Establishment: Capital of
10 million Japanese Yen

Stepping motor driver RD-122 was released.

Article of RD-122 was published in magazine “Mechanical Automation”.

Stepping motor drivers RD-123, RD-023, RD-153, and RD-053 were released.

Science and Technology Agency: Noteworthy Invention Award

Ultra-compact controller RC-201 was released.

Stepping motor drivers RD-126, RD-026, RD-155, and RD-055 were released.

Controller RC-202 for the unmanned system was released.

Clean robot RR302 was released.

Micro-stepping motor driver was released.

Article of RORZE unmanned system method was published in magazine “Processor”.

Article of semiconductor clean handling system was published in magazine “Mechanical Automation”.

Clean robot RR304 was released.

Capital was increased to 35,000,000 Japanese Yen.

Vacuum clean robot RR351 was developed.

Wafer transfer unit RR6120 was released.

New head office factory was constructed: Full floor area 682m²

Capital was increased to 49,000,000 Japanese Yen (free capital increase).

“Group Zero” was established.

Capital was increased to 114,000,000 Japanese Yen.

Employee shareholding association started.

Super clean robot RR307 was released.

I/O master controller RC-207 was released.

Vacuum clean robot RR351 was released.

The second phase of the factory construction was completed: Full floor area 2,065m².

Vacuum clean robots RR352 and RR452 were released.

RORZE Research Institute was opened. (Hamamatsu)

Capital was increased to 400,625,000 Japanese Yen.

Symmetry finger robots RR304L120TF51 and RR304L150TF51 were released.

Micro-stepping motor drivers RD-023MS and RD-323MS were released.

Encoder input type oscillator built-in controllers RC-231 and RC-231HA were released.

Expansion of head office building was completed: Full floor area 2,752 m².

Cassette handling robots were released (RR501 and RR601).

Site for new head office was acquired: 83,907 m².

New Business Award: Excellence Award

Micro-stepping motor driver RD-053MS was released.

Dual-arm clean robot RR701 was released.

Trajectory type self-traveling robot RZ9201 was released.

New Frontier Award: Grand Prize and Excellent Product Award

Two-phase micro-stepping driver RD-021M8 was released.

Large glass substrate handling robot was released.

100 V AC input five-phase stepping motor driver RD-A051 was released.

Controller with S-curve acceleration/deceleration function RC-233 was released.

Underfloor trajectory type self-traveling robot was released.

ID number automatic reading system was released.

Capital was increased to 490,625,000 Japanese Yen.

Large glass substrate handling dual-arm robot RR405 was released.

Large glass substrate handling robots RR404 and RR467 were released.

Capital was increased to 546,875,000 Japanese Yen.

Mass production of large glass substrate handling dual-arm robot RR405 started.

Construction of the factory for manufacturing glass substrate handling robot and system was completed: Site area 40,523 m², Full floor area 3,056 m².

High output low vibration type two-phase micro-stepping motor driver RD-026MS was released.

Loader/Unloader for handling SMIF pod was released.

300 mm wafer handling system was released.

Subsidiary RORZE INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD. was established in Singapore.

Affiliate RORZE TECHNOLOGY, INC. was established in Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Kyushu FA Center was opened in Kumamoto.

Organization change to FA Centers in domestic offices was announced.

Tokyo Sales Office was moved in Ebina, Kanagawa to be Kanagawa FA Center.

Capital was increased to 771,875,000 Japanese Yen.

Michinoue Factory extension (2nd phase) was completed: Full floor area 7,015 m². Head office was moved and integrated, and old head office became Chujo Factory.

Training building was constructed: Full floor area 458 m².

CE marking compliant Sensor Mate RS-112 was developed.

Subsidiary RORZE ROBOTECH INC. was established in Haiphong-City, Vietnam.

Subsidiary RORZE AUTOMATION, INC was established in Milpitas, CA, U.S.A.

Affiliate RORZE TECHNOLOGY, INC. became a subsidiary.

Head office factory extension (3rd phase) was completed: Full floor area 11,870 m².

Chujo factory was integrated into Head office.

Subsidiary RORZE SYSTEMS CORPORATION was established in Suwon-City, Kyunggi-Do, Korea.

Company stock was registered as over-the-counter share.

Capital was increased to 982,775,000 Japanese Yen.

Standard platform Courier 6000 Series for 300 mm wafers was released.

