History of Kansai Centrifugal Separator Manufacturing

100 years of history

March 1918	Kansai Hydro-Extractor Manufacturing Works was founded at the company’s current location of 1-8-8 Sagisu, Fukushima-ku, Osaka. The Works designed, built, and sold various centrifugal separators.
April 1941	As a manufacturer of chemical industry machines encouraged by the Osaka prefectural government and as a factory under the control of the Navy Ministry, the company primarily built KS- and D-type ultra centrifugal separators for ship fuel purification. It also sold various centrifugal separators and chemical industry machines.
December 1952	After restructuring as described above, the company continued to design, build, and sell KS-type ultra centrifugal separators and NV-type ship fuel purifiers.
August 1971	Began building horizontal continuous centrifugal separators.
May 1977	Improved the technology used to build the KS-type super-high-speed centrifugal separator and developed the U series of high-performance centrifugal separators.
December 1981	Opened a Tokyo sales office (in Chiyoda ward).
March 1989	Improved the KS type to respond to customer requests.
April 1998	Began making development efforts to boost the performance of the U series of the KS type.
April 2001	Launched the U2 series of the KS type.
October 2012	Began working on development of the U3 series of the KS type.
December 2017	Began working on development of an improved lower structure of the KS type.