About us
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- Company Name
- Farmroid Co., Ltd.
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- Location
- Headquarters (HQ)
3-22-4 Funado, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0041, Japan
Manufacturing R & D Collaboration Center No. 2 Building 203
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- Date of Establishment
- November 11, 2013
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- Representative
- Kazuki Iimura (Visiting Researcher, Nihon University School of Medicine)
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- Technical Advisor
- Prof. Tomomasa Sato (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
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- Capital
- 11 million yen
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- Business Content
- UVC LED related R&D and Sales for Virus Inactivation
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- Patent Application
- Japanese Patent Application No. 2020-106175
History
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- Nov, 2013
- Established an agricultural production corporation in Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture for research of agricultural technology
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- Dec, 2013
- Entrusted with high value-added vegetable experiment farm business from Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture
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- April, 2019
- Research on pest control technology for agricultural applications using ultraviolet-B (UVB) irradiation
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- April, 2020
- Announcement of UV irradiation robot "UVBuster" for medical institutions
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- May, 2020
- Headquarters moved to Itabashi Ward, under industry-academia-government collaboration project with Itabashi Ward / Nihon University School of Medicine
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- July, 2020
- Launch of UV irradiation robot "UVBuster"
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- Sept, 2020
- Demonstration of inactivation of emerging coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) with the collaboration of Itabashi Ward, Nihon University School of Medicine and RIKEN
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- March, 2021
- Concluded a joint research agreement with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- March, 2021
- Concluded a joint research agreement with Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- July, 2021
- Research and Development of Far-UVC LED panel for virus inactivation is adopted by NEDO under "Material Innovation Technology Leading Research Program"
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- July, 2021
- The mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 inactivation by ultraviolet-C (UVC) irradiation is published in the online version of “Scientific Reports”
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- Oct, 2021
- “Polarization-Dependent Hole Generation in 222 nm-Band AlGaN-based Far-UVC LED: A Way Forward to the Epi-Growers of MBE and MOCVD” is published in the online version of “Journal of Materials Chemistry C”
