- Headquarters
- Abingdon, United Kingdom · Europe
- Value chain
- Equipment & machinery(Tools)
- What that means
- Builds the machines that make things: production, test and measurement equipment, machine tools, printers and lab instruments.
- Founded
- 1959
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- LSE:OXIG on Google Finance
- Website
- oxinst.com
- Relevance
- Moderate at its strongest, in Nanomaterials & Metamaterials
Abingdon, United KingdomIn 4 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Nanomaterials & MetamaterialsModerate
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Equipment & materials · listed #13 of 50
Supplies atomic-layer deposition/etch tools, Asylum Research AFMs and nanoanalysis instruments used to fabricate and characterise nanomaterials.
Relevance: Nanofabrication and characterisation tool supplier
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Integration · listed #23 of 50
Pioneer of commercial superconducting magnets and a supplier of high-field magnets and cryogenic systems for research and quantum; it sold NanoScience to Quantum Design in 2025.
Relevance: Pioneer of superconducting magnets
- Quantum Sensing & MetrologyModerate
Quantum Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #27 of 50
Oxford Instruments provides cryostats, superconducting magnets and measurement systems used for SQUID and other quantum sensing and metrology research.
Relevance: Cryostats and magnets for quantum sensing
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Equipment & materials · listed #39 of 50
UK supplier of plasma etch, deposition and atomic-layer processing tools (Plasma Technology) for compound and specialty semiconductor fabs.
Relevance: Niche plasma processing tools, mostly R&D