Corporate History
- June 1971:
- Established Yasuda Seiko Co, Ltd, and started production of poly variable capacitors.
- April 1978:
- Changed the corporate name to Andes Electric Co., Ltd. Started mass production of printers, CD players and other products.
- September 1982:
- Hachinohe Plant was established. (the current head office).
- July 1992:
- Started production and sales of air purifiers.
- May 1995:
- Started full-scale mass production of liquid crystal color filters.
- August 1998:
- Established the Tokyo Branch Office.
- September 2001:
- Announced the air ion-related equipment of the "inti" series.
- November 2001:
- Started sales of air ion counters and other products.
June 2002: Launched air purifiers equipped with titanium oxide photocatalyst of the "Refreshing Breeze from Green Forest" series. - June 2002:
- Launched air purifiers equipped with titanium oxide photocatalyst of the "Refreshing Breeze from Green Forest" series.
- January 2003:
- Received the Special Award of the 9th Tohoku New Business Grand Prize for commercialization of photocatalytic air purifiers.
- April 2003:
- Established VSA in China.
- May 2003:
- Registered in the environmental conservation activity "Clean Partner" promoted by Hachinohe City.
- April 2004:
- Received the Award for Excellence at the 16th Contest for New Technologies and New Products of Small and Midsize Business for photocatalytic air purifiers.
- May 2004:
- Acquired the disinfection equipment certification of the Ministry of Health in China for the "Refreshing Breeze from Green Forest" series.
- November 2004:
- Received the Award for Invention Encouragement in the Tohoku District for Hikari Kobo.
- April 2005:
- Received the 2004 Aomori Industrial Design Award for negative ion generators of inti series.
- May 2005:
- Enlarged the floor area of the Optoelectronic Plant.
- June 2005:
- Launched the simplified level checker for terrestrial digital broadcasting.
- March 2006:
- "F-shower" air cleaner module was on sale.
- May 2006:
- Awarded as the best medium-small 300 companies by the Ministry of Economy.
- September 2006:
- Air Cleaner, Bio Micron, One-seg receiver module, Air cleaner module were launched.
- January 2007:
- Received the Award for Bio Micron with Aomori Industrial Design Prize.
- March 2007:
- One of the engineers was certified as an industrial master by Aomori prefecture.
- July 2007:
- Photocatalytic air cleaning equipment delivered in the smoking room in the 700 series New bullet train of JR Tokai Co., Ltd..
- April 2008:
- Scallop shell disinfection agent were on sale.
- August 2010:
- LED downlight was on mass production and on sale.
- June 2012:
- Started sales of Stationary Air Cleaner BM-S103A of the "Bio Micron" series.