HORIBA opens new Analytical Solution Plaza to support UK science and research
New UK-based technical innovation facility opens in Nuneaton on MIRA Tech Park
8 Jul 2025Industry news
HORIBA has expanded its worldwide network of Analytical Solution Plazas with the opening in the UK of its latest advanced technology centre. Sited in the centre of the country on MIRA TechPark, the HORIBA Group’s new customer and scientific collaboration site was opened by HORIBA Group CEO, Mr. Atsushi Horiba, and British Ambassador to Japan, Her Excellency Ms Julia Longbottom CMG.
The Plaza will be a resource for all of HORIBA’s business fields in the UK, giving customers and the wider UK scientific community ready access to the company’s breadth of advanced technological capabilities and scientific expertise.
The new 290 m2 Analytical Solution Plaza United Kingdom will house a broad range of HORIBA’s cutting-edge technologies which can support an extensive array of analytical applications from biopharmaceuticals, cell and gene therapy, and clinical diagnostics, through to net zero and clean energy, the environment and climate change, plus advanced manufacturing and materials.
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. These activities will be facilitated by the Plaza’s open-plan demonstration area zoned by technology capability, its chemistry lab and access to stunning event space.
The UK’s new Plaza will expand on HORIBA’s current customer collaboration sites, including its UK locations with over 800 employees nationwide, as well as its Analytical Solution Plazas worldwide. Like other Plazas, the new UK-based facility will offer analytical testing services to support scientists, with quality data available on a contract analysis basis.
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.
HORIBA’s technology capabilities encompass many areas of expertise. Those to be showcased at the new Plaza include: microscopic and nanoscopic chemical imaging; molecular fingerprinting with optical spectroscopy; fuel cell and battery materials testing; particle characterisation; water quality testing; medical and veterinary diagnostics; and gas analysis for industrial and environmental applications.
As it is sited at MIRA Tech Park, where over 1,500 personnel from HORIBA and science-focused tenant companies are involved in tech developments from clean energy and cybersecurity to autonomous vehicles and AI, this offers visitors to the UK-based Analytical Solution Plaza even wider scientific insights.