IRVINE, CA - HORIBA Ltd. announced the death of the company founder and Supreme Counsel, Dr. Masao Horiba, who passed away on July 14, 2015. He was 90 years old. A private funeral service has already held by his family, and a formal farewell is scheduled for September 9, 2015.
After majoring in physics at Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University), Horiba used his knowledge and experience in the development of products to create an extremely successful pH meter for the Japanese market. This led to the establishment of HORIBA Ltd. in 1953, and in 1954 he began the development of infrared gas analyzers. Applying this technology to the analysis of automobile exhaust gases, the scale and scope of the company rapidly expanded.