MIRA owner to invest £6m in test centre
The Japanese owner of advanced engineering research centre MIRA is to invest £6m into improving its facilities.
HORIBA, which acquired the Nuneaton business park last year, wants to enhance the centre’s test and engineering capabilities with a 12,000 sq ft dedicated Advanced Emissions Test Centre.
The new facility will provide emissions testing capabilities for global compliance, including Euro6 and Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), as well as incorporating Real World Driving Emissions (RDE) testing capabilities. The facility will be focused around a four-wheel drive (4WD) climatic chassis dynamometer and four soak rooms.
The investment brings HORIBA’s total investment since acquiring the site last July to £22m.
The new centre is set for completion by the end of 2016, and will create a number jobs, including apprentices, engineers and technicians.
George Gillespie, CEO at HORIBA MIRA, said: “We are incredibly proud to be developing this new Advanced Emissions Test Centre here in Nuneaton and helping contribute to reducing vehicle emissions globally alongside the HORIBA Group. Vehicle manufacturers will now have access to first-class facilities to ensure their vehicles meet new EU6c regulations.
“This second investment from the HORIBA Group, which follows an initial committed investment of £16m announced earlier this month, reiterates MIRA’s leading position in cutting edge automotive technologies and builds on our portfolio of expertise available to help our customers develop world leading products.”
The project will be the first to bring together six of HORIBA’s group companies, including HORIBA Japan and HORIBA MIRA, which are collectively leading on project management, building and integration, as well as HORIBA Test Automation in UK, HORIBA UK, HORIBA France, and HORIBA Europe.
