Kratos Analytical has its headquarters in Manchester, UK and offices in the USA. Based in the world’s first industrial park, we have a long and proud history dating back to the British heavy electrical engineering company, Metropolitan-Vickers.

Modern-day Kratos Analytical prides itself on being highly innovative, responsive, and internationally focused. Its strengths lie in the quality of design, in the excellence of its products and in the commitment to partnerships with customers. Our market-leading technology is backed by the skills and experience of a responsive, forward-looking workforce.

Our staff : our greatest resource

Kratos Analytical employs over 200 staff at our headquarters and offices in Germany and New York. We invest heavily in Research and Development and have a dedicated team of physicists, mechanical and electrical engineers who are experts in their respective fields contributing to developing the next generation of photoelectron spectrometers and MALDI-ToF instruments.

Sales and Applications support is based in Manchester. Our philosophy is to sell the spectrometers through the results that they are capable of generating. Our Applications Specialists are all educated to doctorate level and have many years of experience of XPS or MALDI across all classes of materials. We make oral contributions at many of the surface or MALDI related international meetings, presenting novel research results generated in our Manchester applications lab. and through collaborations with leading academic and industrial groups.

Quality is the responsibility of everyone at Kratos Analytical. It is the focus of company objectives and through this focus comes the excellence and performance expected of every Kratos Analytical product. Focus on quality is the single most important reason for the market leading performance associated with all Kratos technology. Close relationships with subcontractors and technology partners in the supply chain.

Shimadzu Corporation

Kratos Analytical Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Shimadzu Corporation of Kyoto, Japan. Shimadzu Corporation is a multi-billion dollar supplier of a wide range of scientific and industrial products to world markets. Globally the Shimadzu corporation employs 7000 staff, it has a growing number of manufacturing facilities worldwide including USA, The People’s Republic of China, Australia, the Philippines and the UK with sales and distribution outlets in almost all countries in the world.

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