Jon Oliver Communications - Marketing Agency. Wolverhampton, West Midlands

A furniture component manufacturer has successfully integrated two robots onto an existing processing system at its busy Huddersfield facility.  Using compact articulated design robots has saved over 50% of the space that would be taken up by conventional wood industry gantry or portal type handling systems Read full article

Wolverhampton based coating specialist Cooper Coated Coil (CCC) is competing strongly in existing and new market sectors as a result of a £5 million investment over the past year.  Advanced processes in its new coil coating facility and increased capacity are helping CCC to provide its customers with a competitive edge over lower quality overseas producers. Read full article

Panasonic is no newcomer to robots at its Cardiff microwave oven plant, but the recent trend, with the move to Cell operation, was to concentrate on manual operations. An end-of-line palletising solution installed by Smurfit Kappa Machine Systems has changed this trend with investment in a new FANUC Robotics M410iB palletising robot. Read full article

Garlock’s latest newsletter has now been released and outlines how it has continued to grow despite the recession. Over the past 12 months Garlock has aquired three companies, read more in their winter newsletter

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Following closely the introduction of its first lightweight parallel link design robot, the 0.5Kg M-1iA, FANUC Robotics has now launched its larger 6Kg payload version, the M-3iA.   Available in 4 or 6 axes configurations, the design provides a compact handling solution for machine or system integration.  Read full article