# AESSEAL places £9.7M robot orders for Rotherham factory

AESSEAL placed orders worth £9.7m for 32 robots for its new Factory for the Future in Rotherham, including six robotic machine tool cells and 26 auto-store robots, as part of a larger £61m investment.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2023-09-11
- Where: Rotherham, UK, United Kingdom
- Value: $12.0M (9.70M GBP)
- Starts operating: 2023
- Status: under construction
- Products: mechanical seals, support systems
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md), [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [AESSEAL](https://endata.com/companies/50471.md)

## Sources

- [rothbiz.co.uk](https://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2023/09/news-8186-aesseal-powers-up-rotherham.html), 2023-09-11: "AESSEAL has placed orders with a total value of £9.7m for 32 robots that will help the company to increase productivity by automating mundane processes."
- [rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk](https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/business/ps97m-investment-in-robots-at-rotherhams-engineering-masterpiece-4337192), 2023-09-15: "The surprising thing is that the more we have invested in productivity, the more people the company has employed."

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