As KUKA AG celebrates its 115th anniversary, KUKA Systems North America LLC of Sterling Heights, Mich, and the Grenzebach Group, headquartered in Hamlar, Germany, have announced that KUKA Systems and Grenzebach will bundle and reinforce their logistics activities for the North-American market.
A subsidiary of Germany-based KUKA AG, a global provider of robotics and systems engineering solutions for automation and industrial production processes, KUKA Systems North America is a leading worldwide supplier of assembly and welding systems and other related machinery, servicing the automotive, aerospace, alternative energy and manufacturing industries. Germany-based Grenzebach Group consists of companies across the world serving markets such as building materials, baggage handling, process engineering and intralogistics.
According to a statement from Brian Keiger, Grenzebach Americas Sales Manager, and former Global Technology Sales Leader for KUKA Systems' Logistics division, the two groups will join together and operate under the Grenzebach Americas name as a part of the Grenzebach Group and will be based out of Farmington Hills, Mich. KUKA Systems North America LLC will continue to focus on its core business of automotive and aerospace, but will remain a support arm for the newly restructured Grenzebach Americas General Industry group. Grenzebach delivers complex automated systems and solutions and is represented in the US with its own subsidiary and production site in Newnan, Ga., since 1988.
In 2010, Grenzebach expanded its activities with Grenzebach - inos Inc. in Detroit, Mich. KUKA and Grenzebach have been working closely together for nearly a decade now, according to Keiger, as Grenzebach has a measurable share in KUKA AG. Through this collaboration, said Keiger, KUKA and Grenzebach will become a strong partner for all logistics applications within the North American market.
"We feel that this merger of groups is beneficial to all of our customers because it broadens our offerings as well as our resource capacity," said Keiger. "Customers will be able to take advantage of these benefits and the transition will be virtually seamless and transparent to our current customers' business. The added benefits of this merger will include: 1) an increased product, solution, and service portfolio, 2) increased resource capacity and availability, and 3) increased leverage in best practices globally. The combined groups' goal is simple: to continue to bring value to our customers better and more consistently than any other company by connecting what's needed with what's possible."
