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KUKA opens first overseas unit in city
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Germany’s leading robot manufacturer KUKA aims to grab a bigger share of the market in China with its first overseas plant launched in Shanghai yesterday.
The company, which sold about 3,000 robots in China last year accounting for 20 percent of the country’s market, wants to “grow further” here, KUKA AG Chief Executive Till Reuter said at an inauguration event for its new facility.
The plant, in suburban Songjiang District, is capable of churning out 5,000 robots a year and brings 350 jobs. It will allow for shorter delivery times and shorten the distance with customers across Asia, KUKA said. Production already started at the end of last year.
Rising labor costs and industrial upgrading are spurring automation solutions in China, which is expected to become the largest industrial robot market this year, said Xu Jianguo, head of the new Shanghai Robot Industry Association.
While global leaders like KUKA and ABB currently dominate China’s high-end industrial robot market, the country wants domestic makers to account for more than 45 percent of the sector by the end of this decade.
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