{"id":5889,"date":"2019-01-11T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=5889"},"modified":"2024-12-25T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:44:13","slug":"company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/company\/company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October 15, 1962<\/dt>\n
SHINSEI SANGYO Inc. established in Meguro-ku, Tokyo<\/dd>\n
October 1964<\/dt>\n
Headquarters and factory moved to Kamoi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama (currently Hakusan, Midori-ku)<\/dd>\n
July 1965<\/dt>\n
Newly established the Metallurgy Department<\/dd>\n
April 1966<\/dt>\n
Spun off the Metallurgy Department and established SHINKU YAKIN Inc.<\/dd>\n
August 1966<\/dt>\n
Business collaboration widt AGNE Gijutsu Center
Started manufacturing and sales of Thermal Analysis System<\/dd>\n
1967<\/dt>\n
The Handy-arc Welder won top prize at a Yokohama exhibition<\/dd>\n
October 1968<\/dt>\n
Company name changed to SHINKU-RIKO Inc.<\/dd>\n
June 1971<\/dt>\n
Spun off the vacuum pump department and established SHINKU KIKO Inc. (Currently ULVAC KIKO Inc.)<\/dd>\n
July 1971<\/dt>\n
SHINKU KIKO Inc. becomes an exclusive thermal analysis equipment manufacturer
\nDeveloped and began sales of the TC-3000 Laser Flash Method Thermal Constant Measurement System<\/dd>\n
December 1971<\/dt>\n
SHINKU YAKIN Inc. moved to Sanbu-gun, Chiba<\/dd>\n
June 1972<\/dt>\n
Published SHINKU-RIKO Journal<\/dd>\n
1973<\/dt>\n
Established Tokyo Sales Office at Ginza 1-chome
Imported and began sales of Infrared Image Furnaces from Research Inc. in the USA<\/dd>\n
November 1974<\/dt>\n
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<\/dd>\n
December 1974<\/dt>\n
Entered into a contract with Dynatec Corp. of the USA as the Japanese reseller of Steady Method Thermal Conductivity Measurement System<\/dd>\n
May 1976<\/dt>\n
Established the Osaka Sales Office in Shin-Osaka<\/dd>\n
August 1977<\/dt>\n
Exhibited a high-speed thermo gravimetric analyzer equipped with an Infrared Gold Image Furnace at the International Conference on Thermal Analysis<\/dd>\n
April 1980<\/dt>\n
Started managing the company in a two department organization with the AE Operation Department and the RH Operation Department
\nEstablished the Business Research Office in the AE Operation Department<\/dd>\n
July 1980<\/dt>\n
A mobile showroom was adopted by the RH Operation Department and began sales promotion activities using a traveling exhibition<\/dd>\n
March 1981<\/dt>\n
Developed an ultra-high temperature heating furnace<\/dd>\n
November 1982<\/dt>\n
Held personal exhibitions and presentations for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the company<\/dd>\n
May 1984<\/dt>\n
Started construction on new facilities (headquarters and factory)<\/dd>\n
March 1985<\/dt>\n
Completed construction of new facilities (headquarters and factory)<\/dd>\n
February 1986<\/dt>\n
Established a thermal engineering center in collaboration with the Chinese Wuhan Iron and Steel research institute<\/dd>\n
May 1987<\/dt>\n
Held the 1st thermal engineering seminar in Wuhan, China<\/dd>\n
November 1987<\/dt>\n
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<\/dd>\n
March 1991<\/dt>\n
Delivered a Laser Flash Method Thermal Conductivity Measurement System to a facility related to nuclear power<\/dd>\n
November 1991<\/dt>\n
The LIX-1 Thermal Expansion Measurement System by Laser Interferometer won the 8th Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Grand Prize<\/dd>\n
June 1992<\/dt>\n
Developed a Robotic Thermal Dilatometer<\/dd>\n
1998<\/dt>\n
Entered into an agreement with the Nihon University (Koriyama) Technology Licensing Organization
and developed the first \u03bcIT-1 Micro-Indentation Tester<\/dd>\n
April 2000<\/dt>\n
Acquired ISO-9001 certification<\/dd>\n
July 2000<\/dt>\n
Started fee-based analysis services\u59cb<\/dd>\n
July 2001<\/dt>\n
Changed the company name from SHINKU-RIKO to ULVAC-RIKO<\/dd>\n
October 2003<\/dt>\n
Published \u201cLatest Thermal Analyses\u201d and \u201cInfrared Heating Engineering Handbook\u201d to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the company<\/dd>\n
October 2004<\/dt>\n
Developed the TCN-2\u03c9 2-Omega Method Nano Thin Film Thermal Conductivity Meter<\/dd>\n
June 2006<\/dt>\n
Increased capitalization to 310 million yen<\/dd>\n
February 2007<\/dt>\n
Acquired ISO-14001 certification<\/dd>\n
May 2008<\/dt>\n
Developed and began sales of the STPM-1000 Scanning Thermal Probe Micro-image<\/dd>\n
March 2009<\/dt>\n
Commercialized and began sales of the RMP-1 High-speed Multiple Thermal Property Measurement System in collaboration with AIST<\/dd>\n
September 2009<\/dt>\n
“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<\/dd>\n
February 2010<\/dt>\n
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<\/dd>\n
August 2010<\/dt>\n
Commercialized the AQ-PassR Aqua Passing Rate Measurement System in collaboration with ULVAC Inc.<\/dd>\n
May 2011<\/dt>\n
Developed a system dtat performs 3 to 12 kW small-scale power generation widt a low-temperature heat source of 150\u00b0C or lower<\/dd>\n
March 2012<\/dt>\n
Developed and commercialized the ZEM-5HT Seebeck Coefficient \/ Electric Resistance Measurement System<\/dd>\n
September 2012<\/dt>\n
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<\/dd>\n
February 2013<\/dt>\n
The ECOR-3 Portable Small Power Generation System is certified as a \u201cKanagawa Standard Project\u201d<\/dd>\n
October 2013<\/dt>\n
The ZEM-5HT Seebeck Coefficient \/ Electric Resistance Measurement System won the 30th Kanagawa Industrial Technology Development Award Encouragement Prize<\/dd>\n
December 2014<\/dt>\n
Changed the company name from ULVAC-RIKO,Inc. to ADVANCE RIKO,Inc.<\/dd>\n
September 2015<\/dt>\n
Developed and commercialized the Gas Transmission Rate Measurement System GTms-1<\/dd>\n
November 2016<\/dt>\n
Developed and commercialized the Atmospheric Thermoelectric Module Evaluation System F-PEM<\/dd>\n
March 2019<\/dt>\n
Developed and commercialized the Polymeric Thermoelectric Sheet Evaluation System in Thickness Direction ZEM-d<\/dd>\n<\/tr>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5756,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5889","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5889\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advance-riko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}