Horiba

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Horiba Seisakusho

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN JP3853000002
founding October 17, 1945
Seat Kyoto , Japan
management Atsushi Horiba (Chairman and President)
Number of employees 5,965
sales € 1.203 billion
Branch Measurement technology and analysis
Website www.horiba.com
Status: 2014

HORIBA headquarters in Kyoto, Japan
Masao Horiba receives the Pittcon Heritage Award (2006)

KK Horiba Seisakusho ( Japanese 株式会社 堀 場 製作 所 , Kabushiki-gaisha Horiba Seisakusho ) is a global manufacturer of measuring devices and systems for the fields of automotive test systems, process and environmental technology, medical diagnostics and semiconductor manufacturing. Analogous to the areas in which the products are used, Horiba distinguishes between five business areas. The company, headquartered in Kyoto , Japan , employs over 5,000 people worldwide at around 100 locations in 27 countries. Branches in Germany are spread across the whole of Germany. In addition to the headquarters of HORIBA Europe GmbH in Oberursel and the branch with the largest number of employees in Darmstadt , Horiba is located in Bensheim , Berlin , Böblingen , Dresden , Korschenbroich , Langenhagen , Leichlingen , Munich , Neuhausen, Potsdam , Unterhaching and Wolfsburg .

history

As early as 1945 Masao Horiba built a private radio laboratory in Kyoto for research purposes, in which he initially worked on the development of a capacitor for high-performance computing machines. However, in the early 1950s, the cost explosion of materials as a result of the Korean War stood in the way of commercial production of the capacitor . Instead, he successfully sold the pH analyzer that was actually intended to control the capacitor .

On January 26, 1953, Masao Horiba founded the Horiba Seisakusho. The newly established company initially devoted itself to the further development of the pH analyzer. In 1959 Horiba entered into an alliance with Hitachi , Ltd. a. Under the Hitachi-Horiba brand name, the company developed and manufactured all of the analytical instruments sold by Hitachi. The partnership lasted about 40 years.

At the request of the Japanese government, Horiba developed the first MEXA-1 automotive exhaust gas analyzer in 1964. In 1971, the Horiba was listed for the first time on the Osaka Stock Exchange in the second section. In 1974 a listing also followed in the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange . Horiba has been listed in the first section of both exchanges since 1982. To grow outside of Japan, Horiba founded Olson-Horiba Incorporated (USA) in 1970 together with the US emissions tester Olson. In 1972 several branches are opened. In 1976 Horiba developed Japan's first energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyzer. In 1978, Horiba established the company motto Omoshiro Okashiku ("amusing and funny"), which is still valid today and which is translated in English as "Joy and Fun". Horiba opened a sales office in Singapore in 1985 . 1989 branches in Austria and Korea follow . Horiba GmbH founded in October 1987. In 1987 Horiba entered into a cooperation with the French company ABX SA.

In 1990 the first Mid-Long Term Management Plan (MLMAP) started, with which Horiba defined its corporate goals for the next 16 years. In the same year, HORIBA spun off the "Analytical Instruments Division". Irvine is headquartered in the USA. Eight years later, HORIBA International was founded as a management company for Horiba Instruments Inc. in North America. At the same time, the US subsidiary STEC Instrument Inc. was merged into Horiba / STEC Inc. Horiba Instruments became a world leader in instrumental analysis and measurement technology.

Almost exactly 40 years after the company was founded, Atsushi Horiba took over the management of the company from his father as President and CEO in 1992. Further branches were opened, for example in Sweden in 1993 or in Beijing in 1996 . In 1993, Horiba sold the world's first wireless pH meter in the “Scientific” division. Other new products that Horiba brought onto the market in the 1990s were the XRF (X-ray fluorescence analysis) microscope (1994), with which the content of chemical elements in a sample volume can be determined, or measurement systems for quality control of flat screens (1997). Horiba was the first metrology company to receive ISO-9001 certification for quality management in Japan in 1993 and a year later by the British Standard Institute (BSI) . In 1997 Horiba took over the French company Yobin Yvon SA, which manufactures optical components, and thereby made it a subsidiary.

From 2000

In order to bundle the service functions in Japan, Horiba Techno Service CO., LTD. founded. In 2002 the entire entry into the Chinese market followed with the establishment of Horiba Instruments Co., Ltd. in Shanghai. The development of the world's first "on board" vehicle measurement system by Horiba in 2002 made it possible to measure and evaluate vehicle exhaust gases under real conditions.

As part of the company's 50th anniversary, the “Dr. Masao Horiba Award “: The award supports young scientists outside the Horiba Group in their research in the field of analysis and measurement technology.

