Renishaw www.renishaw.com) — the global engineering company with core skills in measurement, motion control, health-care, spectroscopy and manufacturing — has opened a new R&D facility within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. This will design and develop integrated circuits and sensors for the Renishaw Group and RLS — a Slovenian associate company based in Komenda.

The formal opening ceremony was performed by Renishaw chairman and chief executive Sir David McMurtry, who
co-founded the company in 1973. He said: “I am delighted to be able to formally open our new Slovenian operation, which adds further capability to our global R&D capabilities. Over a period of more than a decade, the University of Ljubljana’s Laboratory of Microelectronics has been a key supplier of application-specific integrated circuits to the Renishaw Group, and this new investment reflects our confidence in the continuing value of that
relationship.”

Professor Igor Papic, dean of the faculty, said: “By combining the skills of a renowned engineering faculty with that of a world-leading engineering company, we have created an environment that has enormous potential for R&D. We aim to support Renishaw in its future requirements for advanced electronics for the precision measurement and health-care sectors.”