-pump low-pressure mixing gradient system
1985 : Supercritical Fluid Chromatography introduced
1987 : LC-800 HPLC module series with individual microprocessor control
1997 : Spectra Manager is JASCO's unique Cross-Platform Software
2005 : Introduction of X-LC® Extreme Speed LC
2007 : Latest product enrichment with P-2000 Multi-option polarimeter and Preparative SFC