Organization

Fujifilm has two types of laboratories: corporate laboratories and divisional laboratories. The corporate laboratories, comprising the Frontier Core-Technology Laboratories, the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratories and the Advanced Marking Research Laboratories, are engaged in long-term research into cutting-edge technologies that will play a role in the future of the Fujifilm Group and accumulating technology bases that are common to the whole Company. In contrast, the divisional laboratories are developing products that are directly linked to respective business divisions based on short- and medium-term objectives.

In April 2006, we established the FUJIFILM Advanced Research Laboratories, with the aim of promoting more leading-edge research on a Company-wide basis and the development of core technologies that will become the foundation for new businesses and products. As a result, the three corporate laboratories will fuse each other's technologies with the aim of establishing overwhelmingly distinctive technologies, especially in the areas of highly functional materials, devices and systems.