Company Overview

Corporate Information

Company	SEN LIGHTS Corporation
Capital	25.6 million yen
Head office	1-5-23 Hashirii, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, 561-0891 JAPAN MAIL sen@senlights.co.jp FAX +81(0)6-6857-3468
Directors	Kikuchi Kiyoshi (Representative Director) Kikuchi Seiichiro (Director)
Major banks	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Japan Finance Corporation
Membership of professional institutions	Osaka Science & Technology Center 0saka Nuclear Science Association The Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry OSAKA Research and Development Company Association The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan Japan Society on Water Environment The Surface Finishing Society of Japan Japan Ozone Association Japan UV Water Treatment Technology Association Japan Aquatic Landscape Association The Society for Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents, Japan The Japanese Photochemistry Association RadTech Japan

History

1965	Jul – The company was established in Senriyama (the origin of the SEN in our name) with the goal of developing and manufacturing gas laser equipment. Capital stock: 1.6 million yen
1966	HeNe gas laser, CO2 laser, CN laser, and Ar lasers were developed but due to the timing being too early, commercialization was not possible.
1973	Top class for Japan, the low voltage mercury lamp, SUV110D, was developed. This marked the point where the company started its involvement in the UV field.
1975	Received a grant from Osaka Prefecture for the development of new technology and products, started development of UV ozone simultaneous production control for use as low voltage mercury lamp.
1976	Developed uzon – a UV ozone and water processing unit. This marked the company entering the water treatment field.
1978	Aug – Obtained patent for UV ozone water processing unit
1983	Obtained permission from Kanagawa Prefecture to put to practical use the Kanagawa Industrial Research Institute developed “Light Ozone Oxidation Sewerage Processing Unit” for a new purpose. The relative importance of water processing equipment increased
1984	Received High-technology Industry Training loan from Osaka Prefecture Theme: Development of UV light sources for use in the manufacturing process of semiconductors etc. This marked the start of our participation in the light surface processing field
1985	Increase in capital, capital stock becomes 6.4million yen
1987	Technology Kaizen grant received from Ministry of International Trade and Industry Theme: Removal of organochlorine compounds from sewerage using light ozone
1987	Entrusted by Hitachi Machine Engineering to develop marine organism stain prevention device
1988	Constructed current HQ factory
1992	Acquired patent: Device to prevent adhesion of aquatic life to equipment used in seawater, etc. Patent Rights: SEN LIGHTS Corporation, Hitachi Kikai Engineering Co. Ltd.
1995	Increase in Capital. Capital stock becomes 25.6 million yen. 48 million yen worth of convertible bond notes issued, underwritten by Daiwa Bank Investment Co. Ltd.
1999	December – Authorized under the Creative Business Ventures Promotion law of Osaka Prefecture Theme: Development of oxidation water processing device that combines three underlying technologies, UV, oxidant and activated carbon
2000	Feb – Obtained CE Marking April – Commenced sales of mini-BioClean Nov – Acquired patent: Method to reform metal surfaces
2001	Jan – Established Tokyo Sales Office May – Obtained ISO14001 July – Received grant for industry-academic collaborative research from Osaka Business Development Agency Inc. Theme: New decolorization system by using a combination of ultrasound device in conjunction with UV ozone disintegrating device
2002	Small to Medium Enterprise Finance Corporation Selected for special loan for growing business (2002 Inaugural Osaka)
2003	Performed collaborative industry-academic research with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Theme: Research into practical use of Vacuum UV adhesion devices Period: April 1st, 2003 to March 31st, 2004
2005	Signed agreement to conduct research into the development of new technologies dealing with discharge tubes with the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Osaka University
2012	Commenced sales of desktop excimer devices
2015	Received grant for verified business in service, commerce, manufacturing from Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Theme: Development and production system creation of extreme UV light source for use in cleaning / reforming
2016	Selected by Osaka Prefecture for the Monozukuri Innovation Support Project Theme: Development of Extreme UV equipped light surface processing device for use in cleaning and reforming
2017	Selected by Osaka Prefecture for the Monozukuri Innovation Support Project Theme: Development of Xe flash lamp-equipped UV sterilization device, sterilization through light emission pulses.
2018	Selected by Osaka Prefecture for the Monozukuri Innovation Support Project Theme: Development of Deep UV UV-LED-equipped running water sterilization device