TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates an industrial precious metals business as a core company of TANAKA Precious Metals, announces that it has signed a technical assistance agreement with Chengdu Guangming Paite Precious Metal, an affiliated company in China, in the area of fuel cell electrode catalyst manufacturing technologies.

TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which develops the manufacturing business of TANAKA Precious Metals, and TANAKA Denshi Kogyo K.K., is pleased to announce that it will participate in PCIM Europe 2023, the international trade fair dedicated to power electronics and their fields of application, to be held from 9—11 May 2023, in Nuremberg, Germany.

The TANAKA Memorial Foundation announced that it will take applications for research themes for FY2022 Precious Metals Research Grants between 1st September and 30th November, 2022.

The process prevents oxidation of substrates and achieves ultra-thin films of high quality and low resistance through a two-stage ALD (atomic layer deposition) process using the liquid ruthenium precursor 'TRuST'. Applications are expected in advanced technologies necessary for technological innovations such as data centres and IoT technologies.

TANAKA Holdings, has announced that its subsidiary, TANAKA Denshi Kogyo K.K. which is engaged in the production of various types of bonding wires, will establish a plant in Hangzhou City, China, for the production of aluminum bonding wires for power semiconductors.

Tanaka has developed the world's first kit able to directly detect the ZIKA virus (ZIKV) in blood. The kit is capable of rapid ZIKV detection in just 10 to 15 minutes. Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo plans to supply samples for clinical evaluation with a view to collaboration with domestic and overseas medical manufacturers.

The Clarity Fuel Cell vehicle from Honda, which went on sale in March, is using platinum electrode catalysts from Tanaka Holdings in its fuel cells.

Tanaka Precious Metals will exhibit at "FC EXPO 2016 - 12th International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo," one of the world's largest fuel cell exhibitions, which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from Wednesday, March 2 until Friday, March 4, 2016. 

Tanaka has announced it will exhibit at Medical Design & Manufacturing West (MD&M West) to be held in Anaheim, USA, from February 9 to 11. Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo develops and manufactures a wide range of precious metal materials, including electrodes and radiopaque markers using knowledge of precious metals built up over many years.

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. has developed a cadmium-free electrical contact material for use primarily in vehicles and smartphones with what is said to be improved sliding wear resistance compared to existing products. Full scale production of CDF-10 will start on December 1st.

Tanaka Holdings has announced that Electroplating Engineers of Japan, Limited (EEJA), which operates the Tanaka Precious Metals' plating business, has developed and launched the RAD-Plater cup-type ultra-compact plating laboratory equipment for semiconductor wafers, which achieves equivalent films to mass-production machines.

Tanaka Holdings have announced the recipients of the Tanaka Precious Metals' 2014 'Precious Metals Research Grants.' After a strict examination of the results, Associate Professor Yu-Ching Lin of Tohoku University and Assistant Professor Tsuyoshi Minami of Yamagata University were selected to receive the 2m yen 'Gold Award.'

Electroplating Engineers of Japan, which operates the Tanaka Precious Metals Group's plating business, together with Professor Junichi Takeya, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, has developed the world's first technology for the simultaneous formation of contact electrodes for p-type and n-type1 Organic-semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (OFETs) using an electroless plating process.

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.(1) and SUSS MicroTec KK will begin joint development of pattern transfer and bonding technology using sub-micron sized (1/10,000mm) gold particles.