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An affiliate of personal funding agency Angeles Fairness Companions has acquired Acieta, a Midwest industrial robotics producer and integrator, from Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.). Monetary particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed.
This marks Angeles’ fourth acquisition within the robotics integration sector; it beforehand acquired RōBEX, Mid-State Engineering, and +Vantage. Angeles mentioned the acquisition of Acieta expands the enterprise’ gear tending, welding, and palletizing capabilities throughout a broader set of finish markets together with agriculture, foundry and die, welding and fabrication, and development and constructing merchandise.
Waukesha, Wisc.-based Acieta is a full-service automation options supplier with methods, controls, and software program engineering capabilities developed since its inception in 1983. Acieta mentioned it has put in greater than 5,500 robots because it was based. It’s a FANUC Licensed System Integrator using FANUC Robotics Licensed Service Engineers and FANUC Robotics Grasp Licensed Service Engineers.
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“Our crew is keen to assist construct what we imagine is the nation’s most technically succesful and skilled automation methods integrator,” mentioned Acieta CEO Robby Komljenovic. “This mix is designed to offer our prospects an expanded attain, further sources, and what we view as unmatched trade expertise to advise on optimizing all processes to maximise returns on their robotic gear investments.”
This transaction represents one other key step in Angeles’ technique to construct a scaled robotics integration platform with an expanded manufacturing footprint inside important home markets and a broader give attention to offering a sturdy array of robotic functions to a extra various group of shoppers. Acieta’s mixed 67,000 square-foot manufacturing capability, positioned in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Waukesha, Wisc. will proceed to function. Mixed with the enterprise’ present 140,000-square-foot manufacturing operations, the built-in firm presents prospects vital capability, merchandise, and companies.
“We’re excited concerning the mixture of those two nice firms and imagine within the ongoing progress trajectory of this trade,” mentioned Sam Heischuber, managing director at Angeles Fairness Companions. “Because the manufacturing and logistics sectors proceed to face labor shortages, larger wages, intensifying world competitors, and elevated manufacturing complexity, the necessity for a complicated, robotics automation methods integrator with a nationwide presence ought to solely enhance.”
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