# Yaskawa breaks ground on first European robot factory in Slovenia

Yaskawa held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 2, 2017 for its first European robot factory in Kocevje, Slovenia, with an investment of €25 million and expected to create 200 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-11-09
- Where: Kocevje, Slovenia, Slovenia
- Value: $29.0M (25.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 200
- Starts operating: 2018
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: cover around 80 percent of European demand for robots
- Products: industrial robots, Motoman robots
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [Yaskawa](https://endata.com/companies/16432.md)

## Sources

- [polyformnext.de](https://www.polyformnext.de/news-en/yaskawa-builds-robot-factory.htm), 2017-11-09: "We are thus consistently implementing our strategy of offering premium customer service."
- [maschinenmarkt.ch](https://www.maschinenmarkt.ch/yaskawa-spatenstich-fuer-roboterfabrik-in-slowenien-a-669025/), 2017-12-06: "Yaskawa verstärkt seine Präsenz in Europa und baut die erste europäische Roboterfabrik im slowenischen Kočevje."

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