Rigaku is a leading producer of crystallographic hardware, software and contract research. Rigaku Americas Corporation acts as a distributor and manufacturer for all of Rigaku's product lines (including single crystal and general X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence and semiconductor metrology) throughout the world. With over 1100 employees worldwide, Rigaku has the technical strength and resources to continue providing innovative and reliable products for the crystallographic community far into the future. Rigaku is the world's largest analytical X-ray instrument producer.

Rigaku Americas Corporation designs and manufactures many peripherals to enhance the performance of Rigaku generators, detectors and goniometers. Examples include X-ray optics systems, crystal mounting robots, cryogenic devices, and single and multiple taper CCD detectors. In addition, Rigaku has a strong development program for data acquisition, processing, structure solution software and core-tool software. Finally, Rigaku offers contract research services for small and macromolecular crystallography.

Headquartered in The Woodlands, TX USA, Rigaku is housed in a 40,000 sq. ft. custom-designed building. This facility contains a large and fully equipped application laboratory, customer service facility, engineering and manufacturing facility as well as housing sales, marketing, financial and crystallographic R&D groups. European operations are managed from the Rigaku Europe branch office located outside of London, while Rigaku's core-tool software development group is located in Provo, Utah. Rigaku's X-ray and neutron optics division is located in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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