Iwatani R&D Center

Facilities

In addition to a large laboratory that can be used for practical testing of equipment and facilities, we provide a welding technology demonstration room to satisfy diverse welding needs, a multifunctional cleanroom, and a development center for regenerative medicine and biotechnology research. The resulting environment is ideal for experiments across a wide range of research fields.
We also provide the world’s top-level high purity gas analyzers and facilities for analyzing the specialty material gases used in semiconductor manufacturing, as well as the most advanced high-precision analyzers for various research demands, including nanoscale material analysis, environmental analysis, pesticide residue/microbial analysis for food and sanitation.

Welding Demonstration Room

Welding Demonstration Room

The demonstration room makes available our proprietary technologies and products, including welding robots and shielding gas, to meet diverse needs associated with welding at production sites—automation, quality, and cost reductions. We can also perform evaluation tests of shielding gases and welding materials on request from customers.

Welding Robots

Welding Robots

We operate five of the latest welding robots from major Japanese manufacturers, robots that are always available to handle the diverse needs associated with welding at production sites, including automation, efficiency and quality, and cost reductions.

Laser Welding Machines

Laser Welding Machines

Laser welding machines feature a smaller heat affected zone and faster welding speeds compared to arc welding. The Iwatani R&D Center operates laser welding machines with arc welding functions and laser heads with wobble function ready for use at any time.

Welding Machines and Wires

Welding Machines and Wires

We operate around 10 of the most recent welding machine models from major Japanese manufacturers and some 120 types of wires from major domestic and overseas manufacturers, allowing evaluation under wide-ranging conditions.

Welding and Joining Technologies

Specialty High-pressure Gas Laboratory

Specialty High-Pressure Gas Laboratory

This laboratory is designed to ensure safety during evaluation and development efforts that involve the handling of specialty high-pressure gases, which can be extremely hazardous in terms of toxicity and/or explosiveness. For example, replacing conventional manual processes with gas processing techniques using gases such as ClF3 (chlorine trifluoride) for cleaning byproducts generated in the film deposition process of semiconductor manufacturing equipment have been proven to be highly effective in reducing production times and improving equipment operation rates. This is why many semiconductor device manufacturers perform gas processing at production sites.

Specialty High-pressure Gas Laboratory

Specialty High-Pressure Gas Laboratory

We pursue evaluations and development of cleaning gases and performance evaluations of abatement equipment.

Specialty Gas Supply Facility

Specialty Gas Supply Facility

This is a semi-automated facility for ensuring the safe supply of specialty high-pressure gases such as monosilane.

Regenerative Medicine and Biotechnology Research Laboratory

Life Science Research Laboratory

A cleanroom offering the same level of cleanliness as facilities for manufacturing regenerative medicine products has been installed. This facility allows the reproduction and evaluation of the series of processes performed at cell manufacturing plants, from cell culture, freezing, storage, to transportation.

CO2 Incubator

CO2 Incubator

CO2 incubators are used to culture cells at constant temperature and humidity. An additional function involves supplying carbon dioxide at constant concentrations and maintaining the pH of culture solutions at constant levels.

Biosafety Cabinet

Biosafety Cabinet

Cell products used for regenerative medicine, such as iPS cells, must be kept in a clean environment and require measures to prevent leaks. A biosafety cabinet ensures appropriate levels of cleanliness and allows users to change culture mediums, add reagents, and perform genetic manipulation.

Fluorescence Microscope

Fluorescence Microscope

A fluorescence microscope allows magnified observation of cells stained with fluorescent reagents. Cells can be handled while they are alive, allowing observation of dynamic behavior.

Cryogenic Storage Vessels

Cryogenic Storage Vessels

Using liquefied nitrogen to keep the cells at conditions suitable for long-term storage, these vessels are used to store cells at temperatures of −150°C or lower.

Analysis Laboratory

Analysis Laboratory

We maintain a wide range of analytical equipment that provide precise, wide-ranging quantitative information for future technological developments, including nanoscale and ultra-precise concentration control. We have analyzers capable of analyzing the specialty material gases used in semiconductor manufacturing and analysis of nanoscale materials that will determine the future growth of nanotechnologies, as well as an analyzer that controls the world’s highest purity gases. We are developing technologies based on these cutting-edge high-precision analyzers to accurately control the technologies that will pave the way for the next generation of breakthroughs.

  • Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometer (APIMS)

    Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometer (APIMS)

    The atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometer (APIMS) is used to perform quantitative analyses of ultra-trace impurities in hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, and argon gases.

  • X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS)

    X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS)

    An X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) provides information on the chemical composition and state of chemical bonding (e.g., metal, oxide) of materials from the surface down to depths of several nanometers (one billionth of a meter) of a solid specimen.

  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

    Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

    A scanning electron microscope can produce images of solid surface unevenness at magnifications of several tens of thousands, which when combined with an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) allows qualitative and quantitative analysis of the elements comprising materials.

  • Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM)

    Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM)

    Electron microscopes achieve high resolution by applying an electric field (thermal energy in the case of normal scanning electron microscopes) to emitted electron beams. With a magnification factor of up to 1 million, they can be used for nano-level analysis.

Chemistry Laboratory

Chemistry Laboratory

We perform quality evaluations of various products handled by Iwatani. We analyze and evaluate the caloric value and impurity concentrations of PKS (palm kernel shell), sold as fuel for biomass power generation. We also contribute to food safety through pesticide residue analysis and microbial analysis of frozen vegetables, processed marine products, and processed meat products. These analyses are carried out in addition to analyses of nutritional value, such as vitamin content.

PKS Analysis

PKS Analysis

For fuel evaluation, we have established a system that allows the analysis of ten parameters associated with impurities, including caloric values and moisture content, and with this system we can perform in-house quality evaluation of our PKS products.

Pesticide Residue Analysis

Pesticide Residue Analysis

We perform a broad range of quality analyses, including pesticide residue analysis, for the imported food products that we handle.

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