Hitachi High Technologies Acquires Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis Business

The Industrial Analysis Division of Oxford Instruments (Oxford, UK) has become part of Hitachi High-Technologies Group (Tokyo, Japan) to create a new company called Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Ltd. that brings together Hitachi’s extensive scientific instrumentation portfolio with Oxford’s rich 40-year heritage of innovative analytical instruments and services developed in close partnership with industry customers. The collaboration will offer both companies a wider ranging product portfolio, more contact points with customers and more chances to meet user needs.

This new company will continue to specialize in delivering high-tech analysis systems that are developed in close collaboration with industry users and designed to meet the tough challenges of a rapidly evolving industrial sector. Their range of laboratory-based and robust high performance in-field testing instruments deliver materials and coatings analysis that adds value throughout the production lifecycle, from raw material exploration to incoming inspection, production and quality control to recycling. A team of in-house experts have developed customized testing methodologies for hundreds of industrial applications, delivering simplicity of operation for even the most demanding applications.

“Today we already help thousands of businesses streamline their costs, minimize risk and increase production efficiency,” said Dawn Brooks, the managing director of Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science. “The combined strengths of Hitachi and Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis greatly increases our capability to offer an ever-wider range of leading-edge analytical solutions to users around the world.”

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