[Outline & History / Company Profile] NIPPON DENSHOKU INDUSTRIES CO.,LTD.

Nippon Denshoku Industries Co.,ltd. Have been the pioneer of instruments for measuring the color and the light. We have released a lot of instruments including spectrophotometer, color meter, haze meter, densitometer, gloss meter, luminometer, whitness checker, water analyzer, lazer particle counter and the color management software which is helpful in many fields such as research, development, manufacture and environment. In this page, we introduced broadly the outline and history, works and market.

It's been half a century since we have started to support the color management. During that time, we have created a variety of new products, at the same time,people are getting sensitive against the color management. Through the history, we have continued to request the customer's needs and provided the goods. What has motivated us as a leading company is humanism including the passion for the research and development, the faith for stable goods, the suggestion for the color management at the best condition, and avove all things, the respect for the profundity and importance of color and light surrounding the human environment. In the future, the importance for the color management will go toward more macro and micro level. We will broaden our views and contribute to color business society. We will do our utmost to live up to your expectations.



Head Quarter		Technical Support Center

Name	NIPPON DENSHOKU INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
Location	• Headquarters • Head Sales Office • Overseas Sales Dept. Sengoku Hasegawa Bldg., 4-45-17 Sengoku, Bunkyo ward. Tokyo, Japan 112-0011 • Osaka Sales Office Shin-Umeda Bldg., 2-2-1 Shibata, Kita ward, Osaka, Japan 530-0012 • Technical Support Center 3-20-17 Minami-Koshigaya, Koshigaya city, Saitama prefecture, Japan
Founded	February 8, 1960
Capital	¥ 81 million
President	Koichi Iwamoto
Businesses	Manufacture and sale of color measuring equipment
Product categories	Spectrophotometers, Color meters, Glossmeters, Turbidity (Haze) meters,Tap water meter, Color and turbidity meters, Industrial waste water, Coloring rate meters, Petroleum product colorimeters, Whiteness checkers, Reflection rate meters, Standard light sources

May	1954	Minoru Suzuki developed Japan's first color meter, founds Suzuki Seisakujo, and began the production and sale of color meter and general scientific equipment
February	1960	The Color Division was spun off from Suzuki Seisakujo with a capitalization of ¥500,000 and established as the current Nippon Denshoku Industries Co., Ltd., with Minoru Suzuki as the first president and representative director. The new company was headquartered in 5 street, Komagome, Toshima ward, Tokyo.
September	1966	Capital increased to ¥ 2 million.
February	1967	With the growth of business, headquarters moved to 4-chome Sengoku, Bunkyo-ward, Tokyo.
June	1979	Tooth color tester developed (utility model registered).
March	1989	Construction of Technical Center completed at 3-chome Minami-Koshigaya, Koshigaya-shi, Saitama-prefecture. Technical Division strengthened.
April	1991	Capital increased to ¥ 81 million.
April	1994	Tap water analyzer and chromaticity/turbidity analyzer developed (utility model registered).
December	1995	Industrial waste water color meter developed (patent pending).
November	2000	Quality management system ISO 9001:2000
December	2001	Particle counter measurement instrument (Patent pending)
January	2003	The measurement method for color (Patent pending)