# Yaskawa Electric to build €25M industrial robot plant in Slovenia

Yaskawa Electric Corporation will build a €25 million plant for industrial robots in Kočevje, Slovenia. Construction is expected to start in summer 2017, with regular production beginning in 2019. The plant will employ over 200 workers and have an initial capacity of 4,000 robots per year.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-02-01
- Where: Kočevje, Slovenia, Slovenia
- Value: $27.0M (25.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 200
- Starts operating: 2019
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 4000 robots per year
- Products: industrial robots
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [Yaskawa Electric Corp.](https://endata.com/companies/16371.md)

## Sources

- [balkanengineer.com](https://balkanengineer.com/news/yaskawa-electric-build-plant-industrial-robots-25-million-euro), 2017-02-01: "The Japanese company Yaskawa Electric Corporation will build a plant for the production of industrial robots worth 25 million euro in the southern province of Kotsevie in Slovenia."

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