Masao Horiba established his company in 1945 while studying nuclear physics at Kyoto University in Japan & started mass production of pH meters. Since then, the HORIBA Group has grown into a renowned global precision instrument manufacturer with international operations that include 49 companies in 27 countries & nearly 9,000 “Horibians.” The world’s leading company providing analytical & measurement products, solutions & engineering services, HORIBA focuses on 5 business sectors, including Automotive Tests Systems (36%), Environmental (11%), Medical (17%), Semiconductor (19%) & Scientific fields (17%). The company is also one of the world’s Top 25 analytical Life Sciences instrumentation companies.