March, 2011
Donations for the Victims of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake

We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to those who lost their lives in the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami as well as those suffering from the disaster.
In order to help the victims to recover from such a national disaster and with the reconstruction work in the afflicted areas, we decided to make donations as follows.

1.Japanese Red Cross Society  1,000,000 yen

2.The Nippon Foundation  100,000 yen

3.Kinki Marine Equipment Association 100,000 yen

In addition to the above, our employees are making voluntarily donations.

June 2009
Volcano`s gas/oil combination burner type "SFFGII " has been installed on the vessel named as the ship of the year for 2008.
(LNG carrier"Trinity Arrow" with the biggest tank capacity154,900m3 built in Japan)

This vessel has the biggest membrane tank system(154,900m3) built in Japan
and is the first LNG carrier by Imabari Shipbuilding.

This　vessel is powered by steam-turnbine boiler plant(Kawasaki-made)
on which Volcano`s gas/oil combination burner type SFFGII-405 is
installed and contribute to her safe sailing.

Volcano Service News

Message from President

We wish to thank you all for the last 80 years, and look forward to your continued support.

It was in September 1928 that the founder of our company Mr. Benji Okihara developed the first Japanese-made low pressure air jet oil burners and established "the Osaka Heavy Oil Furnace Company. "
In 1943, the company was reorganized to a joint stock company "Osaka Heavy Oil Furnace Manufacturing Co."
In 1963, the company's name was changed to the present name of "Volcano Co., Ltd."

We have the pleasure to announce that on September 3rd, 2008 the company celebrated the 80th anniversary of its foundation.
I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone and especially to our clients for their continued warm support of our achievements.
At the same time, I pay my respects and thanks to each member of staff in this long history of the company for their courageous and wise actions as well as the efforts rendered.

Through the 80 years of devotion to the combustion/heat decomposition technology, in amazingly evolved industries in Japan, Volcano has been playing an important role in the modernization of Japanese industries and in the growth of the shipping and shipbuilding industries with the expansion of the worldwide logistics operations,and also in promotion of a comfortable and prosperous recycling-based society where importance is placed on the environment and energy conservation.

Especially from the beginning of 21st century, much attention has been given to the issue of a food shortage owing to a population increase, tightness of energy resources and global environmental conservation.
With this background, it is expected in the industries that the combustion related field will develop such sophisticated products that the four parameters of high efficiency, energy saving, low environmental load, and recycling are well balanced and closely integrated with a high quality service that is capable of backing them up.
Towards the 100th anniversary of the company's foundation, to meet their expectation, Volcano is determined to strive for the development of new combustion technology as "Clean-Tech"

Engraving on our mind as the combustion engineering company that this very memorable the 80th anniversary is an important entrance to a challenging new era, we are desirous of further success by responding to the needs of the new era.
I would be most grateful to you all for your cooperation and warm encouragement to continue over the coming years.

"Brasil Maru"(the world`s larget iron ore carrier)linking
between Japan and Brasil built by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. ,
has been selected as the Ship of the Year for 2007.

The vessel with the ｄeadweight tonnage of 320,000tons is
the largest iron ore carrier and has never been constructed
in Japan.
By doing the shuttle service between Brasil and Japan,
the annual transport capacity is expected to increase and
meet the uprising demand of the iron ore in Japan.

On this vessel, Volcano`s fully automatic oil bunrer type "MJ22-180"
is installed and contribute to generation of heat energy and safe operation.

Volcano Service News

As LNG carrier with membrane tank system built in Japan,
the biggest one with capacity 154,900m3 has been
built by Imabari shipbuilding／koyo dockyard and will be
delivered early 2008.

This vessel is powered by steam-turbine boiler plant(Kawasaki- made)
on which Volcano`s"SFFGTR" oil/gas combination burner
is installed and will contribute to her safe sailing.

This LNG vessel named as "LNG DREAM"(145,000m3) has been built up by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation and delivered to Osaka Gas Co.,Ltd September 2006. This vessel is currently transporting LNG between Japan and West Australia.
LNG tanks painted by Jimy Ohnish(famous contemporary artist) has attracted the attention of many people and has been taken up on many T.V, channels and newspapers
Volcano`s oil/gas combination burners are installed on the main boilers of the steam turbine propulsion plant of this "LNG DREAM"

It was in September 1928 that the founder of our company Mr. Benji Okihara developed
the first Japanese-made low pressure air jet oil burners and established Osaka Heavy Oil Furnace Company, the predecessor of the present Volcano Co., Ltd.

Since its inception, Volcano’s combustion technology has advanced and its applications have diversified to include [Burning Units and Systems] producing efficient heat energy with low emission rates for powering and heating process plants, and [Environmental Protection Plants] for disposing of complex pollutants by the incineration technology of heat decomposition. These products backed up by the [Technical Client Service] have been widely adopted in amazingly evolved industries in Japan. Through these installations, Volcano has been playing an important role in the modernization of Japanese industries and in the growth of the shipping and shipbuilding industries with the expansion of the worldwide logistics operations, and also in promotion of a comfortable and prosperous recycling-based society where environment and energy conservation are demanded to be pursued.

I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone and especially to our clients for their continued warm support of our achievements.

In the combustion related field in the 21st century, the industries expect to have such
sophisticated products that the three parameters of efficiency, energy saving and
low environmental load are closely integrated, with a high quality service capabilitybacking them up.

Toward the 80th and further toward the 100th anniversary of the company’s foundation, to meet the expectation of the industries, Volcano is determined to strive for the development of new combustion technology to further contribute to the future recycling?based society demanding economically and environmentally optimized energy use for every heat source.

I would be most grateful to you all if your cooperation and warm encouragement
would continue over the year to come.

We succeeded in the development of the next-generation type ultra-low NOx gas burners “FX-G series” in order to cope with a possible tightening of environmental regulations in urban areas, and put them on the market.
This burner itself offers the Nox emission of less than 30ppm, which is the lowest level in Japan and sustaining a high turndown ratio of 10:1.
In addition to this environmentally friendly features, the high turndown ratio of 10:1
leads to higher boiler efficiency and lower fuel consumption.