ABB sells its first ever robot manufactured in the US to Hitachi Powdered Metals USA

Source: RoboticsTomorrow Newspage
03/14/17, 09:32 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | ABB Inc. | Jobs / Employment

ABB has sold its first robot manufactured in the United States. The IRB 2600 robot is the first to be produced at the ABB Auburn Hills, Michigan facility, and was sold by ABB Value Provider, CIM SYSTEMS, INC. to Hitachi Powdered Metals USA.  

The compact robot, which is painted with special commemorative red, white and blue paint, will be used for material handling of in-process engine component parts at the Hitachi Greensburg, Indiana facility.  It is the 180th ABB robot at the Hitachi plant, which installed its first ABB robot in 2005. 

“The sale of ABB’s first robot produced in the US to Hitachi is a tremendous milestone in the development of our manufacturing presence in the Americas,”  Full News Release:

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