Oxford, United Kingdom-based Oxford Instruments’ Industrial Analysis division has been acquired by Tokyo-based Hitachi High-Technologies Group for £80 million ($104.2 million).
The newly combined company, Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science, “brings together Hitachi High-Technologies’ extensive scientific instrumentation portfolio with Oxford Instruments’ rich 40-year heritage of innovative analytical instruments and services developed in close partnership with industry customers,” Oxford states in a press release.
The firms say the collaboration will offer the companies a wider ranging product portfolio, more contact points with customers and more chances to meet customer needs.
“Today, we already help thousands of businesses streamline their costs, minimize risk and increase production efficiency,” says Dawn Brooks, 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 our customers around the world.”
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science says it will “continue to specialize in delivering high-tech analysis solutions, developed in close collaboration with industry customers and designed to meet the tough challenges of a rapidly evolving industrial sector.”
The company lists recycling, along with raw material exploration, incoming inspection, production and quality control, as sectors with which it will continue to work.
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