Company History

October 15, 1962: SHINSEI SANGYO Inc. established in Meguro-ku, Tokyo
October 1964: Headquarters and factory moved to Kamoi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama (currently Hakusan, Midori-ku)
July 1965: Newly established the Metallurgy Department
April 1966: Spun off the Metallurgy Department and established SHINKU YAKIN Inc.
August 1966: Business collaboration widt AGNE Gijutsu Center
Started manufacturing and sales of Thermal Analysis System
1967: The Handy-arc Welder won top prize at a Yokohama exhibition
October 1968: Company name changed to SHINKU-RIKO Inc.
June 1971: Spun off the vacuum pump department and established SHINKU KIKO Inc. (Currently ULVAC KIKO Inc.)
July 1971: SHINKU KIKO Inc. becomes an exclusive thermal analysis equipment manufacturer
Developed and began sales of the TC-3000 Laser Flash Method Thermal Constant Measurement System
December 1971: SHINKU YAKIN Inc. moved to Sanbu-gun, Chiba
June 1972: Published SHINKU-RIKO Journal
1973: Established Tokyo Sales Office at Ginza 1-chome
Imported and began sales of Infrared Image Furnaces from Research Inc. in the USA
November 1974: Received orders for the TC-3000 Laser Flash Method Thermal Constant Measurement System and the DL-1500 Thermodilatometer from a metallurgy laboratory in the former Soviet Unionn
December 1974: Entered into a contract with Dynatec Corp. of the USA as the Japanese reseller of Steady Method Thermal Conductivity Measurement System
May 1976: Established the Osaka Sales Office in Shin-Osaka
August 1977: Exhibited a high-speed thermo gravimetric analyzer equipped with an Infrared Gold Image Furnace at the International Conference on Thermal Analysis
April 1980: Started managing the company in a two department organization with the AE Operation Department and the RH Operation Department
Established the Business Research Office in the AE Operation Department
July 1980: A mobile showroom was adopted by the RH Operation Department and began sales promotion activities using a traveling exhibition
March 1981: Developed an ultra-high temperature heating furnace
November 1982: Held personal exhibitions and presentations for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the company
May 1984: Started construction on new facilities (headquarters and factory)
March 1985: Completed construction of new facilities (headquarters and factory)
February 1986: Established a thermal engineering center in collaboration with the Chinese Wuhan Iron and Steel research institute
May 1987: Held the 1st thermal engineering seminar in Wuhan, China
November 1987: The PIT-1 AC Method Thermal Diffusivity Measurement System
won the 3rd Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Grand Prize
and the 12dt Invention Award Sasakawa Special Prize
March 1991: Delivered a Laser Flash Method Thermal Conductivity Measurement System to a facility related to nuclear power
November 1991: The LIX-1 Thermal Expansion Measurement System by Laser Interferometer won the 8th Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Grand Prize
June 1992: Developed a Robotic Thermal Dilatometer
1998: Entered into an agreement with the Nihon University (Koriyama) Technology Licensing Organization
and developed the first μIT-1 Micro-Indentation Tester
April 2000: Acquired ISO-9001 certification
July 2000: Started fee-based analysis services始
July 2001: Changed the company name from SHINKU-RIKO to ULVAC-RIKO
October 2003: Published “Latest Thermal Analyses” and “Infrared Heating Engineering Handbook” to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the company
October 2004: Developed the TCN-2ω 2-Omega Method Nano Thin Film Thermal Conductivity Meter
June 2006: Increased capitalization to 310 million yen
February 2007: Acquired ISO-14001 certification
May 2008: Developed and began sales of the STPM-1000 Scanning Thermal Probe Micro-image
March 2009: Commercialized and began sales of the RMP-1 High-speed Multiple Thermal Property Measurement System in collaboration with AIST
September 2009: “R&D of a small, portable power generation system dtat effectively utilizes low-temperature waste heat from factories” was adopted as a Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry regional innovation creation R&D program
February 2010: Received a technology transfer for the resonance shear measurement method to evaluate the characteristics of microspace liquids and the twin-path surface force measurement apparatus to analyze the surface force between opaque substrates developed by Professor Kazue Kurihara of Tohoku University and commercialized the RSM-1 Resonance Shear Measurement System
August 2010: Commercialized the AQ-PassR Aqua Passing Rate Measurement System in collaboration with ULVAC Inc.
May 2011: Developed a system dtat performs 3 to 12 kW small-scale power generation widt a low-temperature heat source of 150°C or lower
March 2012: Developed and commercialized the ZEM-5HT Seebeck Coefficient / Electric Resistance Measurement System
September 2012: The ECOR-3 Portable Small Power Generation System that utilizes unused factory waste heat won the 29th Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Award Regional Environment Prize
February 2013: The ECOR-3 Portable Small Power Generation System is certified as a “Kanagawa Standard Project”
October 2013: The ZEM-5HT Seebeck Coefficient / Electric Resistance Measurement System won the 30th Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Award Encouragement Prize
December 2014: Changed the company name from ULVAC-RIKO,Inc. to ADVANCE RIKO,Inc.
September 2015: Developed and commercialized the Gas Transmission Rate Measurement System GTms-1
November 2016: Developed and commercialized the Atmospheric Thermoelectric Module Evaluation System F-PEM
March 2019: Developed and commercialized the Polymeric Thermoelectric Sheet Evaluation System in Thickness Direction ZEM-d