OnRobot opens first German branch
OnRobot has opened its first office in Germany. With the branch in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, the new General Manager Björn Milsch is expanding the company's presence in the DACH and Benelux markets.
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OnRobot has opened its first office in Germany. With the branch in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, the new General Manager Björn Milsch is expanding the company's presence in the DACH and Benelux markets.
Europe's largest blasting plant planned
The technically leading and largest blasting plant in Europe is to be built in Rottenacker on the Danube. The Zell company from Ehingen-Volkersheim has planned a production and dispatch hall measuring around 3,000 square meters, which will be equipped with 56 newly developed and self-built Zell blasting systems.

Incoming orders in the mechanical engineering sector were also disappointing in April, according to the VDMA: compared to the previous year, they fell by eleven percent in real terms. This was the fifth monthly decline in a row.
International Federation of Robotics
The new Secretary General of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) is Dr. Susanne Bieller. The 41-year-old took over the position on May 1, 2019 from Gudrun Litzenberger, who is retiring. Litzenberger is handing over the management of the IFR Statistical Department to Dr. Christopher Müller.

Hirata Engineering Europe is expanding its site in Mainz in response to future development trends in the field of electromobility.
Schunk is investing around 85 million euros in the Brackenheim-Hausen, Mengen, St. Georgen and Morrisville/USA sites by mid-2020, with around 42,000 square meters of additional production and administration space being created.
The Endress+Hauser subsidiary Innovative Sensor Technology is expanding its plant in Ebnat-Kappel, Switzerland.

The Friedhelm Loh Group is once again "Top Employer Germany". This is the eleventh time in a row that the Top Employers Institute has recognized the family-owned company.

Sensor+Test will once again take place in Nuremberg from June 25 to 27. The special theme of this year's trade fair for sensor, measuring and testing technology is sensor and measuring technology for process automation.

Philip Harting, CEO of the Harting Technology Group, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Board of the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (Auma).