April 2017
VOLCANO participates in "Japan Pavilion" at the Exhibition, "Sea Asia 2017".

VOLCANO participates in "Japan Pavilion" in the exhibition “Sea Asia 2017” held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, from 25th to 27th April 2017.
VOLCANO welcomes the respective visitors at "Japan Pavilion" “B2-S01 & B2-T01”,"Sea Asia 2017".

For more information, please see "Press Information".

Gas/Oil combination burner
“Vignis-mini”

Gas Valve Unit for
“Vignis-mini”

March 2017
VOLCANO participates "Japanese Shipbuilding & Ship Machinery Seminar in Sea Asia 2017" conducted by JSMEA in Singapore on 26th April.

VOLCANO participates "Japanese Shipbuilding & Ship Machinery Seminar in Sea Asia 2017" conducted by JSMEA in Singapore on 26th April.
VOLCANO will hold a presentation on "Solution for Environment and Efficiency by utilizing VOLCANO products".

Date and time; 13：15～19:00 26th April, 2017

VOLCANO's presentation; around 16:50 (10 minutes)

Angsana Room 3E & 3F on 3rd floor Conference Room
in Sands Expo and Convention Centre
10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956

Please resister from following URL.

URL; http://www.jsmea.or.jp/en/seminar/singapore/

JSMEA's invitation; http://www.jsmea.or.jp/en/seminar/singapore/Seminarfor%20Invitation%20_final_.pdf


For more information, please see "Press Information".

March 2017
VOLCANO participates the Exhibition, "Gastech Japan 2017".

VOLCANO participates the "JSMEA" booth in the exhibition "Gastech Japan 2017" held at Makuhari Messe,Japan, 4th to 7th April 2017.
VOLCANO welcomes the respective visitors at "JSMEA" booth “5405” in "Hall 6","Gastech Japan 2017".

For more information, please see "Press Information".

November 2016
VOLCANO participates "Japanese Ship Machinery & Equipment Seminar in Taiwan on 17th Novenbar" conducted by JSMEA in Taipei on 17th November.

VOLCANO participates "Japanese Ship Machinery & Equipment Seminar in Taiwan on 17th Novenbar" conducted by JSMEA in Taipei on 17th November.

VOLCANO will hold a presentation on "Solution for Environment and Efficiency by utilizing VOLCANO products".

Date and time; 14:00 - 20:00 17th November, 2016
VOLCANO's presentation; Around 16:30 at Room "A"
Venue;AMBASSADOR HOTEL TAIPEI 63, Section 2, Zhongshan North Road, Taipei 10446, Taiwan

Please resister from following URL.
http://www.jsmea.or.jp/en/seminar/taiwan/

September 2016
VOLCANO participates the Exhibition, “SMM HANBURG 2016”.

VOLCANO exhibits the products at “SMM HANBURG 2016” held at Hamburg Exhibition Centre and Congress Centrum,　Germany, 6th to 9th September 2016. VOLCANO welcomes the respective visitors at our exhibition booth “619.16” in Japan Pavilion, Hall B7.

For more information, please see "Press Information".

July 2016
Car Ferries "IZUMI / HIBIKI" equipped with Volcano Waste Oil and Bilge Concentrator BILCON-X have been awarded the best prize of “Ship of the year 2015”

Car Ferries "IZUMI / HIBIKI"*1 (built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD.) of Hankyu Ferry Co., Ltd. (Fukuoka / Japan) have won the best prize of “Ship of the year 2015”*2
These Car Ferries are equipped with Volcano Waste Oil and Bilge Concentrator BILCON-X*3
We are pleased to be involved in the brilliant project of IZUMI and HIBIKI

*1: IZUMI and HIBIKI are car ferries have biggest cargo transportation capacity in Seto Inland Sea and operate between Kitakyushu (Shin-Moji) and Osaka (Izumi-Otsu). It achieved over 20% energy saving by many new technologies as well as strengthening car transportation capacity. It has comfortable passenger cabins with high degree of quietness. It’s expected to decrease environmental impact and to contribute to local economy development. Quoted from a web page of Ship of the year Introductions 2015
(https://www.jasnaoe.or.jp/en/soy/soy2015.html)

*2: “Ship of the year”:
The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers awards a prize to the most practical, artistic and highest social responsibility vessel built in Japan every single year.

*3: Waste Oil and Bilge Concentrator BILCON-X:
This is a system to concentrate waste oil contain water and oily bilge water efficiently by humidification and evaporation method (low temperature humidification) that are generated at vessels. It significantly reduces a cost and workload to treat and unload waste oil and oily bilge water. In addition the humidification and evaporation method is completely closed-system and it does not discharge any processed waste oil and concentrated water to the ocean from a vessel. It helps a vessel to reduce an impact on the environment.

