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History
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| January 1965 |
Founded in Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City. |
| January 1967 |
Commenced supplying products to the plants of Nippon Steel. |
| June 1967 |
Constructed a new office building (Wing B) and moved the office and plant to the current address (8 Aza Yasewari, Kiori, Miwa-cho, Ama-gun, Aichi). |
| February 1974 |
Developed, manufactured, and sold the first pressure quench vacuum furnace in Japan. |
| April 1981 |
Commenced supplying products to Baoshan Iron & Steel in Shanghai. |
| September 1981 |
Completed the extension work of the plant (Wing A). |
| July 1983 |
Technical alliance with Plansee (Tirol, Austria). |
| September 1983 |
Increased capital to 20 million yen. |
| May 1984 |
Constructed a new CVD processing/assembly plant (Wing C). |
| May 1986 |
Business alliance with Klockner-Ionon (West Germany). |
| September 1991 |
Completed the extension work of the vacuum heat-treatment plant for further improvement. |
| July 1993 |
Received a joint patent (Patent No.3010405) with Nippon Steel. |
| August 1996 |
Registered ALCAST-V utility model (Registration No.21380885). |
| October 1996 |
Received a joint patent (Patent No.3251865) with Toyota Motors Corporation. |
| October 1997 |
Received a patent for V-CARRIER (Patent No.2711515). |
| March 1999 |
Constructed new plants (Wings D, E, and F) for manufacturing large furnaces. |
| December 2000 |
Obtained ISO9001 certificate |
| December 2001 |
Participated in the joint project carried out by industry, academia, and government at the Shimane Technical Research Development Center for Next Generation. |
| September 2002 |
Installed a new large furnace to increase vacuum heat treatment capacity of the Commissioned Processing Division. |
| October 2002 |
Developed a next generation plasma heat-treatment equipment. |
| January 2005 |
Certified as "Aichi brand," which is granted to excellent manufacturing enterprises in Aichi. |
| February 2005 |
Installed a new large furnace to increase vacuum heat treatment capacity of the Commissioned Processing Division.
Initiated a joint research on the Active Screen Plasma Nitriding Furnace with Shimane prefecture. |
| September 2005 |
Technical alliance with Plasma Metal (Luxemburg) |
| December 2006 |
Participated in the "Project to Support the Strategic Advancement of Basic Technologies,"commissioned by the national government. |
| July 2007 |
Increased facility capacity to deal with rising CVD coating demand. |
| April 2009 |
Small Business Administration from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, "2009 to support SMEs in Japan making a healthy thing for tomorrow's 300 years" is selected |