VOUP was proposed as mini-environment system.

New building of RORZE ROBOTECH INC. was completed.

Site was acquired in Koshi-machi, Kumamoto: 18,515 m².

SEMI Standards compliant FOUP opener YZLOAD was released.

Standard cassette station for 300 mm wafers RACS300 was released.

New controller RC-400 Series was released.

Motion Controllers RC-400, RC-410, and RC-420 were released.

Head office extension was completed: Full floor area 12,185 m².

Carrier stock for 300 mm wafers RICSS300 was released.

New building of Kyushu FA Center was completed: Full floor area 6,692 m².

Multi-axis interpolating robot RR730 was released.

Large glass substrate handling dual-arm robot for 5th generation glass substrate RR421 was released.

Dual-blade multi-axis interpolating robot RR732 was released.

Cassette Station for 5th generation glass substrate RRG-80 was released.

ISO 9001:2000 was acquired.

7th generation glass substrate handling system was developed.

Subsidiary RORZE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANTS (SIP) CO., LTD. was established in Suzhou, China.

New wafer handling vacuum robot “MUSASHI” was released.

Head office factory was awarded “Chairman’s Award of Japan Greenery Research and Development Center”.

Name of Kyushu FA Center was changed to Kyushu Factory.

Shares of IS TECHNOLOGY JAPAN, INC. were acquired, and business development for the bio-related business started.

RORZE SYSTEMS CORPORATION (Korea) completed a new factory in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, and moved there.

Square-configuration chamber was released.

Name of Kyushu FA Center was changed to Kyushu Factory.

Selected to one of the 300 strongest small and medium enterprises.

ISO14001:2004 (Environmental Management System) was acquired.

New EFEM RSC141 was released.

Name of RORZE ROBOTECH INC. was changed to RORZE ROBOTECH CO., LTD.

Subsidiary RORZE TECHNOLOGY TRADING CO., LTD. was established in Shanghai, China.

We signed a sales agent contract in Japan with Cimetrix Inc.

Vacuum platform was released.

Single-axis robot GHR Series was released.

Vacuum platform for 450 mm wafers was released.

Incubator (Cell culture equipment) “Scale120” was commercialized by the joint development with IS TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. INC.

New EFEM ROSSO-E131 was released.

President Fumio Sakiya was awarded Medal with Yellow Ribbon.

Stepping servo control system “New Controller Driver RMD Series” and the robot, load port, aligner, and wafer handling system using it were released.

N2 purge wafer stocker was developed.

Subsidiary JIKA JIKA CO., LTD. was established in Haiphong City, Vietnam.

Shares were listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange JASDAQ (standard) according to integration of cash market of Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange.

Operation of solar power plant (max. output 954 kW) in Head office started.

Scheduling software package “AsuRa” for bio-automation was released.

Operation of solar power plant (max. output 393 kW) in Kyushu Factory started.

Affiliate of NINGBO YUNYU MAGNETIC-TECH ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL CO., LTD. was established in Zhejiang, China.

Multi-axis interpolating robot RR73B was released.

Wafer handling robot RR759 was released.

N2 bottom purge load port RV201-F07-N Series was released.

Cell culture equipment with the automated exchange function of culture medium “CellKeeper(R)” was released.

New image sensor-mounted aligner RA320 L Series and RA420 L Series were released.

RORZE listing of shares was changed from JASDAQ to the Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

RORZE was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

SCALE48 was released.

RORZE ROBOTECH received Excellent Corporate Award from Hai Phong.

Acquired 100% ownership of IS TECHNOLOGY JAPAN. INC. and renamed to RORZE Lifescience co. inc.

RORZE ROBOTECH, the production base in Vietnam, started operation at its new plant(the 4th plant).

Fumio Sakiya, Advisor to the Board of Directors, was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays.

Established Shanghai Rorze Remed Biotechnology Co., Ltd in Shanghai, China, a joint venture for the development, manufacture and sale of life science related equipment.

Established European subsidiary RORZE ENGINEERING GmbH in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

Received the Best Supplier Award from CANON ANELVA CORPORATION.
RORZE ROBOTECH won the award as a supplier that made a significant contribution to delivery, quality and cost.

Kanagawa FA Center relocated to Yokohama City and renamed Yokohama Office.

RORZE SYSTEMS CORPORATION, a subsidiary in Korea, built a new factory in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.