Horiba STEC is going to add a new building to its R&D center named “Kyoto Fukuchiyama Technology Center.” It will be constructed at the place adjacent to the present building from January 2024 for a planned completion in April 2025.

The planned expansion is intended to sophisticate the core technologies, for instance, of gas flow-rate control or gasification of liquid, and also the reinforcement of the next-generation technologies.

With the additional construction the company is planning to expand the scope of flow standard technology and the area for various experiments, while it aims to reinforce the R&D system on the elemental technology control which supports the basis of fluid measurement in order to respond to the diversifying process and applications. Concretely, it is aimed to respond to the atomic layer process/ALD and ALE.

As a new function, the company build a test room to enable evaluation of various process monitors which is deemed to be one of the important fields for the future.

Horiba STEC has an extensive range of technology and product in connection with the measurement of “light” like IR (infrared ray), IRLAM, OES (Optical Emission Spectrometer), QMS (quadrupole mass spectrometer). To materialize versatile R&D activities for them, the company newly builds a test room leading to the development of new products.

In order to promote an industry-academia collaboration, the company newly provide a lab space for collaboration toward materialization of next-generation technologies.

In addition, the company pursues compatibility of design and function such as providing a sense of openness making an atrium at the entrance and a terrace in a high daylight environment, and also materializes a comfortable space with a cafeteria for multi-purpose use so that people can work with high motivation.

The investment amounts to 3 billion yen. The number of employees is 22 as of September 2023, but the company will gradually increase the number aiming at a working system having 70 employees in 2028.