Japan’s Horiba to set up semicon unit in Nagpur industrial estate

The Maharashtra government is in talks with Japan’s Horiba Group for the setting up of a semiconductor unit the state. Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government has identified land in the Butibori industrial estate in Nagpur for the plant.

Horiba India opened a facility in Nagpur on July 6 to manufacture medical equipment and consumables. It is the largest medical equipment and haematology reagent manufacturing unit in the country. Set up with an investment of Rs 200 crore, the plant will provide critical equipment to 30,000 diagnostic labs in India.