{"id":484,"date":"2026-05-21T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stag.club-phi.ulvac-phi.com\/company\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:47:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ulvac-phi.com\/en\/company\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Profile and Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Company Profile<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Company Name<\/th>\nULVAC-PHI, Inc.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Established<\/th>\nNovember 1, 1982<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Capital<\/th>\n100 million yen<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Shareholder<\/th>\nULVAC, Inc.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Board of Directors and Auditor<\/th>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
President<\/td>\nHirohisa Takahashi<\/span><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\nAtsushi Ogata<\/span><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\nHaruhiko Ono<\/span><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\nDaisuke Sakai<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\nTakashi Uchida<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\n\nManabu Ezumi<\/span>\n(General Manager Finance & Accounting Division Administration HQ of ULVAC, Inc.)<\/span><\/td>\n \n <\/tr>\n
Executive Director<\/td>\nTaku Hanna<\/span>\n(Manager\nPE-Semiconductor Technology Research\u3000Department Institute of Advanced Technology research\uff06Development HQ of ULVAC, Inc.)<\/span><\/td> \n <\/tr>\n
Auditor<\/td>\n\nKazuya Saitou<\/span>\n(Auditor of ULVAC, Inc.)<\/span><\/td>\n \n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n\n \n
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Milestones<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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\n May 1969<\/span>\n
Physical Electronics Inc. (PHI) <\/strong>forms as one of the first specialty companies for surface analysis instruments in the world, developed by Dr. R. E. Weber of the University of Minnesota.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n April 1971<\/span>\n
Japan Vacuum Engineering Co., Ltd. (now known as ULVAC, Inc.) concludes general agent agreements in Japan with PHI.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n November 1982<\/span>\n
PHI and Japan Vacuum Engineering Co., Ltd. dissolve general agent agreements to establish the joint-venture company ULVAC-PHI, Inc.<\/strong><\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n 1983<\/span>\n
Opens Osaka branch office.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n September 1997<\/span>\n
Chigasaki headquarter and factory move to the newly-built office.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n February 2003<\/span>\n
ULVAC-PHI, Inc. purchases the R&D surface analysis instrument division and becomes the leading company in the manufacture and sales of surface analysis instruments.Establishes Physical Electronics USA (PHI-USA).<\/strong><\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n December 2003<\/span>\n
Acquired a U.S.-based service division, establishing a global instrument maintenance network.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n November 2004<\/span>\n
ULVAC-PHI, Inc. starts sales of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy with a C60<\/span> ion gun.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n December 2008<\/span>\n
Releases the newly-developed Gas Cluster Ion Gun.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n September 2010<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI Quantera II<\/strong>” Scanning XPS Microprobe.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n September 2011<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI X-tool<\/strong>” Automated XPS Microprobe.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n November 2012<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI 710<\/strong>” Scanning Auger Nanoprobe.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n February 2015<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI nanoTOF II<\/strong>” Time-of-flight SIMS.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n May 2016<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI 5000 VersaProbe III<\/strong>” Scanning XPS Microprobe and Scanning Auger Electron Spectrometer “PHI 4800<\/strong>“.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n October 2016<\/span>\n
Releases the “Parallel imaging MS\/MS option” for the PHI nanoTOF II.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n February 2017<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI Quantes” Dual Scanning X-ray (Al K\u03b1 & Cr K\u03b1) Photoelectron Microprobe.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n Mach 2017<\/span>\n
Began sales of the high-speed spectroscopic ellipsometer “PHI QuickSE<\/strong>” series.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n August 2017<\/span>\n
Headquarter and factory relocate to the ULVAC headquarter.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n October 2021<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI VersaProbe 4<\/strong>” Scanning XPS Microprobe and the “PHI nanoTOF 3<\/strong>” Time-of-flight SIMS.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n July 2022<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI GENESIS<\/strong>” Scanning XPS\/HAXPES Microprobe.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n August 2023<\/span>\n
Osaka branch office closed.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n October 2023<\/span>\n
Releases the “PHI nanoTOF 3+<\/strong>” Time-of-flight SIMS.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n November 2023<\/span>\n
ULVAC PHI Instruments Co., Ltd.<\/strong> established in China.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n July 2026<\/span>\n
Released the quadrupole-type secondary ion mass spectrometer “PHI ADEPT 2<\/strong>.”<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Company Profile Company Name ULVAC-PHI, Inc. Established November 1, 1982 Capital 100 million yen Shareholder ULVAC, Inc. Board of Directors and Auditor President Hirohisa Takahashi Executive Director Atsushi Ogata Executive Director Haruhiko Ono Executive Director Daisuke Sakai Executive Director Takashi Uchida Executive Director Manabu Ezumi (General Manager Finance & Accounting Division Administration HQ of ULVAC, Inc.) Executive Director Taku Hanna (Manager PE-Semiconductor Technology Research\u3000Department Institute of Advanced Technology research\uff06Development HQ of ULVAC, Inc.) Auditor Kazuya Saitou (Auditor of ULVAC, Inc.) Milestones May 1969 Physical Electronics Inc. (PHI) forms as one of the first specialty companies for surface analysis instruments in the world, developed by Dr. R. E. Weber of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":476,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t