1989 – start of business as a scientific-technical center: development and production of a line of spectral instruments and solid-state pulsed lasers for scientific research.
1994 – investments of Tokyo Instruments Inc. to the company’s business and foundation of the Belorussian-Japanese Joint Venture «SOLAR TII».
1998 – development of confocal Raman microscope Nanofinder® in collaboration with Japanese partner, entering the market with Nanofinder® – the first device of the company and the second commercial device in the world.
2001 – presentation of the first-ever commercial Laser elemental analyzer LEA-S500® based on LIBS technology, in the analytical equipment market.
2004 – development and launch of the 2nd generation automated Raman microscopes Nanofinder® S and the 1st in the world commercial confocal microscope CARS.
2005 – participation in the project on creation of Large Hadron Collider at CERN: design and manufacture of the 41 beam profile monitors for the accelerator.
2010 – launch of the high-end OEM spectrophotometer ESCORT SM for monitoring of optical coating deposition in the vacuum sputtering chambers of various types.
2011 – development and launch of a new line of lasers – diode-pumped pulsed Nd:YAG lasers of the DF series (DPSS lasers).
2012 – moving to own premises. Re-branding of the company: JV “SOLAR TII” has been re-named to SOL instruments Ltd. Launch of a new series of 3D scanning laser Raman microscopes/spectrometers – the Confotec series.
2013 – launch of a new line of compact and cost-effective Raman confocal microscopes of the Confotec® MR series for routine measurements.
2018 – presentation of the GEN II intelligent spectral equipment; upgrade of the Imaging monochromators-spectrographs of the MS Series.
2019 – development and launch of a new commercial confocal Raman microscope Confotec® Duo based on Raman scattering technique.
2020 – participation in the innovation project of the European Union under the name Real time nano CHAracterization ReLatEd techNioGiEsS (acronym CHALLENGES) within the program HORIZON 2020 (2020-2023).

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