About us

Frontics currently provides instrumented indentation test equipment and test servers to about 80 companies,
including leading domestic and foreign companies, research institutes, universities, and public institutions.

History

  • 2019

  • 12

    Submitted a standard application for Chinese group standard (export/import product inspection field) for IIT

    11

    Applied for the admission and approved as a Family Company of the KIST K-Club (Corporation body changed to K-Club)

    10

    IIT is approved by the US PHSMSA/DOT to be included in the New regulation-Transmission rule(10.01.09)

    09

    Passed PHMSA DOT regulation “Gas Transmission Rule”

    09

    A method for evaluating residual stress using instrumented indentation technique is published in the AWS Handbook of the American Welding Society

    05

    Supplied AIS3000HD to the Nuclear Power Institute of China for the first time

  • 2018

  • 11

    IIT is officially published in the American Welding Society Handbook as a method of evaluating residual stress

    09

    Proposal for measuring residual stress via IIT for ISO Standards (ISO TC164 SC3)

    05

    As the first domestic company, we supplied AIS3000HD equipment to the Culham Science Center of the British Atomic Energy Agency.

    03

    Relocated to Seocho office building

    01

    AIS3000HD supplied to UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  • 2017

  • 11

    Approval of IIT ASME Code case N-881 (11.02.17)

    05

    Conducted a TNBR demonstration at the Malaysian State Electric Power Research Institute

  • 2016

  • 12

    Registered a patent for a portable tester fixing device (domestic)

    registered a patent for an interfacial bonding force evaluation method (domestic)

    10

    Registered a patent for portable testing device (domestic)

    registered a patent for indentation tester (domestic)

    07

    Patent application for measuring method of fracture toughness using continuous indentation technique (domestic)

    Frontics Co., Ltd. signed agency contract with NSST of Japan

    Frontics Co., Ltd. signed agency contract with APN Co., Ltd.

    05

    Applied for a patent for portable verification tester for measuring instrument equipped with shielding device

    04

    Registered "FRONTICS" trademark (Russia)

    registered "AIS" trademark (Russia)

    03

    Demonstration held at Saudi Aramco, a state-owned oil company in Saudi Arabia

    registered the "FRONTICS" logo (Russia)

  • 2015

  • 12

    "FRONTICS" trademark registration completed (USA)

    10

    Applied for overseas patents for portable surface inspection and electrolytic polishing devices (US, China)

    08

    FRONTICS Inc. signed an MOU with EMEC of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and CMTAC of Seoul National University

    applied for a patent for residual stress evaluation method using instrumented indentation technique (Europe)

    05

    Completed the development of high durability indentation tester High durability-AIS

    03

    Signed a contract with a COBALT CORPORATION partner in charge of Saudi Arabia

  • 2014

  • 12

    "FRONTICS", "AIS" trademark application (US, China, Russia)

    09

    Convergence·combined portable micro indentation tester

    Hybrid Micro-AIS(F) developed and released

    06

    Registered a patent in Korea for a method of calculating yield strength and tensile strength using variables of instrumented spherical indentation technique

    03

    Patent registration of residual stress evaluation method using instrumented indentation technique in Korea

  • 2013

  • 08

    Signed a contract with Hebron Star partners in Indonesia and Malaysia (Korea)

    06

    Signed a contract as a partner company with Damul Industry in charge of the Middle East (Korea)

    signed a contract as a partner company with Beijing Chunchuyangguangbo Science and Technology Co., Ltd. in charge of China (China)

    02

    Proposal/application for measuring residual stress via IIT for ASME Code (Record #13-526)

  • 2012

  • 04

    Established overseas corporation Frontics America (USA)

    03

    Signed a contract as a partner with Fore in charge of Turkey (Turkey)

    signed a contract as a partner with DSL for Europe (UK)

    01

    Signed a contract with MinusK in the US as a Korean partner for product sales

  • 2011

  • 12

    ASME-instrumented indentation technique BPVC Sec.IX Code Case published (Code Case 2703)

    11

    Selected as a promising export small business

    09

    Signed a contract as a partner with WGAM in charge of the Middle East (Seoul)

    04

    Signed a contract with Conus in charge of North America as a partner (USA)

    signed a contract with LPR Global in charge of North America as a partner (Canada)

    launched Nano-AIS (The first in Korea to launch an IIT-based material property measurement equipment on a nanoscale)

    02

    First delivery of aviation equipment [Boeing (USA), AIS2100]

  • 2010

  • 11

    Launched automatic instrumented indentation tester (AIT-U)

    09

    Registered as a U.S. federal government procurement CCR vendor