Renishaw recently marked a major milestone in its growth with the opening of its new 153,000 sq. ft. Innovation Center in the U.K. The $31 million facility, located at company headquarters near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, was formally opened in early July by Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal.
The Renishaw Innovation Center gives the company additional space to house research and development and corporate services staff, as well as demonstration, training and conference facilities. The additional space also enables Renishaw's spectroscopy and laser calibration product lines to relocate to the company headquarters site. This first phase of the development includes planning permission to expand by another 77,000 sq. ft. The company's investment program also includes the opening of a new R&D operation within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, as well as other new construction in the UK.
At the opening event for the Innovation Center, Sir David McMurtry, Renishaw's Chairman and Chief Executive, said: "This is one of a series of significant investments that we are making to secure our growth in the UK and our many overseas markets. This building on its own represents a $31 million investment and I would like to thank all of the Renishaw employees and our contractors who have worked incredibly hard to deliver such a high quality facility."
As part of the celebration for the new Innovation Center, HRH, The Princess Royal, presented the company with its 18th Queen's Award, this one for Enterprise in the Innovation category. The then Princess Anne last visited Renishaw in 1980 when the company had just one facility and employed around 100 people, a vast difference from today when the business has more than 4,000 employees in the UK and at wholly owned subsidiary operations in 31 countries.
New Slovenian Research Facility Opened in June
Renishaw Tehnicni Inzeniring d.o.o., a new R&D operation within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, was opened in June. It will design, develop and supply integrated circuits and sensor technologies for the Renishaw Group and RLS merilna tehnika d.o.o., a Slovenian associate of Renishaw that designs and manufactures advanced rotary and linear motion sensors. "For more than a decade, the University of Ljubljana's Laboratory of Microelectronics (LMFE) has been a key supplier of ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) to the Renishaw Group, and this new investment reflects our confidence in the continuing value of that relationship," said Sir David.
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