On July 18, 2013 National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnical Institute" was visited by the company “Rigaku Corporation” (Japan) delegation headed by the president Hikara Shimur. It is not the first visit - last year the Educational scientific center of the structural analysis of NTUU "KPI" - "RIGAKU" was solemnly opened at the university, the equipment for which was provided to the university by this world famous company.
Therefore after a meeting with the university’s management representatives of the company, the work of this laboratory during the period since September, 2012 till June, 2013 was examined. Corresponding presentation was shown for them by the head of the laboratory - professor Miroslav Karpets. Certainly, the delegation "Rigaku Corporation" also examined the laboratory in which the work hasn’t stopped even per one day, even during the summer time.
During a general meeting with the university’s management, along with the rector of NTUU "KPI", the academician of NAS of Ukraine Mikhailo Zgurovsky, the first vice rector, the academician of NAS of Ukraine, Yuriy Yakimenko, the vice rector for international relations, the corresponding member of NAS of Ukraine, Sergey Sidorenko, the director of the Ukrainian-Japanese center of NTUU "KPI" Osama Midzutani and others, they discussed the prospects of development of educational scientific center of the structural analysis of NTUU "KPI" - "RIGAKU" and further cooperation between NTUU "KPI" and the company "Rigaku Corporation".
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The RIGAKU corporation ("RIGAKU") is the world leader in the field of x-ray analytical and industrial technology. It wins the first place on outputs and quality of products in the world. The corporation makes the x-ray equipment (diffractometers, spectrometers, etc.), intended for the analysis of metals, alloys and minerals, quality control of the analysis of crystals and biological materials (including researches of a genome of the person ) . Corporation is the leader of the x-ray analytical equipment sold in the markets of the USA, Japan, the countries of South East Asia and South America (Brazil) which is used by all largest industrial companies of the world.
Among devices which are made by RIGAKU corporation, there is also a full line of x-ray diffractometers. Their characteristic feature is the universality allowing on one device to solve very wide range of tasks for which decision efforts of several laboratories earlier were required. The main objectives of these devices is definition of phase structure, the structural analysis, the analysis of textures, definition of type and quantity of defects in products to, in process and after their operation and etc.