Company Profile and History
Company Profile
- ■ Company Name
- Kohzu Precision Co., Ltd.
- ■ Established
- ■ Location
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- Head Office
- 2-6-15 Kurigi, Asao, Kawasaki Kanagawa 215-8521, Japan
Tel: +81-44-981-2131 - Shanghai Office
- Room 520, No.A Building WOLI CENTER No.2157,
Hunan Road, Pudong New Dist, Shanghai 201204, China
Tel: ＋86-21-6426-2261
- ■ Paid-in Capital
- 99,653,000 JPY
- ■ President/CEO
- Yoshihiko Uchida
- ■ Number of Employees
- 130
Company History
| 1945 | Founded and opened business for the repair of measuring devices such as transits and other surveying instruments. |
| 1957 | Founded Limited Liability Company KOHZU Precision. |
| 1961 | Reorganized to Joint Stock Company KOHZU Precision Co., Ltd. Katsuji Kohzu inaugurated as initial president. |
| 1962 | Began production of inspection devices for automobile lamps. |
| 1963 | Opened Kawasaki Factory in Miyamae-Ward, Kawasaki-City, Kanagawa-Prefecture. |
| 1968 | Began production and sales of complete laser optical devices. |
| 1975 | Delivered full-scale synchrotron radiation monochromators for the first time in Japan to the Institute for Nuclear Study SOR facility in Tanashi. |
| 1982 | Started to deliver double crystal monochromators to synchrotron radiation facility in the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics in the Education Ministry. Continued to supply many monochromators and diffractometers. |
| 1983 | Delivered metre standard based on laser resonators to the National Research Laboratory for Metrology, Agency of Industrial Sciences and Technology of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. This became a measuring standard in Japan. |
| 1987 | Specifications such as Precision XY stages were standardized. Began production of 3 CCD camera assembly system. Soon thereafter,KOHZU became the standard in this field. |
| 1988 | Delivered double crystal X-ray monochromators to the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US. |
| 1992 | Relocated Kawasaki Factory to Machida for business expansion. |
| 1994 | Delivered high heat load double crystal X-ray monochromator to radiation facility in the Advanced Photon Source(APS)at Argonne National Laboratory in the US. Delivered cam type double crystal X-ray monochromator to European Synchrotron Radiation Facility(ESRF). Began production of LCD attachment and adjustment instruments for liquid crystal projector manufacturers. |
| 1996 | Delivered standard type double crystal monochromator to large-scale synchrotron radiation facility "SPring-8". |
| 1997 | Opened MontBlanc Building. Relocated headquarters. |
| 2000 | Opened Osaka Branch in Mino-City, Osaka-Prefecture. |
| 2002 | Integrated and relocated the headquarters and factories in Kawasaki-City, Kanagawa-Prefecture. |
| 2008 | Osaka office is relocated to an expanded sales market in Yodogawa, Osaka. |
| 2011 | KOHZU Precision Co.,Ltd have been in business for 50 years. Kohzu's stage was used for analysis of microparticulate which is collected by " asteroid probe Hayabusa ". |
| 2013 | Got SonyGreenPartners approval for some products. |
| 2018 | ISO 9001:2015 certification. |
| 2020 | Extension of clean room building for production of products requiring cleanliness. |