KUKA Roboter GmbH - KUKA ROBOTICS INSTALLS FIRST STAINLESS STEEL ROBOT IN NORTH AMERICA

KUKA Industrial Robot KR 15 SL (Stainless Steel)Store this angel in big sizeKUKA Stainless Steel Robot Installed by Forte Automation Systems into Dean Foods’ Dairy Product Manufacturing Facility

Clinton Township, Michigan — January 24, 2006 – KUKA Robotics Corporation, a arch all-around architect of automated robots, today appear its arrangement partner, Forte Automation Systems, has installed a KUKA KR 15 SL stainless animate apprentice into Dean Foods’ dairy artefact accomplishment facility. The apprentice is the aboriginal stainless animate apprentice to be installed in North America. Dean Foods, a analysis of PET Dairies LLC, is application the KUKA KR 15 SL apprentice in its dairy case packing process.

“KUKA Robotics’ stainless animate robots accept been alive in abounding applications & industries in Europe and we are admiring to be able to action our North American barter this advantage as well,” said Joe Campbell, administrator of cardinal alliances for KUKA Robotics Corporation. “Food accomplishment in accurate requires acutely acrimonious sterility standards and stainless animate is the optimum actual to accommodated these requirements.”

“Dean Foods came to us defective to access their case packing assembly application their accepted staff,” said Toby Henderson, admiral of Forte Automation Systems. “We advised their ability and bent that the KUKA KR 15 SL with its stainless animate exoteric would added than accommodated their ablution down requirements and chargeless up at atomic 4 employees.”

The KUKA KR 15 SL apprentice is a six-axis articulate apprentice is fabricated of stainless steel. The use of stainless animate and the robot’s top IP appraisement makes it acceptable for all applications with acrimonious requirements for hygiene, sterility and absence of particles such as appropriate in the aliment and acknowledgment or medical industries.

Dean Foods is one of the arch aliment and acknowledgment companies in the United States. Its Dairy Group is the better processor and benefactor of beginning milk and added dairy articles in the country, with articles awash beneath added than 50 accustomed bounded and bounded brands and a advanced arrangement of clandestine labels. The company's WhiteWave Foods accessory is the nation's arch amoebic foods company. Dean Foods aswell owns the fourth better dairy processor in Spain and the arch casting of amoebic dairy articles in the United Kingdom. More advice on the aggregation and its articles can be begin on its web website at www.deanfoods.com.

Forte Automation Systems is a arrangement integrator specializing in amalgam automatic solutions with case packaging, raw aliment processing, and palletizing for the aliment and acknowledgment industry. More advice on the aggregation and its articles can be begin on its web website at www.forteautomation.com.

KUKA Robotics Corporation, with its ancestor aggregation KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, is one of the world's arch manufacturers of automated robots, with an anniversary assembly aggregate abutting 10,000 units, and an installed abject of over 60,000 units. The company’s 5 and 6 arbor robots ambit from 3kg to 500kg payloads, and 635mm to 3700mm reach, all controlled from a accepted PC based ambassador platform. KUKA robots are activated in a assorted ambit of industries including the appliance, automotive, aerospace, chump goods, logistics, food, pharmaceutical, medical, branch and plastics industries and in assorted applications including actual handling, apparatus loading, assembly, packaging, palletizing, welding, bending, joining, and apparent finishing. For added advice acquaintance KUKA Robotics at 866-873-5852 or online at www.kukarobotics.com.

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