With a turnover of 9,138 million euros in 2020, according to the Packaging Cluster report, the packaging sector has become a driver of the Catalan economy. The 723 companies in the sector installed in Catalonia account for 4.08% of the Catalan GDP, turning the territory into a pole of international attraction for economic activities related to palletizing. Precisely, the capital status of Barcelona in the packaging sector has led to Universal Robots to install the first world center of excellence for packaging and picking in Barcelona.
The center of excellence of the Danish company will generate an economic impact of its own of 15 million euros until 2023, propitiating a great impulse of international attraction for the city. In fact, the center of excellence will become the largest space of operations in the world for collaborative robotics specialized in palletizing solutions, generating new highly qualified jobs that will continue to increase in the coming years. In addition to the center in Barcelona, the company has decided to open two more centers of excellence in Boston and Munich specialized in welding and machine feeding solutions.
The new center will be located at the Universal Robots headquarters in the city of Barcelona, and will concentrate the entire production and creative process of the Danish company’s packaging applications. “The choice of Barcelona to install the largest collaborative robotics operations center for packaging demonstrates the city’s ability to lead the automation of the sector, and the will of Universal Robots to take advantage of the digital and technological talent of the Catalan capital to Generate unprecedented momentum in robotic solutions for the packaging industry. We are convinced that this new center of excellence will make the city a pole of international attraction for the sector”, he assures Jacob Pascual, Regional President SEMEA UK.
A collaborative robotics congress, also in Barcelona
The announcement of the choice of Barcelona to install this center coincides with the celebration of #CollaboratePack, one of the largest collaborative robotics congresses in Europe, also promoted by the Danish company, and which will take place dMay 24 to 27 at Hispack. Under the name #CollaboratePack, the congress will feature the participation of more than 40 speakers specialized in collaborative robotics and will focus on the solutions offered by cobots for the automation of packaging and logistics processes. In a space of more than 1,200 square meters, and within the framework of the Hispack 2022 fair, the congress will offer professionals in the sector more than 24 hours of technological knowledge transfer with the participation of more than 20 collaborative robotics partners, who They will present success stories and the latest robotic palletizing solutions.
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