Since its inception, Rigaku has been at the forefront of analytical and industrial instrumentation technology. Today, with hundreds of major innovations to their credit, the Rigaku Group of Companies are world leaders in the fields of general X-ray diffraction, thin film analysis, X-ray spectrometry, SAXS, protein and small molecule X-ray crystallography, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray optics, semiconductor metrology, automation, X-ray sources, computed tomography, nondestructive testing and thermal analysis. This year we are proudly celebrating the 60th anniversary of our founding, which occurred in December of 1951.