| October 15, 1962 | SHINSEI SANGYO Inc. established in Meguro-ku, Tokyo |
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| 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 with 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 Union |
| 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 12th 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 that 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 that performs 3 to 12 kW small-scale power generation with 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 |
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