Renishaw’s Spectroscopy Division Relocates to Main Site

After 23 years and many months of planning, Renishaw’s Spectroscopy Products Division (SPD) said farewell to its Old Town site at Wotton-under Edge and moved to the company’s Innovation Centre located at the company’s New Mills headquarters.

Situated in stunning Gloucestershire countryside, the brand new Renishaw Innovation Centre (RIC) opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 7^th July, provides an additional 153,000 sq ft of space for the company adjacent to its iconic HQ, a converted 19^th century woollen mill.  Located one mile away from the ‘Old Town’ site, SPDs new facilities also encompass a second, fully refurbished building, to house the Division’s production and supply chain teams.

The much anticipated move is welcomed by the Division who had outgrown the previous building. Simon Holden, Director and General Manager, Spectroscopy Products Division, said: “We hit saturation point at Old Town and the move to the New Mills site has significantly increased our overall footprint, providing us with much needed space and room for further expansion. We now have the added benefit of state of the art laboratories, modern production and assembly areas, customised dark rooms, and larger training facilities.”

Featuring a demonstration area displaying samples of company products the RIC also boasts a 300-seat lecture theatre, ideal for conferences” and to give our visiting customers the best experience possible,” Mr Holden added.

For many of the staff, leaving the Old Town site signified the end of an era. Dave Gaston, Senior Production Engineer, started working at the main Renishaw site in 1983. 32 years on, he finds himself back in the same lab where he started, albeit with much more modern facilities.