2010s

• 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.

• Water quality analyzers, LAQUA, are released.

• HORIBA relocates Tokyo office due to strengthening domestic sales.

• Next generation monitor exhaust gas analyzer, MEXA-ONE, is released.

• HORIBA opens its brand new 7500m² European research centre near Paris, France close to the renown French Ecole Polytechnique Campus. 

• HORIBA agrees on joint research with Tsinghua University in China for environmental monitoring technology.

• 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.

• 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’s state-of-the-art technology center is completed.

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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.