Company History

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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 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