History of HORIBA 2010s
Accelerate faster reaching the foundation 60th anniversary
Atsushi Horiba receives the Légion d’honneur from the French government.
HORIBA Instruments (Singapore) Pte Ltd. in Hanoi (Vietnam) is established.
New plant in Shanghai (China) is completed.
HORIBA starts the new Mid-Long Term Management Plan (MLMAP).
Water quality analyzers, LAQUA, are released.
HORIBA relocates Tokyo office due to strengthening domestic sales.
HORIBA Instruments (Singapore) Pte Ltd. in Jakarta (Indonesia) is established.
HORIBA restructures the North America subsidiaries to accelerate faster and efficient of North America business.
Next generation monitor exhaust gas analyzer, MEXA-ONE, is released.
Blood cell count and CRP measuring equipment is carrying out a full scale expansion into India.
Aso Factory, the biggest factory of HORIBA Group, is completed.
HORIBA (China) Trading Co.,Ltd., Shanghai Technical Center is established.
HORIBA opens its brand new 7500m² European research centre near Paris, France close to the renown French Ecole Polytechnique Campus.
HORIBA aquires U.S. company Cameron's process analytical product line.
HORIBA concludes transfer agreements with TOPCON CORPORATION for electron beam technology.
HORIBA Advanced Technology Center (provisional name) is established on the head office of HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.
HORIBA agrees on joint research with Tsinghua University in China for environmental monitoring technology.
HORIBA participates in the project among government, industry, and academia in France, and support for next generation photovoltaic cell development.
Industry's first transportable glucose analyzer for medical professionals with BluetoothⓇ is released.
Japan's first plasma emission controller for the highly functional film deposition equipment is developed.
HORIBA aquires Photon Technology International to expand its reach in the biomedical field.
Reagent factory for hematology test starts running for the first time in India.
HORIBA accelerates products supply and local productions of Medical equipment for the first time in China.
US headquarter is moved.
HORIBA gatheres business bases in order to enhance the business supervisory function at the first place of overseas operation.
New factory in Brazil is completed.
HORIBA (China) Trading Co., Ltd. is relocated to a university, the research institute accumulation district.
Engineering center is established on the premises of HORIBA INSTRUMENTS (SHANGHAI) CO., Ltd.’s factory.
HORIBA’s state-of-the-art technology center is completed.
HORIBA merges two Korean subsidiaries to strengthen cooperation in our automotive business.
HORIBA accelerates the synergistic effects between exhaust gas and automotive testing.
HORIBA acquires UK based company MIRA Ltd to expand its vehicle development and testing business.
The new development building of France’s HORIBA ABX is completed to enhance product development capabilities with entry into new areas of the market in mind.
The industry’s smallest A3-size particle analyzer is released.
Stack-gas analysis system for thermal power generation is released to support the next generation of high performance thermal power generation with twice the previous pressure resistance.
The world’s first* micro-sampling pH monitor is developed. It successfully reduces the required sample amount by 99%.
*Based on a survey by HORIBA
The new "HORIBA Stained Glass Award" is established to recognize *HORIBARIANS with scintillating individualism that charms in a variety of areas.
*The word "HORIBARIAN" refers to each person working in the HORIBA Group, including part timers and contract employees.
Chemical solution monitor that can measure up to 8 individual constituents simultaneously –the world’s highest* is released.
*Based on a survey by HORIBA
HORIBA formulates New Mid-Long Term Management Plan "MLMAP 2020."
HORIBA decides to centralize its Group’s water quality and liquid measurement businesses, aiming at accelerating product development with the close ties to the market.
HORIBA BIWAKO E-HARBOR goes into full operation.
Aiming for creativity, high quality and speed in order to innovative manufacturing.
HORIBA concludes an agreement on the expansion of the Aso Factory with Nishihara-mura in Kumamoto.
This is HORIBA’s largest construction work since the opening of its factory in Kumamoto in 1988. The construction is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2017. This is the first capital investment made by a private company since the Kumamoto Earthquake.
Yuki Hayashi (Legal Department) competes in the Archery Competition in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games. She wins eighth prize in the team competition.
This is the second time she has competed in a Games, the first being the Beijing 2008 Games.
HORIBA announces the release of a new imaging CL system which was born by combining and applying its unique electron beam and spectroscopic technologies.
The system detects crystalline defects by applying electron beam technology.
HORIBA starts to provide maintenance service system “HORIBA MEDISIDE LINKAGE” to use IoT technology for reducing downtime of devices and contributing improvement of medical service qualities.
HORIBA India Private Limited, Technical Center is established in Pune, India.
As a base for demonstrating motor exhaust gas analyzers and advanced material analysis devices.
HORIBA Advanced Techno consolidates HORIBA’s water and liquid business from January 1, 2017
Aiming to establish a "water" business with unified water quality measurements.
HORIBA works with Hitachi Zosen to implement a project to improve contaminated river water in Myanmar.
HORIBA Instruments Incorporated commences operations at new factory in Houston.
Set to become the new hub of its Process & Environmental business.
HORIBA sponsors a ‘Hackathon’ that brought together students from the University of Tokyo and the École Polytechnique.
HORIBA STEC KOREA, Ltd. completes construction of a new facility.
The facility features enhanced production capacities of the acceleration expansion of semiconductor business in the future.
HORIBA Medical and Siemens Healthineers enter into agreement to expand laboratory hematology offerings.
HORIBA commences research with Shiga University on utilization of Big Data from measuring instruments.
HORIBA, Ltd. announces the change of representative directors.
To achieve three main objectives, strengthening group management, defining the group management system and the further enhancement of HORIBA’s technical and development capabilities.