Global Affiliates

Headquarters, product development, engineering, manufacturing coordination, service, and global operations.

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Hummingbird Scientific’s U.S. headquarters in Lacey, Washington is the center of our product development, engineering, manufacturing coordination, customer collaboration, and global operations.

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The U.S. team works across mechanical design, electrical systems, microfabrication, holder architecture, in-situ experiment design, software control, calibration, assembly, testing, and customer support.

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This is where Hummingbird Scientific’s core in-situ microscopy platforms are developed and supported for researchers around the world.

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Primary focus areas

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• TEM specimen holders
• SEM and X-ray in-situ platforms
• in-situ heating, gas, liquid, biasing, cryo, tomography, and transfer systems
• Colibri Platform™ experiment records and metadata workflows
• Hummingbird Connect™ integration strategy
• engineering, calibration, testing, and service coordination
• customer and OEM collaboration

Precision manufacturing for ultra-small, complex scientific components

Hummingbird Precision Machine is an affiliated precision manufacturing company that supports the type of complex, small-scale, high-accuracy components required for advanced scientific instruments.

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In-situ microscopy hardware demands unusual manufacturing capability. Components must often be small, stable, non-magnetic, vacuum-compatible, electrically isolated, thermally controlled, chemically compatible, and mechanically precise.

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Hummingbird Precision Machine supports this work through advanced machining, prototyping, and manufacturing knowledge focused on demanding R&D applications.

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Primary focus areas

• ultra-small precision components
• non-magnetic materials
• titanium, copper alloys, ceramics, specialty metals, and complex materials
• prototype and R&D manufacturing
• low-volume precision production
• support for microscopy, medical, aerospace, defense, cryogenic, and specialty engineering applications

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This manufacturing capability is one of the reasons Hummingbird Scientific can develop advanced in-situ systems that combine mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluidic, vacuum, and software requirements in a single platform.

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Engineering support, software development, and regional capability

Hummingbird Scientific India supports Hummingbird’s growing engineering, software, documentation, product-development, and regional-support capacity. Modern in-situ microscopy systems require multidisciplinary development. Mechanical design, CAD, electronics, software, data management, testing, application support, and customer communication must work together.

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The India team helps extend Hummingbird’s ability to support product development and global customers while strengthening regional presence in one of the world’s most important scientific and engineering markets.

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Primary focus areas

• engineering and design support
• software and data-workflow support
• product documentation
• application and customer-support coordination
• regional communication
• product-development capacity
• support for Colibri Platform™ and open experiment-record workflows

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Hummingbird Scientific India helps expand the technical capacity behind Hummingbird’s global product platform.

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Japan and Asia-Pacific customer support, collaboration, and regional expertise

Nihon Hummingbird Scientific KK supports customers and collaborators in Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region. Japan is one of the world’s most important electron microscopy markets, with deep expertise in instrument manufacturing, precision engineering, materials science, semiconductors, microscopy research, and applied industrial R&D.

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Nihon Hummingbird Scientific KK helps connect Hummingbird technology with regional customers, partners, and application needs.

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Primary focus areas

• Japan and Asia-Pacific customer support
• regional sales and service coordination
• technical communication
• collaboration with research and industrial customers
• support for in-situ TEM, SEM, and X-ray microscopy products
• precision-engineering and manufacturing collaboration
• long-term regional relationship building

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This regional presence helps Hummingbird Scientific support Japanese and Asia-Pacific researchers with better communication, stronger collaboration, and closer technical engagement.

European regional presence and customer support development

Hummingbird Europe is being developed as a European regional presence to support customers, collaborators, and partners across Europe.

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Europe has a large and active community of researchers working in materials science, catalysis, energy storage, semiconductors, quantum materials, cryo-EM, synchrotron science, and advanced electron microscopy. A European presence helps Hummingbird Scientific support this community through better regional communication, closer collaboration, and improved access to product information, training, service coordination, and application support.

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Primary focus areas

• European customer communication
• regional support coordination
• collaboration with European research institutions
• support for universities, national laboratories, and industrial R&D groups
• training and application-support development
• regional coordination for Hummingbird Scientific products and platforms

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Hummingbird Europe reflects Hummingbird Scientific’s commitment to serving advanced microscopy customers in Europe with the same engineering-first approach used across the company.