Hamamatsu Photonics

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (浜松ホトニクス株式会社, Hamamatsu Hotonikusu Kabushiki-Kaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of optical sensors (including photomultiplier tubes), electric light sources, and other optical devices and their applied instruments for scientific, technical and medical use.

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Native name
浜松ホトニクス株式会社
Company typePublic KK
Traded as
TYO: 6965
IndustryElectronics
Founded(September 29, 1953 (1953-09-29))
FounderHeihachiro Horiuchi
Headquarters325-6, Sunayama-cho, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, 430-8587, Japan
Key people
Teruo Hiruma
(Chairman of the board)
Akira Hiruma
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue JPY 120.6 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 1.01 billion) (FY 2014)
Net income
JPY 16.5 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 138.3 million) (FY 2014)
Number of employees
4,420 (consolidated, as of December 19, 2014)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references

The company was founded in 1953 by Heihachiro Horiuchi, a former student of Kenjiro Takayanagi, who is known as "the father of Japanese television".

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