Exceptional Sensing and Insights to Empower the Innovators

Discover how HBK’s exceptional sensing and insights EMPOWER THE INNOVATORS to make the world cleaner, healthier, and more productive

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Rapid, safe, effective innovation for companies who want to change the world.

Every day, our customers are solving the world’s biggest challenges – from the electrification of mobility to enabling smart manufacturing.

Our mission is to help make your vision a reality, with exceptional sensing and insights that you can rely on for ease, accuracy, and efficiency. Bringing together physical, virtual, and in-process testing and measurement, so you can collect insights and use them to make better decisions.

Helping you automate and simplify your work, while still being confident in your results.

We’re driven by the passion and dedication of our people. People who do whatever it takes to get the job done – and use their vast domain expertise, decades of experience, and problem-solving know-how to get it done faster and better.

Empower the Innovators

Provide exceptional sensing and insights to create solutions for a cleaner, healthier and more productive world

About HBK

What we do

Bringing the physical and virtual worlds together

Across the whole product lifecycle, we turn the data collected by our physical sensors into virtual visualisations and unparalleled insights. Empowering R&D, product, operations, and production teams to deliver higher-quality and more sustainable products faster.

We’re not just a components provider – we’re your partner, helping you optimise product development, maximise sustainable value, and resolve your specific challenges at every stage.

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Who we are

Defining testing and measurement since 1942

We bring the best minds in testing and measurement together to build precise, cutting-edge products; push the boundaries of innovation; and empower our customers – just as we have since the very beginning.

Explore our history

HBM and Brüel & Kjær: Better together

Individually, HBM and Brüel & Kjær were leaders in their fields.

Together, as HBK, we’re using our size, expertise, experience, and attention to detail to transform the product lifecycle for our customers.

Since our merger in 2019, we’ve continued to evolve – adding new capabilities, reaching new customers, making new acquisitions and taking on new strategic initiatives. Always with one goal in mind: empower the innovators.

And, as part of the Spectris group, we’re part of a bigger movement – one that’s making the world cleaner, healthier, and more productive every day.

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