Biochrom Corporation

Founded Yamaki Shōji, a specialty trading company for physical and chemical instruments.

With business expansion, renamed to Biochromat Co., Ltd. and incorporated.

In addition to supplying our core chromatography components, we are starting to supply semiconductor components.

With business expansion, we will relocate our headquarters to 1-12-19 Honmachi, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. We will also open an office in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, the hometown of founder Yōichi Kinoshita.

We have started developing consumables for research instruments in collaboration with a major pharmaceutical company and a manufacturing processing company.

Patent application for ABC Film (now RAPID Slit Seal).

We absorbed a related company and established the BioChromat SPC division. We started developing a concentration device with a major pharmaceutical company.

Mr. Shinma Kinoshita assumed the role of Representative Director. Patent application for the concentration device (now Convenience Evapo).

ISO 9001 certification obtained.

Triggered by the Lehman Shock, we decided to transition from a specialized scientific instrument trading company to a full-fledged scientific instrument manufacturer.

We strengthened recruitment of personnel with mechanical design and chemical knowledge, and began visiting overseas trade shows. We filed a patent application for the ion generation device (now ionRocket) developed with a major cosmetics manufacturer.

We began exhibiting at overseas trade shows. Patent applications for analytical instruments, analytical methods, and software (now DiscoveryM).

The Kurume office was closed due to the planned reduction of trading company functions.

The Convenience Evapo series received the Excellence Award at the 26th Small and Medium Enterprise Outstanding New Technology and New Product Award, jointly sponsored by the Resona Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Foundation (public foundation) and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Co., Ltd.

Patent application for a coupling device for mass spectrometry instruments.

Launched our own product, ionRocket.

The Convenience Evapo series won the 2016 Kanagawa Industry Navi Grand Prize, hosted by the Kanagawa Prefecture Business Owners Welfare Promotion Foundation (public foundation).

Received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award in the field of science and technology, FY2018.

Received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Science and Technology Award in FY2018.