ROBOTS INCREASINGLY IN DEMAND IN ASIA-PACIFIC PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR
June 1st, 2010
BY EMMA JACKSON
PAINT companies looking for an edge may very well find themselves turning to robots, as the industry in the Asia-Pacific region increasingly embraces automation. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are indeed replacing employees in paint manufacturing processes and applications of coatings to products such as cars and machinery.
According to data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), more than 40,000 robots around the world were employed in dispensing applications in 2008, and more than half of those were used for ...
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