History 1950-1969
| 1951 | - Pioneered Conversions of ship's coal fired boilers to heavy oil boilers. |
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| 1953 | - Heavy oil-fired burner for National Railway steam locomotives "Limited express KAMOME" completed. |
| 1954 | - Compact, Light weight, high efficiency fuel oil heater developed. - Lloyd welding approved for the factory Granted. - First Japanese oil spray particle size measuring device completed and measured practical heavy oil droplet. |
| 1955 | - Ideal burner for glass melting furnace completed. |
| 1956 | - Y-jet type steam atomizing burner completed. |
| 1958 | - Submerged combustion system with high duty burner completed. |
Limited express KAMOME
Atomizer
Submerged combustion burner
| 1960 | - Senior Managing Director, Mr. Tetsuya Okihara, assumes office as President. - Main factory completed. |
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| 1961 | - VOLCANO Technical Laboratory established. Capital increased to 10 million yen. - Factory qualified for class 1 pressure container production. |
| 1962 | - Technical collaboration with ABC Co., Ltd. of England signed which led to the production of the Suspended Flame Burner. |
| 1963 | - Company name changed to VOLCANO Co,.Ltd. - Chairman, Mr. Benji Okihara, awarded Maritime contributor. |
| 1964 | - Technical collaboration on Double Toroidal Burner with Urquhart Eng. Co., Ltd. of England signed. |
| 1965 | - Merged Nagoya office to main head office. |
| 1966 | - Introduction of the profit center approach for enhancement of management culture. - Automatic burner installed on world's largest tanker "Idemitsu Maru". - Chairman, Mr. Benji Okihara, awarded the Fourth Order of Merit. |
| 1967 | - Successful development of Top Firing burner. |
| 1968 | - Entrusted with the task of developing and manufacturing high heat release burner for naval vessels of Defence Ministry. - Air flow pattern experimental facilities using water model established. |
| 1969 | - Inert gas generator developed. |
Technical tie-up with ABC company
Suspended flame burner
Toroidal burner
Top firing burner test furnace
Inertial gas generator