Who We Are
KYOWA provides customized technology solutions and supports and assists you with your application
Performance |
Kyowa has gained its reliability and skills in over 70 years of extensive experience |
Kyowa has been enjoying Japan's most significant market sales share for many years. We are growing together with our customers through interactive dialogues to solve various surface and interface science problems.
In addition, we offer expedited repair service and our high-quality measurement software and hardware products for all kinds of measurement challenges in interface chemistry.
Quality |
Kyowa offers high-quality measurements and assurance of its measurement results |
Measurements of contact angles, surface tensions, peel adhesions, friction forces, fogging properties, and oil amounts in metal sheet production in R&D and quality control have significant influences not only on the quality of the products but also on intellectual properties rights, such as patents and trademarks.
We contribute to industrial and academic development by providing high-performance scientific instruments, allowing customers to publish their measurement results confidently.
Technology |
Kyowa constantly strives to refine its skills of measurement techniques and know-how |
In its over 70 years in business, Kyowa has been facing various surface and interfacial phenomena in every industry sector. As a result, we have been challenging established academic theories and practical techniques to resolve specific problems and expand the range of applications.
In new product development, we benefit from the wisdom inherited and accumulated over the years through extensive customer dialogues, academic advice from professoriate and our constantly improving measurement skills.
Solutions from Kyowa Interface Science
We assist our customers from the perspective of interface science with both qualitative and quantitative analysis of various characteristic properties required in coating processes.
People tend to overlook interfacial phenomena such as wettability, adhesion, surface tension, dispersion, and emulsion in their daily lives. But these phenomena do play a significant role in various fields of companies to create added value to products that can improve the customer’s experience and make their lives better and easier.
Soon after its establishment in 1947, Kyowa started to manufacture two kinds of measuring instruments: The Contact Angle Meter to evaluate wettability and the Tensiometer to determine the surface tension, which is a critical factor affecting wettability. In the more than 60 years since the sale of the first Tensiometer, we have constantly been creating new products and evolving unique measuring techniques for practical use with our products.
In rapidly evolving industries, such as semiconductors, nanotechnology, and flat panel display, surface tension, and wettability evaluation are essential to the quality improvement of highly functional materials.
The wet coating process is a widely used technique in the mass production of functional raw materials. However, troubles may occur at interfaces between different materials throughout the coating process flow. By identifying and properly controlling these individual interface surfaces, the optimization of the product quality becomes possible.
We support our customer’s indispensable Analysis and Optimization of Interfacial Phenomena in Wet-Coating Processes
In most cases, functional materials are present in powders, such as nanoparticles and fillers, before being used as intermediate products and subsequently incorporated into the final product. Then, the powders are blended into liquids to create consistent, homogenous fine particle dispersions, which will be applied to substrates by any known method to obtain coating films with the desired properties.
To achieve optimum coating conditions, high-quality coating films, and receive accurate feedback on the quality evaluation of the finished coating film, controlling surfaces and interfaces is necessary throughout the whole process in correspondence with the required characteristics of each application.
We support and assist our customers from the surface science perspective and continuously work on new ways to improve coating processes and contribute to the development of science and industry.
Quality Policy
We are committed to high levels of customer satisfaction and Corporate Social Responsibility.
We aim to establish well-defined business processes and to lay out responsibilities.
We aim to set measurable quality objectives and gauge their achievement level.