Yaskawa Electric's Changzhou expansion advances, targeting annual output of 1,000 industrial robots and 100,000 precision reducers

Yaskawa Electric established Yaskawa (Changzhou) Mechatronics System Co., Ltd. at the end of December 2020 and invested $100 million in expansion; on March 16, 2021, its authorized integrator Jiangsu Thomas published an engineering contracting announcement. The project targets an annual output of 1,000 industrial robots and 100,000 precision reducers, with a construction scale of over 10,000 square meters and total investment in main construction of over 11 million yuan; the new project site covers 138 mu, with 70 mu for phase one, integrating R&D and production of inverters, servo motors, controllers, and more.