# Škoda opens new $200 million paint shop featuring 66 robots

Škoda Auto opened a new automotive paint shop at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, featuring 66 industrial robots, capable of coating up to 168,000 car bodies per year.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2019-09-05
- Where: Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, Czechia
- Value: $200.0M
- Starts operating: 5 Sep 2019
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 168,000 car bodies per year
- Products: painted car bodies
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md)

## Companies

- [Škoda Auto](https://endata.com/companies/38637.md)

## Sources

- [roboticsandautomationnews.com](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/tag/plant/page/7/), 2019-10-18: "Škoda Auto has opened a new automotive paint shop at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav, in the Czech Republic, featuring 66 industrial robots configured for applying the paint."

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