JEOL Opens New Office in Brasil

JEOL USA (Peabody, Mass.) and its parent company JEOL Ltd. (Akishima, Japan) have opened an office in Sao Paulo, Brasil to support its growing installed base there, and have relocated the personnel to a new facility this month.

JEOL has enjoyed a 40-year history in Brasil, with the past 30 being through its agent, Fugiwara Enterprises I.C., Ltda.

As the number of JEOL customers has continued to grow in the region, the company decided to provide direct support through JEOL service engineers, administrative, and sales personnel.

“We are pleased to be able to provide this focused and complete support to our customer base,” said Mr. Hisao Wada, Vice President, JEOL USA and President, JEOL BRASIL Ltda.

Mr. Wada continued, “We have a long history of working with SEM, TEM, and EPMA users in Brasil and enjoy our relationship with fast-growing industry and academia here.”

JEOL USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JEOL, Ltd., was founded in 1962 in Massachusetts. The U.S. office is also headquarters to JEOL de Mexico, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2011, and JEOL Canada, which opened in 1994.

In September, JEOL USA entered an agreement with Arquimed, its exclusive agent in Chile.