@

History

APRIORI's History:

1983 Founded in May 10th, and establishment recording in August 8th
1987 Technical Center was established
1996 Technical Center has moved
1996 Headquater has moved to the present place
2001 Technical Center has moved to the present place

APRIORI Corporation was founded in May 1983 at Kanda-kajicho,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Japan.

The company started literally from zero, putting a desk in an office of a friendly company.

The founder had been a sales engineer of the fluid controls in the importers for heavy industries such as space, nuclear, ocean, military armament, ferrous and non-ferrous industries.

So, he mainly handled sophisticated US products and learned engineering and sales know-how.@Moreover, he was fortunate to have had an opportunity to join most of the national projects of our country.

At the foundation of APRIORI, semi-conductor manufacturing industry was about to boom, therefore, business target of APRIORI was aimed at fluid controls in association with the semi-conductor production.

Furthermore, APRIORI started development & manufacturing of thin-film deposition system and chemical reaction control system as truly excellent engineers have joined.

Since the foundation, APRIORI has been a dealer of STEC(Standard Technology Inc.) Mass Flow Controller. This product was not famous, but now STEC(HORIBAstec) is the top maker of Mass Flow Controller in the world and APRIORI is the top dealer.

Moreover, APRIORI had been acting as the exclusive representative of Thomas Swan & Co.,Ltd.(U.K.)@for MOCVD System and Gas Concentration Monitors which is used in most MOCVD Systems until a sales distribution partnership was terminated in 2002. (1985-2002)

APRIORI's mission is to offer product & service, which is supported by the high level of technology to the dramatically changing fields as semiconductor electronics & Information Technology.


APRIORI's Future:

"APRIORI Brings you Technology Science" is the catch-phrase of APRIORI.
This catch-phrase was made when the company was founded, but remains unchanged.

APRIORI wishes to be the enterprise that support progressive fields like Chemical Reaction Technology and Epitaxial Technology.

We already have firmly contributed in Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition, Optical Fiber, New Glass Substrate, and further hope to play an active part in Carbon Nano-tube, Bulk Metal Glass, and Biotechnology.