Renishaw plc.

History

Year	Detail
1973	Renishaw Electrical Ltd registered and first probe for CMMs (TP1) made commercially available.
1976	Esatblished First commercial premises, a former ice cream factory in Wotton-under-Edge, UK.
1977	First dedicated probe for machine tools - enabling automated setting and inspection.
1979	Start of the Early Careers programme with the first apprentices employed (sponsored student scheme started 1984).
1981	International expansion with a manufacturing facility in Ireland and the first sales subsidiary, Renishaw Inc, established in Chicago, USA.
1983	Flotation on the London Stock Exchange's Unlisted Securities Market (full listing in 1984).
1985	Opened New Mills site in Gloucestershire, UK (now the Company's headquarters) officially.
1987	Introduced the First laser interferometer system – transforming the speed and accuracy of machine calibration.
1989	Introduction of the first range of encoder readheads and interfaces.
1991	Raman microscope introduced to provide detailed chemical and structural characterisation.
1992	Introduction of RAMTIC (Renishaw's Automated Milling, Turning and Inspection Centre) an in-house system still in use for component production.
1995	The company has introduced the First laser scale system.
2003	Renishaw's largest international expansion in one year with office openings in Austria, Canada, Hungary, Israel and Sweden.
2005	Launch of the REVO® five-axis measurement system, enabling a 10x increase in tactile measurement speeds.
2007	Neurological product line established.
2011	Gauging and additive manufacturing product lines introduced. Miskin manufacturing site purchased in South Wales.
2013	Metrology fixtures product line introduced.
2018	Launch of the RenAM 500Q four-laser additive manufacturing system.
2020	Helped deliver over 13,000 ventilators to the UK's National Health Service during Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
2021	Launch of the FORTiS™ range of next-generation enclosed linear absolute encoders. Record year for UK graduate and apprentice opportunities - 96 graduates and 80 apprentices.
2022	£65 million expansion begins at Miskin manufacturing site in South Wales.