Atsushi Horiba with Mexa-200 analyzer

In 2004 Horiba changed its name in order to bundle the individual legal companies under one family name and thus to follow the newly initialized slogan "Horiba Group is ONE Company".

In 2005 Horiba acquired the "Driving Testing Systems Division" from Schenck GmbH in Germany. The acquired business area develops measurement techniques for checking engine and brake lines as well as software systems. In 2007 Atsushi Horiba, son of the company founder, chairman and president of the company was appointed vice-president of the board of the "Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers Association (JAIMA)".

Horiba opened its new European research center near Paris in 2012, which is also the new headquarters of Horiba Jobin Yvon. The location in the Parisian Saclay Cluster houses the university “Ecole Polytechnique” and numerous academic and industrial research institutions.

In 2013 Horiba took over the process analytics division of the US company Cameron with a view to building up the future core business in the area of ​​"Process & Environmental Systems". In 2014, the company expanded the biomedical product area with the acquisition of Photon Technology International.

December 2014 Horiba ATS and the Institut für Automobiltechnik Dresden (IAD) of the TU Dresden sign a cooperation for the development of more efficient vehicle systems. The face of the cooperation is on the part of the University of Günther Prokop , since October 1, 2010 the head of the Chair of Automotive Technology.

HORIBA engine test bench

At the end of March, Horiba ATS and the Spanish Polytechnic Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) confirmed a cooperation to develop a mobile measurement system for height simulation. This takes into account the trend towards mobile emission measurement of vehicles ( Real Driving Emissions , RDE).

In 2015, Horiba acquired the development service provider and test site operator MIRA.

Company founder Masao Horiba died on July 14, 2015 at the age of 90.

In September 2015, the VW emissions scandal was started using a portable Horiba OBS-2200 exhaust gas measurement system ( Portable Emission Measurement System , PEMS) and a Pegasor Model (PPS-M) .

The German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) officially named the test center of Horiba Europe GmbH in Oberursel, Hesse , as a technical service in December 2015. This designation is based on a KBA procedure in accordance with the framework directive 2007/46 / EC and the UNECE agreement of 1958.

Awards

  • 2005 Porter Prize of the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy in the category "Division of Multiple-Business Company".
  • 2005 France-Japan Investment Award from the French Society for International Investments.
  • 2006 Pittcon Heritage Award to Masao Horiba, a prize awarded annually by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF).
  • 2006 Analytical Chemistry Prize, USA to Masao Horiba.
  • 2010 Atsushi Horiba knighted the Legion of Honor, among other things because of his services to Franco-Japanese relations.

Individual evidence

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  11. ↑ Horiba ABX SA: Private Company Information - Businessweek. In: Businessweek.com. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
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  14. ↑ Inside View Directory. (No longer available online.) In: InsideView. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 19, 2016 (American English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.insideview.com  
  15. ↑ a b 2000s - HORIBA. In: www.horiba.com. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  16. ↑ 2015 Masao Horiba Awards | Masao Horiba Awards / 堀 場 雅夫 賞. In: www.mh-award.org. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  17. ^ A b Porter Prize: 2005 Porter Prize Winners. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Board of Directors | Welcome to JAIMA | JAIMA 一般 社 団 法人 日本 分析 機器 工業 会. In: www.jaima.or.jp. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  19. ↑ New headquarters of Horiba Europe - Photonics. In: www.photonik.de. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  20. ^ Acquisition of US company Cameron's process analytical product line - HORIBA. In: www.horiba.com. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
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  22. ^ TU Dresden: Horiba and TU Dresden cooperate. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; Retrieved January 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-dresden.de
  23. ^ TU Dresden: Günther Prokop is professor for automotive technology. In: TU Dresden: Günther Prokop is professor for automotive technology. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Carl Hanser Verlag: Horiba is developing a mobile system for height simulation with UPV. In: www.hanser-automotive.de. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .
  25. ↑ HORIBA MIRA: World-class Vehicle Engineering, Test and Development | MIRA. In: www.horiba-mira.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Horiba Ltd. announces the death of the company's founder, Dr. Masao Horiba. In: www.laserfocusworld.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Masatsugu Horie Craig Trudell crtrud: This Japanese Emissions Test Equipment Maker Humbled Mighty Volkswagen. In: Bloomberg.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016 .
  28. ^ Federal Motor Transport Authority: Named Technical Services - Test Laboratories. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 20, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kba.de
  29. ↑ Past Winners of the Pittcon Heritage Award | Chemical Heritage Foundation. (No longer available online.) In: www.chemheritage.org. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014 ; Retrieved January 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemheritage.org