# ESAB and Yaskawa sign global cooperation agreement for robotic welding cells

ESAB and Yaskawa signed a global cooperation agreement to jointly develop and market a line of pre-engineered robotic welding systems called XCellerator. Yaskawa will engineer and build the systems, and ESAB will market them.

- Type: Partnership
- Announced: 2020-12-21
- Status: announced
- Products: pre-engineered robotic welding systems
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md), [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [Yaskawa](https://endata.com/companies/16432.md) (partner)
- [ESAB Corporation](https://endata.com/companies/18657.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [machinery.co.uk](https://www.machinery.co.uk/content/news/esab-and-yaskawa-sign-collaborative-agreement-for-pre-engineered-robotic-welding-cells), 2020-12-21: "The ESAB Group Inc. and leading robot and robot system company Yaskawa have announced the signing of a global cooperation agreement to jointly develop and market a line of pre-engineered robotic welding systems called XCellerator."
- [automationmagazine.co.uk](https://www.automationmagazine.co.uk/esab-and-yaskawa-to-jointly-develop-a-line-of-pre-engineered-robotic-welding-systems/), 2020-12-21: "The ESAB Group Inc. and leading robot and robot system company YASKAWA have announced the signing of a global cooperation agreement to jointly develop and market a line of pre-engineered robotic welding systems called XCellerator."
- [engineeringsubcontractor.com](https://engineeringsubcontractor.com/news-archive/14-2021/295-esab-and-yaskawa-sign-collaborative-agreement-for-pre-engineered-robotic-welding-cells), 2021-01-18: "ESAB and YASKAWA have signed a global cooperation agreement to jointly develop and market a line of pre-engineered robotic welding systems called XCellerator."

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