Continuing a global relationship that spans more than 20 years, eight-year Kuka Strategic Partner Engel, a company that makes plastic injection molding machines, technologies, and turnkey solutions, has become a Kuka Robotics System Partner. In its new relationship with Kuka, Engel will not only continue to incorporate Kuka robots as standard components in its injection molding solutions but also integrate and retrofit Kuka robotic products into existing plastic injection molding machines and systems.
Engel has used hundreds of Kuka robots for upstream and downstream automation of its injection molding machines and cells since establishing its North American presence. The company relies primarily on Kuka's all-purpose, high-payload Quantec; high-powered, low-payload Cybertec; and versatile medium-payload Iontec robots, all of which provide 6-axis operation and flexibility to customers for virtually any market segment.