Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science, which is part of Hitachi High-Tech Group that engages in the manufacture and sales of analysis and measuring instruments, has opened a new high-tech manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.
The state-of-the-art 4,118 sqm facility in Laigangxin Bay Technology Innovation Park, Minhang District, has been designed to support a rapid upscaling in the development and production of high-tech analysis equipment, to meet increased demand worldwide.
The new site combines the company’s two existing Shanghai locations into a single facility. As the company’s China headquarters, it will support robust demand for analytical equipment from a booming Chinese industrial sector, as well as supplying thousands of companies worldwide with advanced quality control solutions.
“As industrial production rapidly picks up round the world, our customers are focusing on optimizing their efficiency and quality control processes, though the smart application of analytics and data," says Dawn Brooks, Managing Director of Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science. "Businesses are returning leaner and more focused on reducing wastage and optimizing throughput, while achieving the highest levels of quality needed for today’s high-performance materials and goods. We’re applying this smart factory approach to our own production and with our new China facility we’re perfectly placed to support our customers on this journey”.
The new Hitachi High-Tech-Analytical Science China site employs over 100 specialists engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of the company’s high-tech benchtop and portable x-ray fluorescence and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrumentation, essential to production and end-product quality control as well as compliance and safety assurance applications in hundreds of industries worldwide.
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Shanghai Co., Limited can now be contacted at Building 5, Shanghai Laigangxin Bay Technology Innovation Park, No. 1601-1609, Lian Road, Minhang District, Shanghai. The Main switchboardnumber is +86 21 5320 0888; the Sales Tel +86 400 621 5191 and the Customer Support Tel +86 400 622 5191
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About Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science:
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science is a global company within the Hitachi High-Tech Group. The company is headquartered in Oxford, UK, with R&D and assembly operations in Finland, Germany and China, and sales and support operations in a number of countries around the world. With an established presence in China since the 1980s, our product range includes:
- Thermal analysis: theNEXTA DSC600, NEXTA DSC200, NEXTA STA, TMA7100, TMA7300 and DMA7100thermal analysis range is optimized to detect and visualize the smallest reactions, while being robust, reliable and easy to use.
- Specialist RoHS analyzers: designed for Restriction of Hazardous Substances analysis, our EA1400, EA1000AIII, EA6000VXandHM1000A analyzers are quick and easy to use, with flexibility to adapt to evolving regulation.
- Handheld analyzers: theX-MET8000is used by thousands of businesses to deliver simple, rapid, non-destructive analysis for alloy analysis, scrap metal sorting and metal grade screening using precision XRF technology. Vulcan, powered by LIBS laser technology identifies metal alloys in just one second; hugely benefitting businesses processing high volumes of metal and making Vulcan one of the fastest analyzers in the world.
- Microspot XRF coatings analyzers: theFT160, FT110A and X-Stratameasure coating thickness of single- and multi-layer coatings including alloy layers and are designed to be incorporated into quality control or process control programs, as well as research laboratories.
- Versatile Benchtop XRF analyzers: the Lab-X5000 and X-Supreme8000deliver highly-trusted quality assurance and process control across a diverse range of industries such as petroleum, wood treatment, cement, minerals, mining and plastics.
- OES metals analyzers: ourOE, FOUNDRY-MASTER, PMI-MASTER, and TEST-MASTERrange of optical emission spectroscopy analyzers are used by industries the world over for high-precision metals analysis.
- Lithium-ion battery analysis: ourEA8000Ax-ray particle contaminant analyzer is custom designed for fast and efficient quality control in lithium-ion battery production.