From its inception in 1929, CAMECA has been renowned for its precision mechanics, optics and electronics. The company started in France as a manufacturer of movie theater projectors, before rapidly evolving into a provider of scientific instrumentation for the international research community and in-fab / near-fab metrology solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. 

Since pioneering Electron Probe MicroAnalysis (EPMA) in the 1950's and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) in the 1960's, CAMECA has remained the undisputed world leader in these techniques while achieving numerous breakthrough innovations in complementary techniques such as Low energy Electron induced X-ray Emission Spectrometry (LEXES), and Atom Probe Tomography (APT). In 2016, NU Instruments was integrated into CAMECA, broadening our product offering and technical capabilities in isotopic and elemental mass spectrometry through innovative Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GD-MS)  and Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) product lines. 

Today, CAMECA employs over 300 employees around the world, with locations in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, UK and USA and a wide network of agents, ensuring the best level of support to all users. Our mission is to focus on instrumental development to offer our customers the highest analytical performance in their specialized characterization fields. 

Operating under ISO 9001 certification, CAMECA controls not only the technology, but all aspects in the designing, manufacturing, installing and servicing of its products.  Located at our headquarters near Paris, France, as well as at our Atom Probe Technology Center in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and in Wrexham, UK for the ICP-MS, GD-MD and TIMS product lines, our plants are state of the art facilities, using the best practices for clean room production, computer networking, electron and ion optics simulation and advanced CAD.

CAMECA endeavors to maintain its position as a world premier supplier of high-end elemental and isotopic microanalysis instrumentation. 

Pioneers and technology leader in a broad set of microanalytical techniques, we will continue our leadership by delivering customer-oriented, high performance products and solutions. 

We are committed to broadening our product offering and expanding the range of applications each instrument and technique can address. We will accomplish this through sustained, long-term R&D investments and close collaborations with leading academic research units.

Today, our products serve a broad range of laboratory and process control applications in end markets that include semiconductor, nano-science, biology, environment, geology, nuclear and material sciences. Customer satisfaction will remain our main focus, and will be achieved through optimized quality management and world-class service and support.