About
Edinburgh Instruments is a global leader in the research, development and manufacturing of state-of-the-art spectroscopic instrumentation for over 50 years. During this time, a worldwide reputation for quality and innovation has been established. Edinburgh Instruments primarily designs and manufactures bespoke spectroscopic systems for various spectroscopy markets including Photoluminescence, Raman, UV-Vis and Transient Absorption.
The company, with headquarters in Livingston, Scotland, has an extensive global distribution network and has a highly prized reputation for the delivery of high quality, accurate instrumentation together with one to one customer service support.
About Us
Our History
Techcomp Group
Corporate Responsibility
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1971
Edinburgh Instruments (EI) founded as the first private spin-out company on Britain’s first University ‘Research Park’. The company was founded by Professor Des Smith, OBE, FRS, FRSE, FInstP when Head of the Physics Department at Heriot Watt University.
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1978
Edinburgh Instruments (EI) launches its first fluorescent lifetime spectrometer based around a nanosecond flashlamp in co-operation with Strathclyde University.
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2012
EI wins the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade, one of the most coveted awards in UK industry.
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2000
Major developments occur with the combined FLS920 fluorescence lifetime and steady state spectrometers.
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2005
EPL Picosecond pulsed diode laser series launched.
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2013
Edinburgh Instruments is acquired by Hong Kong based firm Techcomp Group Ltd.
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2015
Edinburgh Instruments move into a third building at their Livingston headquarters. This takes office and manufacturing capacity to over 30,000 sq ft.
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2014
The Photonics Division launch the new LP980 Transient Absorption Spectrometer. Offering unsurpassed measurement capabilities across a broad range of chemical, physical and biological applications, the LP980 is the first of its kind on the market.
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2018
2018 was a special year, marking 5 years since our parent company Techcomp Group Ltd. acquired the firm, where we celebrated with our local MSP.
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2019
EI launches the DS5, a high performance dual beam UV-Vis Spectrophotometer.
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2020
EI launches the RMS1000 Raman Microscope. The RMS1000 is an open architecture, high-end research grade confocal Raman Microscope. It has been designed to be adapted to almost any modern, state-of-the-art Raman application.
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2019
EI launches it’s first range of Raman Mircoscopes, units include the Compact RM5, and the Research Grade RMS1000 microscope.
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2021
Edinburgh Instruments Celebrates its 50th Anniversary. None of this would have been possible without a fantastic team and as we celebrate our Golden Anniversary we’d like to show our appreciation of their dedication and hard work.