History
1974 | January | Standard Technology Inc. established. (Capital participation by HORIBA, Ltd., Toshiba Beckman Co., Ltd., Shimadzu Corporation and Takachiho Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.) | ||
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August | Capital participation by Denki Kagaku Keiki Co., Ltd. | |||
1976 | April | Tokyo Sales Office opened. | ||
1977 | July | Capital and management participation by Beckman Japan Co., Ltd. replacing Toshiba Beckman Co.,Ltd. | ||
1980 | May | SEC group clean room completed. | ||
1981 | December | Exhibited for the first time at SEMICON Japan, ‘81. | ||
1982 | March | Tsukuba Sales Office Opened. | ||
1983 | March | Sub-factory established in Kuze Industrial District. | ||
July | Micon Techno House Kyoto STEC Office opened. | |||
1984 | January | Standard Technology Inc. renamed to STEC Inc. | ||
1985 | February | West Tokyo Sales Office opened. | ||
October | Capital increased to ¥174,000,000 | |||
Kumamoto Service Office opened. | ||||
1987 | April | Tsukuba Sales Office converted to a full Sales Office. | ||
Kumamoto Service Office converted to Kyushu Sales Office. | ||||
1988 | September | Aso factory opened. | ||
1989 | January | United States Service Center opened in Silicon Valley, California. | ||
November | Main office relocated. Clean room added. | |||
1990 | October | Sendai Sales Office opened. | ||
November | Nagoya Sales Office opened. | |||
1991 | February | STEC Instrument Inc., a subsidiary of STEC Inc., opened in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A. | ||
May | SEC model production initiated. | |||
June | Aso factory’s second addition started. | |||
September | South Korean Service Center established. | |||
1992 | February | Second phase of Aso factory expansion completed. | ||
March | Capital increased to ¥678,000,000 | |||
April | West wing of main office relocated. | |||
1994 | July | Service Center in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. established. | ||
August | Tokyo Sales Office relocated. | |||
1995 | January | STEC Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of STEC Inc., established near Seoul, South Korea. | ||
March | Sales reach ¥10,000,000,000 for fiscal 1995. | |||
1996 | May | Taiwan Branch Office opened. | ||
July | Austin, Texas factory opened. | |||
October | SIS system introduced. | |||
November | Capital increased to ¥1,478,000,000. | |||
1997 | August | Hiroshima Sales Office opened. | ||
September | New Main Office and Plant(Kyoto) completed. | |||
1998 | September | U.S. subsidiary STEC Instrument Inc. has been merged into the new HORIBA/STEC Inc. | ||
1999 | February | ISO9001 certification received ( JQA-3048 ). | ||
October | Home Page Service (www.stec-inc.co.jp) introduced. | |||
2000 | April | Service Center established in Nagoya and Hiroshima. | ||
2001 | May | Overseas subsidiary STEC KOREA Ltd. received ISO9001 certification(CI/2680) | ||
2002 | June | CHESS system (total information system) starts operating. | ||
September | ISO9001:2000 annual transfer inspection. | |||
2003 | March | STEC has acquired IP (Intellectual Property) rights of vacuum gauge from Ferran Scientific Inc. | ||
April | FuGasity company introduces mass flow controller related technology and products. | |||
May | Aso office land and buildings purchased. | |||
October | VEGA (CDG production line) completed. | |||
2004 | May | Nirasaki Sales Office established. | ||
July 1 | Name changed to HORIBA STEC,Co., Ltd. | |||
September | Taiwan Office relocated and expanded. | |||
2005 | January | HORIBA STEC becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of HORIBA, Ltd. | ||
April | HORIBA STEC’s privacy policy made public. | |||
October | New Aso factory, which will function as a mass production facility for the HORIBA group, completed. | |||
November | HORIBA STEC has acquired IP (Intellectual Property) rights of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer from Ferran Scientific Inc. | |||
2006 | February | ISO14001 certification received ( JQA-EM5202 ). | ||
August | Nagoya Sales Office relocated. | |||
2007 | March | The Shanghai service center has been enhanced. | ||
July | The HORIBA technology center opened in the U.S.A. | |||
August | The Tainan service center opened in Taiwan. | |||
2012 | August | Aso factory completed as the largest group mass production factory | ||
2013 | December | HORIBA STEC Kyoto Fukuchiyama Technology Center completed in Kyoto, Japan. | ||
2015 | April | HORIBA Advanced Technology Center completed in Kyoto, Japan. | ||
2017 | September | HORIBA Taiwan relocated and expanded. | ||
2017 | May | Aso factory expansion completed. | ||
2018 | June | Kyoto Fukuchiyama Technology Center expansion completed. | ||
2018 | August | Relocation and expand Reno R&D center in US. | ||
2018 | May | Obtained ISO/IEC17025 accreditation for gas flow rate. | ||
2019 | December | HORIBA METRON Instruments Co.,Ltd.changed its company name to HORIBA Precision Insturnebts(Bejing)Co.,Ltd. |