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The Yaskawa Deutschland GmbH is a leading company in the Robotic and Automation services based in Allershausen, Germany, while Yaskawa Europe has just moved into new headquarters in Hattersheim. Both are part of the Yaskawa Electric Corporation, a Japanese group. You can read what's new from the companies here.

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• Yaskawa and Lorch welding technology cooperate across Europe
• Yaskawa presents new robot partner in Romania
• Bruno Schnekenburger becomes CEO of Yaskawa Europe
  
  
• Who is Yaskawa?
  
  

Yaskawa and Lorch welding technology cooperate across Europe

22.10.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX | Yaskawa and Lorch welding technology announce their Europe-wide cooperation. With this, they want companies in the industry to find innovative solutions for the welding to offer. The cooperation partners see enormous potential in medium-sized companies to automate production processes in the next few years.

“In the welding sector, we are the market leader with our broad portfolio of robots. So it stands to reason that in times of collaborative Robotic and bringing man and machine closer together with well-known welding source manufacturers such as Lorch in this area, ”comments Otwin Kleinschmidt, Division Manager Yaskawa Germany.

“We are very pleased about the cooperation that has started with Yaskawa in the field of welding robotics. With this partnership, we will create joint solutions in the future that will allow customers to further automate their production and gain even more competitiveness. In the next few years, we see an increasing demand for automated welding solutions, especially in medium-sized companies but also in large-scale industry. Here we want to increase the efficiency of our customers together, ”he says happily Wolfgang Grub, managing partner of Lorch welding technology.

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Lorch has been manufacturing in Germany for over 60 years Arc welding systems for the industry and exports them to more than 60 countries. Latest innovations are a collaborative welding robot. Lorch Connect also enables users to network welding systems without complex IT installation. Yaskawa is an active supplier of technologies in the field of robotics, drive- And Control Technology.

Yaskawa presents new robot partner in Romania

07.02.2020 | The Robotics Division of Yaskawa Europe GmbH, one of the world's leading providers of robot technology, wants to expand its business in Eastern Europe and concludes a contract with Normandia. Founded in 1992 in Brasov, Romania, Normandia is a specialist in industrial automation, installation and service of systems and robots. With a new sales and service partner in Europe, Yaskawa underlines its ambitions to have a stronger presence in Europe and to operate closer to the customer.

“Many of our customers are already active in Romania and have production facilities in Romania. With the partnership, we want to enable them to provide even better service on site." Otwin Kleinschmid, Division Manager Robotics Germany.

“Our market offers a lot of potential for automation with robots. We are delighted that the globally renowned and successful manufacturer Yaskawa has chosen us as a partner." Nicholas Plesea, Chief Executive Officer of Normandy.

Current robot market

The robot market is according to figures from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) over the past seven years as of today on average 26% grown. In the whole of Europe, however, only an average of 7% was achieved. With a robot density per 10.000 employees between 20 and 50, Romania is still in the lower range and accordingly has a lot of upside potential. The global average was most recently 99 robots per 10.000 employees.

Bruno Schnekenburger becomes CEO of Yaskawa Europe

02.04.2019 | Manfred Star (r.), previously President and CEO and a member of the Management Board for more than eleven years, handed over the operational management of Yaskawa Europe on March 1 Bruno Schnekenburger, previously COO of the company and before that responsible for the robot division for more than four years. Manfred Stern will continue as Regional Head of Yaskawa Europe.

"We can look back on a decade of major changes and major economic successes," explains Manfred Stern, the 2008 was appointed as the first Europeans in the management of the European subsidiary of the Japanese technology group.

"Since 2010 Not only did we succeed in significantly expanding our presence in Europe with average double-digit sales growth, but we were also able to restructure the management so that we now have a team of internationally experienced European managers. Based on the most recent turnover of 600 million euros and more than 1900 employees, we want to position the management in such a way that we can now initiate the next steps in our growth strategy," continued Stern.

"Bruno Schnekenburger has made a major contribution to the company's success over the past few years and is thus ideally qualified to take on the position of CEO," says Stern, who will in future mainly focus on networking with associations, social groups and the Yaskawa Europe Focus on politics.

Who is Yaskawa?

Yaskawa is a leading manufacturer of automation solutions and robots. The company was founded in Japan in 1915 and has had a clear vision ever since: to move the world forward with the products and technologies developed by Yaskawa. The focus is on people and it is about creating and maintaining jobs that are more efficient, safer and more pleasant. Other central topics are energy efficiency and the environment. Yaskawa aims to offer sustainable solutions that save energy and conserve resources.