Car Ferries "IZUMI / HIBIKI"

Waste Oil and Bilge Concentrator BILCON-X

July 2016
LNG Fueled tugboat “Sakigake” equips Volcano Boil Off Gas (BOG) combustion unit MECS-GCU has been awarded a prize for advanced technology of “Ship of the year 2015”

LNG Fueled tugboat “Sakigake”"*1 (built by Keihin Dock Co., Ltd.) of Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo / Japan) has won a prize for advanced technology of “Ship of the year 2015”.*2 “Sakigake” is equipped with Volcano BOG combustion unit MECS-GCU *3
We are pleased to be involved in the brilliant project of LNG Fueled tugboat “Sakigake”

*1: LNG Fueled tugboat “Sakigake” The new tug is equipped with dual-fuel engines that can use either of LNG and diesel oil, depending on conditions. Compared with conventional tugboats that use marine diesel oil, Sakigake emits about 30 percent less carbon dioxide, 80 percent less nitrogen oxide, and absolutely no sulfur oxide when using LNG as fuel
Quoted from an article on Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha web page
(http://www.nyk.com/english/release/3710/004066.html)

*2: “Ship of the year”: The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers awards a prize to the most practical, artistic and highest social responsibility vessel built in Japan every single year

*3: BOG combustion unit MECS-GCU: This system safely incinerates BOG and vaporized gas when bunkering on LNG Fueled vessels. Exceeded BOG and Vaporized Gas should be processed by incineration or reliquefaction for safety.

LNG Fueled tugboat “Sakigake”

BOG combustion unit MECS-GCU

July 2016
Added new article in "Information about a product", titled as "New maintenance method in a stream of Slow-Steam"

VOLCANO announced new article in "Information about a product"
NEW ARTICLE titled as "New maintenance method in a stream of Slow-Steam" and "Recommended spare parts for Slow-steam, MJII burner, VJP burner and VJ burner"

July 2016
VOLCANO participates "Indonesia-Japan Ship Machinery & Equipment Business Matching Forum" conducted by JSMEA in Jakarta on 27th July.

VOLCANO participates "Indonesia-Japan Ship Machinery & Equipment Business Matching Forum" conducted by JSMEA in Jakarta on 27th July.
VOLCANO will hold a presentation on "Solution for Environment and Efficiency by utilizing VOLCANO products".

Date and time; 10:30AM - 17:00PM 27th July, 2016

VOLCANO's presentation; Around 13:30PM

Intercontinental Hotel Jakarta　MidPlaza
Jl. Jendral Sudirman Kav. 10-11, Jakarta 10220, Indonesia

Please resister from following URL.

URL:http://www.jsmea.or.jp/en/seminar/indonesia/

April 2016
VOLCANO launched Oil/Gas Combination Burner named “Vignis-mini”.

VOLCANO Co.,Ltd. developed an “Oil/Gas Combination burner for LNG Fueled vessel” and has launched “Vignis-mini” as new product.
“Vignis-mini” for LNG Fueled vessels which are expected to increase can be installed in boilers. “Vignis-mini” has four types of burners as its product line-up. The types of Vignis-mini cover the range of “Boiler evaporation 1t/h to 3t/h”.

The name of “Vignis-mini";
Vignis = “V” + “ignis”
“V”means “VOLCANO” as our brand
“ignis” means flame in Latin.
“Vignis series” has two products.
One is “Vignis-mini” and another is “Vignis”.
“Vignis-mini” is for “Boiler-evaporation 1t/h to 3t/h” and “Vignis” is for “Boiler-evaporation 4t/h to 10t/h”.

For more information, please see "Press Information" and "Brochure".

Main Burner

Gas ValveUnit

April 2016
VOLCANO participates the Exhibition, “SEA JAPAN 2016”.

VOLCANO exhibits the products at “SEA JAPAN 2016” held at TOKYO BIG SIGHT, from April 13th to 15th. VOLCANO welcomes the respected visitors at the booth “JPN-24” in Japan Pavilion.

For more information, please see "Press Information" and "Site of SEA JAPAN".

October 2015
China International Industry Fair

It decides to participate Japan Booth organized by JETRO of China International Industry Fair held in November, Shanghai.
We expect the continued expansion of Chinese Environmental Market.

May 2015
Certificate of incinerator

Receiving many inquiry about the type-approval for incinerators, we explain as following.

[Type-approval for incinerators which were manufactured before or in the year 2000]
Incinerators which were manufactured before or in the year 2000 has no type-approval-certificate bacause at that time any type-apprvoval was unnecessary.
Instead of type-approval certificate, "manufaturing certificate" can be issued by VOLCANO.
Please use the form " http://www.volcano.co.jp/english/contact/index.php?m=1 " and fill the text "need the manufacture certificate" in the field of free text and fill correctly in the fields required in the inquiry form.

