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Yaskawa empieza la construcción de su sede central en BavieraYaskawa Begins the construction of his central headquarters in Baviera
17 October 2011
The Japanese company
Yaskawa, one of the main manufacturers of industrial robots and technology of accionamientos is expanding his European base in Allershausen, near of Munich, Germany. The works of construction of the new central headquarters began officially the past 6 September with a ceremony of placing of the first stone according to the Japanese tradition.
The minister of Economy of Baviera, Martin Zeil, described the ceremony like “a reason of joy for Baviera and Japan” and put the first stone together with the European directors of Yaskawa: Koichi Takamiya (director adviser for Europe, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Japan) and Manfred Stern (COO, Yaskawa Europe GmbH), those who had the help of a robot of two arms SDA10 of Motoman.
Of left to right: Manfred Stern, COO, Yaskawa Europe GmbH; Koichi Takamiya, CEO, board of directors, regional boss of Europe, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Japan; robot Motoman SDA10; Martin Zell, minister of Economy of Baviera; and the Japanese general consul Akira Mizutani. (Source: Yaskawa)
Yaskawa Is investing some 12,5 million euros in the new headquarters. This also is a sign of the big objective that the company has fixed for the European market: “Our aim is to duplicate the number of robots Motoman installed annually in Europe to more than 6.000 in 2015”, explained Manfred Stern, general director of Yaskawa Europe GmbH, with occasion of the ceremony.
Allershausen, the base of Yaskawa for his European activities of business in the field of the robotics, will centre/center particularly in functions of head office, like total support to the customer, investigation and development, specific adaptation of systems and logistical. The new building will house to the 50 additional employees that Yaskawa has intention to draft for these functions until finals of 2012. At the same time these tasks will be like this more centralised/centralized.
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