Tescan Joins Shimadzu Group to Accelerate Innovation and Deliver Greater Value to Customers 
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Accelerating the Art of Discovery

Tescan builds imaging and analysis tools that help scientists push the boundaries of what’s possible. From powerful electron microscopes to advanced micro-CT and FIB solutions, we design systems that make complex research clearer, faster,
and more intuitive.

Who We Are

Tescan is more than an instrument manufacturer. We’re a global team of engineers, scientists, designers, and application experts - building advanced imaging instruments and the solutions around them.

As a new part of Shimadzu Corporation, we’re proud to bring complementary strengths in advanced imaging and analytical technologies to support progress in semiconductor, materials science, life science, and industrial applications. This combination enables our customers to build more integrated laboratory environments where imaging and analytical measurement are connected in a single workflow, helping them gain deeper insights even faster.

For over 35 years, we’ve helped scientists and engineers better understand the structure of materials and processes that shape our world, enabling faster discoveries, more accurate failure analysis, and higher productivity across industries.

Today, we continue to advance this impact through a broad portfolio of technologies, including SEM, micro-CT, laser-based solutions, and 4D-STEM innovations.

Our expertise aligns with Shimadzu Corporation’s long-standing strengths in analytical and measuring technologies, further accelerating the art of discovery. 

We design with real workflows in mind, from materials science and geosciences to life sciences and semiconductors, ensuring every system is intuitive, application-ready, and fully supported throughout its lifecycle.

By using Shimadzu’s established global infrastructure and broad regional coverage, we’ve significantly strengthened our service capacity, responsiveness, and long-term support for our customers worldwide.

Our Aspiration

Our aspiration is to transform complex technologies into intuitive, human-centric solutions. By empowering our customers and partners with instruments, software, and services fit for the future, Tescan and Shimadzu aim to equip the world with what it needs to move faster, think deeper, and accelerate collective discovery.

Our Approach

We aim to remove the complexity and friction between question and discovery. We’re working towards a world where barriers no longer slow scientific progress, so researchers can spend less time navigating systems and more time moving science forward.

Our Drivers

We value collaboration, forward thinking, and outcomes that truly make a difference, from everyday progress to major discoveries. The partnership between Tescan and Shimadzu reflects that belief. We’re not afraid to challenge conventions or rethink what’s possible, because progress demands it. What matters most to us is user experience. And we prioritize it in every solution, designing tools that feel intuitive, human, and built for the way scientists work.

Born in the Czech Republic,

Built for the World

Headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic - where we began in 1991 - Tescan now supports researchers in over 80 countries through a network of subsidiaries, offices, and partners. We’re proud to stay close to our roots while operating globally, wherever science needs us.

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Partnerships That Power Discovery

To move research forward

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Our story

Tescan began in Brno, Czech Republic - a global hub for electron optics - with a clear goal: to make high-performance imaging more accessible to researchers everywhere. Today, we deliver more than instruments. We design complete solutions, systems, workflows, and supportservices that fit how scientists actually work. While the specs are important, we believe that user experience is key to enabling discovery, anddiscovery and turning partnership into progress.
1991

From Tesla to Tescan

Tescan was born in Brno, Czech Republic, where a legacy of electron optics was already part of the city’s DNA. Founded by former engineers from the Tesla factories (one of the world’s first leading electron microscope hubs), the mission was simple but ambitious. Build world-class imaging systems that were easier to use and more accessible to the researchers who needed them most. 

Early innovations like PROXIMA (our integrated optical navigation system) and the VEGA variable pressure SEM set a tone we have kept ever since - practical, intuitive, and driven by real research needs. 
At the same time, Orsay Physics was doing something similar in France. Since 1989, they had been pushing the boundaries of focused ion beam (FIB) technology, developing custom solutions for microelectronics and materials science. Like Tescan, they believed tools should fit the people using them and they knew real innovation happens at the intersection of science and usability.

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2009

The gate to east

Tescan is stepping into the Chinese market and establishing Tescan China.

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