Renishaw opens facilities in India and Japan

Opening of the new Renishaw Technical Centre in Nagoya, Japan

To help service its growing customer base in India and Japan, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, has recently opened two ‘state of the art’ technology centres — one in Chennai, India, and one in Nagoya, Japan. These facilities will strengthen Renishaw’s presence in both countries and improve customer access to the company’s engineering expertise and innovative technologies.

Renishaw unveiled its Nagoya facility at a two-day event, attended by over 100 guests including its largest distributors, machine builder customers, Japanese metrology academics, representatives from the British Embassy, and employees from the company’s Tokyo office. Over the course of the two days, Renishaw showcased the centre’s demonstration and office spaces, calibration laboratory, warehouse and despatch areas. The event also included demonstrations of the full range of metrology and spectroscopy products offered by the company, including the new Renishaw Central smart manufacturing software suite which allows manufacturers to collect, present and action accurate process data to enhance their production processes.

Jason Taylor, Renishaw Japan managing director, said: “The event was a chance for us to show visitors how far Renishaw has come since opening our first Nagoya office in 1986. We bought the current Nagoya building in 2019 and moved our offices there, and we have now turned the first floor into a new technology centre with a customer demonstration area, seminar room and applications development areas. Now it is up and running, we will use the centre with our customers, developing and demonstrating new solutions.”

Renishaw also recently opened a new office and demonstration centre in Chennai, India, attended by hundreds of customers, machine tool builders, channel partners and journalists. The new facility will support Renishaw’s customers and partners in the Tamil Nadu region, as well as host potential buyers so that they can test the application of Renishaw products on their components before investing. The Chennai site will also serve as a training hub for students, machine builders, end user customers, channel partners and Renishaw employees.

Chennai opening - Paul Weaver and Sanjay Sangam cutting ribbon

Paul Weaver, director of sales and marketing at Renishaw India, said: “India is currently experiencing a dynamic period of growth, making it an exciting time to be part of this market. The machine tool industry is expanding, new investments are flowing in from abroad, and both the domestic and export markets are seeing significant demand. Renishaw is at the heart of this growth, actively supporting the precision manufacturing sector.”

He added: “Our new office and technology centre in Chennai marks a new phase in Renishaw’s development. This new facility demonstrates our latest innovations, including the NC4+ Blue non-contact laser tool setter, the REVO five-axis multi-sensor measurement system, and Equator shopfloor gauging systems. It also showcases our precision encoders and calibration devices — and we will use these for customer demonstrations and training sessions.”

Renishaw is continuing to invest in upgraded and new facilities to better support its customers. In addition to the facilities in India and Japan, within the past year it has opened new offices in Brazil and created its first subsidiary operation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to serve the rapidly growing manufacturing and advanced engineering sectors in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and Egypt.