April 2015
VOLCANO products are appeared in JSMEA's web site "Japanese marine equipment supporting for OFFSHORE".

VOLCANO products for Offshore are appeared in JSMEA's web site "Japanese marine equipment supporting for OFFSHORE".
"Japanese marine equipment supporting for OFFSHORE" is also available in JSMEA's activities, such as JSMEA's booth in "Offshore Technology Conference".
JSMEA; Japan Ship Machinery & Equipment Association

VOLCANO products published in the site and the brochure：
Gas / Oil Combination Burners For Main boilers(Type SFFG Ⅱ）&
Gas /Oil Combination Burners For Auxiliary boilers(Type SFUGX “Vignis”)
Shipboard Incinerator Type VIM/VIRM with IMO type approval certificate and CE marking
Homogenizer HCR type
Bilge Concentrator "Bilcon-X"

April 2014
VOLCANO will release a new auxiliary boiler burner called “Vignis”, the SFUGX series, for LNG fuel vessels.

VOLCANO will add an oil/gas combination burner for LNG fuel vessels, which are expected to increase, to our product line. The brand-new burner called “Vignis” will be released in April.
Equipped with the oil/gas dual combustion mode as well as the oil, gas mono-fuel combustion modes, “Vignis” will allow for energy-saving operation.
“Vignis” will be on display at SEA JAPAN 2014, held at TOKYO BIG SIGHT, from April 9th to 11th.
Please come and see it for yourself.

Click here for more information on “Vignis”.

September 2013
Volcano developed hydrogen fuel burner and delivered it in 2013 !!

Volcano delivered the burner for which hydrogen generated in the customer's factory was consumed as fuel of boiler in September of 2013 and completed trial test successfully.
The fuel of this burner is 100% low pressure hydrogen, which was converted from oil burner originally equipped with the existing industrial water pipe type boiler.

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.

March, 2011
VOLCANO Co.,Ltd.

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.

“Trinity Arrow”

SFFGII-405
oil/gas combination burner

On May 13, 2009
We have published an ariticle titled as “Warning for using an immitation of parts for Volcano’s burner in Volcano’s Service News”

Technical Information

ON SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2008, VOLCANO CO., LTD CELEBRATED THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION.

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.

Masaaki Okihara
President

June 2008
Volcano’s Burner Model MJ22-180 has been installed on “Brasil Maru” ( World’s Largest iron ore Carrier) named “Ship of the Year” for 2007.

“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 320,000 tons 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.

“BRASIL MARU”

MJ22-180
FULLY AUTOMATIC OIL BURNER

March 2008
“Technical Information” is added in our WEB site.
Please utilize this part for safety operation and keeping good performance.

Technical Information

December 2007
Volcano’s burner type, “SFFGTR” gas/oil cpmbination burner, has been installed on the biggest LNG carrier “Trinity Arrow” with membrane tank system (154,900m³) built in Japan.

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.

“Trinity Arrow”

oil/gas combination burner

October 2007
“LNG DREAM”, installing Volcano’s oil/gas combination burner, has gained special prize by “Ship of the Year 2006.”

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”

“LNG DREAM”

oil/gas combination burner

March 2007
Got twenty one (21) units of the low NOx gas & oil burners order for Saudi SABIC (150T/Hx2, 200T/Hx5) from Seen Tec, South Korea.

July 2006
The new combustion test facilities having the maximum burning capacity of 2,050 m³/h for 13A town gas or 2,000 kg/h for oil with the most modern measuring instrumentation were built in Sanda Plant.

Message from President

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.

Masaaki Okihara
President

June, 2005
By merging of the Inspection Section of the Production Headquarters, the Quality Control Office raised to the Quality Assurance Department.

March 2005.
Completed the joint development program of the next-generation type ultra-low NOx gas burners for industrial boilers with Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

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.

The origin of the company name “VOLCANO”

As you already know, the name came from the “volcano” of English language.
If the word is changed to adjectives, “volcanic” or adverb, “volcanically”, the meaning changes slightly, namely, “violent” or “fiercely”.
The name relates to the fire god “VULCUN” that appears in the Roman Myth. At the north-east side of the famous Sicilian Island, there is a famous VULCAN island among many Aeolian Islands. This was the origin of Volcano of English.
The first president of our company used this Volcano as the registered trade name of the low pressure heavy oil burner we initially developed.
However, its pronunciation slightly differs from that of English. We imagine that our first president pronounced the English name Volcano differently, probably in Roman letters.