Founded in 1918, the company installed Japan’s first public fire alarm in 1920 and developed the world’s first addressable manual call point. Today, it is an international business with an annual global turnover in excess of GB pound 400 million. Currently it manufactures more than five million detectors every year, and has the largest fire test laboratory in the world.
Hochiki Europe was established in the UK in 1992 and is headquartered at a purpose-built facility in Gillingham, Kent, from where it manages Hochiki’s extensive business interests throughout the EMEA region, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Indian subcontinent. With more than 100 employees, the UK-based operation presently produces annually in excess of 800,000 conventional and intelligent detectors and ancillaries.
