ABB to make more industrial robots in China

Designed to produce 100,000 industrial and service-function robots a year௼about a quarter of the world’s total production capacity in 2019௼the plant’s products will not only serve the Chinese market but also the overseas markets. The new factory௼with a comprehensive research and development center௼will become a key part of ABB’s global robotics supply system, together with the company’s recently upgraded factory in Vasteras, Sweden, and its factory in Michigan, the United States, according to the Zurich-headquartered company. “As well as our production facility that will serve China and the global markets, we will have a research and development center that will…