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XPS International, Inc. was founded in Japan in June 1994. At this time, its main products are XPS Spectral Data-Bank systems which consist of XPS spectral data and the various softwares used to process and analyze the spectral data-banks. The data-bank system currently consists of more than 20,000 spectra with more being added monthly. XPS International Inc. also specializes in technical training, technical seminars, technical support and products useful for XPS analyses.
The XPS Spectral Data-Bank system is the result of 10 years of research and planning by the founder and is designed to help scientists, engineers, problem solvers, and teachers who need reliable XPS spectral data for the development of products and the education of students.
XPS International Inc. is an OEM supplier of spectral data-banks to the VG Scientific Company in the UK and has academic and industrial customers such as the University of Washington, the Intel Corporation, and the Boeing Airplane Company in the USA.
XPS International Inc. has sales representatives in the USA and the UK who are serving the needs of XPS scientists and engineers in those regions of the world. In Japan, XPS International Inc. has yearly sales amounting to more than 20 million Yen.
The founder of XPS International Inc. has a Ph.D. in chemistry and has been in the business of XPS since 1983, when he joined Surface Science Laboratories, a public chemical analysis laboratory that gave birth to the popular Surface Science Instrument X-Probe XPS system. He has published various papers in the field of XPS and has presented seminars on applied and practical aspects of XPS. He is an active member in the International Standards Organization (ISO) on Surface Chemical Analysis which is known as Technical Committee (TC) 201 and is a member of the Surface Analysis Society of Japan (SASJ). For SASJ, he serves as a technical consultant by providing advice for the development of the SASJ spectral data-bank system. The founder was issued a patent for a technique called Laser-XPS and is listed in the Marques book of Who's Who in the World.
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