Located in Echizen City (Fukuoka Prefecture), Technica Fukui combines the company’s three pre-existing A-T Fukuoka branches, consolidating and streamlining design efforts, and bringing ‘increased collaboration among A-T’s global design teams’.

The facility is equipped with a dedicated acoustic lab and an anechoic chamber for audio testing. Emphasis has been placed on advancing wireless technologies with research and product development. Investments in wireless communication measurement tools will allow A-T to create wireless products for both professional and consumer markets that will use spectrum – an increasingly scarce global resource – more efficiently. With Technica Fukui, A-T is set up to develop, design and test alternative wireless options using a variety of communication protocols such as Bluetooth. To this end, the RF chamber can be used for EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) as well as EMI (electromagnetic interference) or RFI (radio frequency interference) testing. Having a central design location allows global product management teams to air ideas for the future of Audio-Technica wireless products.

Greg Pinto, Audio-Technica US Vice President of Marketing, recently visited the facility: ‘Technica Fukui’s modern, three-storey glass-and-stone building is truly a work of art,’ he says. ‘Its open design, from work areas to conference rooms, underscores the company’s teamwork philosophy. Add to that an impressive, basketball court-sized wireless lab immune to outside RF energy and you can see how A-T will continue to create products that exceed expectations of wireless users.’

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