ROBOTS FRESHEN UP THE PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRY
February 1st, 2010
BY EMMA JACKSON
PAINT companies looking for an edge as they recover from the global financial crisis may find a solution in the form of robotics. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are increasingly pushing out the humans who have traditionally helped manufacture paint and coatings or applied it to products such as cars and machinery.
"The market for industrial robots is growing," said Anne Wendel of the European Robotics Association (EUnited Robotics). (NOTE - NAME IS CORRECT) Quoting data from the International Federation of Robotics ...
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