Hochiki Europe Information

INTERNATIONAL MARKET LEADER Hochiki has a distinguished heritage of specialist technological expertise which has gained the group its international status as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial and industrial fire detection solutions. Established early in the twentieth century, Hochiki has remained an independent, multi-national company which now employs over 1500 personnel in total, operating five manufacturing plants, thirty-one sales offices and eighteen subsidiaries. Hochiki Europe (UK) Ltd manufactures and distributes product for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and is dedicated to providing sales and technical services to these markets. WORLD PROVEN PERFORMANCE With a heritage of innovative design and leading edge technologies, Hochiki’s products have gained widespread acceptance as the benchmark for high-integrity and long-term reliability throughout the world. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR LIFE SAFETY Hochiki owns the world’s largest, purpose-built, state of the art fire test laboratory. This ensures that the pedigree of Hochiki products remains unrivalled and guarantees that even large scale designs are fully proven in real fire conditions. In addition, the Group employs over 100 specialist research and development engineers that undertake activities from fundamental research into the physical properties of fire, to hardware and software product design and development.