Mercedes assembly lines to be built in Satu Mare

Unio Satu Mare, a manufacturer of technology for the mining and energy industry, is to team up with German company Kuka to produce assembly lines for a new Mercedes car plant in Germany. The partnership will begin next January, and the contract will be worth more than 2 million euros. The assembly lines will be built entirely in Satu Mare and the beneficiary, Kuka, will act only as consultant. “This is a big step for Unio because, through Kuka, it has entered an exclusive and demanding market. It is not easy to move from manufacturing for the mining industry in Valea Jiului to industrial robots in a mere five years,” explained Ioan Craciun, vice-chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Unio currently supplies Kuka with Volvo, Opel and Ford assembly lines under contracts worth more than a million euros a year. Kuka is the number one industrial robot maker in Europe and one of the top companies in the world in its field with factories in ten countries. ZF