# Yaskawa opens robot production facility in Kočevje, Slovenia

Yaskawa officially opened its new robot production facility and European robotics development center in Kočevje, Slovenia, after two years of construction. The €25 million plant will produce up to 10,000 Motoman robots per year and create up to 150 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-05-06
- Where: Kočevje, Slovenia, Slovenia
- Value: $28.0M (25.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 150
- Starts operating: 6 May 2019
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 10,000 Motoman robots per year
- Products: Motoman GP series industrial robots
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

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

## Sources

- [roboticsandautomationnews.com](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2019/05/06/yaskawa-opens-new-production-facility-in-slovenia/22207/), 2019-05-06: "Following two years of construction, Japanese technology group Yaskawa has officially opened its new robot production facility with European robotics development center at Kočevje, Slovenia."
- [intellinews.com](https://www.intellinews.com/yaskawa-opens-25mn-robot-factory-in-slovenia-160794/), 2019-05-07: "Our goal is to shorten supply chains and delivery times, to enable us to react faster to regional market requirements and our customers' wishes."
- [roboticsandautomationnews.com](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/tag/facility/page/12/), 2019-05-07: "The new plant supplements the existing production facilities in Japan and China and will satisfy about 80 per cent of the European demand for Motoman robots."

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