SPring-8 contributes to the Development ofIndustries in addition to Academic Research.

SPring-8 was constructed at a great cost of
about 110 billion yen in 1997 and has an annual
maintenance cost of about 8.5 billion yen. Large
facilities such as this have a major responsibility tomaximize the use of their technologies, not only at
the frontier of scientific research, but also forindustry.
To accelerate the industrial application ofSPring-8, JASRI introduced a coordinator system in
FY2000, started operating public beamlines(currently three beamlines) specialized forindustrial application in FY2001, and establishedthe Industrial Application Division in FY2005, thus
continuing technological development with theconvenience of users. Moreover, trial uses (trial,FY2002; systemized in FY2003–2005) and theProgram for Strategic Use of Advanced Large-scale
Research Facilities (FY2005–2006) were implemented.
In addition, Feasibility Study Proposals for Industrial
Application, which provide potential users ofSPring-8 with the all-year-round opportunity to use
SPring-8 through a simple application process, haverecently been established.
The industrial applications of SPring-8 have
expanded yearly as shown in the figures owing tothe improvement of the facility and its systems,
and the implementation of programs. Not only has
the number of users increased, but we have also
seen users from new kinds of industry during thisperiod.

Number of Conducted Proposals at Public BLs by Affiliation
1800

25.0%

1600
20.0%

1400
1200

15.0%

1000
800

10.0%

600
400

5.0%

2000SPring-8 Measurement Service provides
measurements using SPring-8 performed by staffof the Industrial Application Division of JASRI
instead of users. Users can send samples toSPring-8 as well as visit SPring-8 and observemeasurements. The samples are measured andwill be returned to the users in a month.

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Industry

OthersRate of Industry

The Measurement Service aims to increase theconvenience of SPring-8 for research institutions
and companies that have difficulty in securingin-house technical staff and to solve urgent
requirements. The Service is regarded as one of
the Proprietary Time-Designated Proposals interms of service cost. The cost to users is the sumof the beamtime fee (JPY 180,000 per 2 h), thefixed fee for consumable materials (JPY 2,680 per2 h), and the variable fee for materials actuallyused during measurements.

If you are interested in or wish to know more
about the industrial applications of SPring-8,
please visit our website (http://www.spring8.or.jp),
where you can find many examples of industrial
applications. If you wish to use SPring-8 or find out
whether the measurements you require arepossible, please contact our coordinators in theIndustrial Application Division (Phone: +81(0)791-58-0924, E-mail: support@spring8.or.jp).
They will help you use our facility if you are
unfamiliar with the use of synchrotron radiation.
We hope that you will make active use of ourfacilities.
We continue to promote industrial
applications of SPring-8 capabilities, which would
be available by implementing the top-notchmeasurement technologies.

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