Horiba has opened a new advanced technology centre in Warwickshire, UK — expanding its global network of Analytical Solution Plazas.
Situated at MIRA Tech Park, Horiba's new customer and scientific collaboration site will act as a resource for all of Horiba's business sectors in the UK.
The new 290m2 analytical solution plaza will house a wide range of Horiba's technologies, supporting an array of analytical applications from cell and gene therapy to biopharmaceuticals and clinical diagnostics.
The site will also be able to deal with clean energy and advanced manufacturing/material analysis.
Scientists from all fields will be welcome to collaborate on demonstrations, feasibility studies, educational seminars and training, with access to technology displays and working products.
In addition to broadening resources for HORIBA customers in the UK, the new Plaza will also offer an ideal location for on-site STEM outreach programmes to interact with and inspire visiting school children and university students.
“Our new UK-based Plaza aims to enable our customers to really ‘see inside’ HORIBA; it will demonstrate our full breadth of technological capabilities and expertise across all of our fields of business," noted Horiba's Head of Science and Technology, Dr Simon FitzGerald.
“Being part of a worldwide network of Plazas that talk and work together means that our UK customers can readily see and access all of HORIBA’s technologies and expertise both locally and, via remote link up, globally.”
Here's a full rundown of the new plaza's areas of expertise:
- Microscopic chemical imaging
- Nanoscopic chemical imaging
- Molecular fingerprinting with optical spectroscopy
- Fuel cell and battery materials testing
- Particle characterisation
- Water quality testing
- Medical and vetinary diagnostics
- Gas analysis for industrial and environmental applications.
