11/11/2019 | Press Release
– Enhancing the service business globally –
HORIBA Techno Service Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 2 Miyanohigashi, Kisshoin, Minami-ku, Kyoto; President: Yuichi Muroga; hereinafter, “HTS”), a group company of HORIBA, Ltd. (hereinafter, “HORIBA”) responsible for product maintenance and contract tests, will establish its new Head Office building in Kisshoin, Minami-ku, Kyoto, with the aim of reinforcing and expanding its service business both in Japan and abroad.
Construction work commenced on November 1, 2019 with completion scheduled for November 2020.
Amid drastic changes to the business environment in which the HORIBA Group finds itself, HTS will further consolidate the function of its global headquarters on the new premises in Kyoto, anticipating customer needs, coming up with novel business models, and supporting customers in an all-encompassing manner.
Objective of the project
HTS was established in 2000 as a service subsidiary of the HORIBA Group, in response to the expansion of the after-sales service market in the measuring instruments industry. HTS networks with 50 group companies in 28 countries to support engineers even outside of Japan and provide users of HORIBA products with maintenance services. Once established, the Kyoto Head Office will be the global hub of the HORIBA Group’s service business, connecting service centers and analysis laboratories from around the world, with goals to create a new business through the analysis of information gathered through those global connections and to offer innovative solutions. Concurrently, greater efforts will be made to train and back technical engineers throughout the country and the world, thereby building a framework for providing high-value-added support for customers.
Given the need to enhance the functions of the headquarters, as well as the engineering division, in order to reinforce and expand the service business both in and out of Japan, the decision has been made to build a new Head Office.
About the new Head Office
| Name | Kyoto Head Office, HORIBA Techno Service Co., Ltd. |
| Location | Kisshoin Maegawara-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto |
| Site area | 3,439.33m2 |
| Total floor area | 7,548.99m2 (six-storied) |
| Construction to start | November 1, 2019 |
| Operation to start | December 2020 (subject to change) |
About HTS
| Name | HORIBA Techno Service Co., Ltd. |
| Location | 2 Miyanohigashi, Kisshoin, Minami-ku, Kyoto |
| Establishment | March 21, 2000 |
| Capital stock | 0.25 billion yen |
| President | Yuichi Muroga |
| Headcount | 510 |
| Line of business | Maintenance of measurement equipment / instruments and systems for medical-diagnostics and other applications, and sale of their components and reagents |