KUKA receives largest robot order by a chinese carmaker (GVM)
11 January 2013
KUKA Robotics in China has received an order for 300 KUKA robots from Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM), China's leading maker of off-road vehicles and pickup trucks. The robots will be used on a car body assembly line for spot and arc welding, as well as folding, gluing and handling workpieces, and linking presses.
The order was awarded in the fourth quarter of 2012 and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2013. The order value is in the high single-digit million euro range.
KUKA in China is already the number one supplier of robots in the automotive segment. The GWM order has further added to our market standing in the growing Chinese automotive manufacturing market.
About GWM: Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM) is China's leading maker of off-road vehicles and pickup trucks. The company employs 48,000 persons at its thirty subsidiaries and associated companies. Its main factories in Baoding und Tianjin have a production capacity of 800,000 vehicles per annum. GWM is a privately managed company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, as well as the Chinese mainland. In February 2012, the company opened its first European assembly plant in Bulgaria (information from GWM Web site).