“Eston selected Beijiao Town, Shunde District, Foshan City as the location for its R&D and production base in South China, based on its unique geographical advantages, convenient transportation conditions and superior business environment.” On June 5, the groundbreaking ceremony of Eston-Cruise Robot R&D and production base in South China was held in Beijiao, Shunde, Foshan. The project will build the South China headquarters enterprise base and co-build the Robot (South China) technology center with CLOOS, a European welding robot leader wholly acquired. Wu Kan, president of Nanjing Eston Automation Co., LTD., said, “The Eston Cruise Robot South China R&D and Production Base project is an important deployment in Eston’s development strategy, and also an important milestone in the development of the economically developed areas in the Pearl River Delta, which will effectively help Eston achieve its long-term strategic goals in South China and even the world.”

At this point, another industry leader officially joined Shunde Beijiao robot industry chain development “group chat”. According to incomplete statistics, Foshan Shunde Beijiao has gathered eight key robot projects, with an annual output value of more than 12 billion yuan.

“In the past 10 days, Beijiao ushered in the climax of the industrial start and production harvest season, on this thriving site, in addition to the United States Kuka robot, Philips del Mar and many robot projects are in full swing, including Eston, Zhongshicheng, Zhongda Lide, Tuoyo, etc. These well-known robot enterprises are starting, capping and preparing to put into production in Beijiao District of Sanlong Bay.” “After years of cultivation, Beijiao has truly been built into a core base for robot production,” said Tang Leijing, a member of the Standing Committee of Shunde District Party Committee, head of the United Front Work Department and party secretary of Beijiao Town.

According to the reporter, the Eston-Cruise robot South China research and development production base project project covers an area of about 20 acres, the total planned building capacity area of about 33,000 square meters, will build the South China headquarters enterprise base, and its wholly-owned acquisition of the European welding robot leader CLOOS to build a robot (South China) technology research and development center.

The project will make full use of CLOOS’s leading welding technology and Estun’s advantages in standardized robots, actively develop the market of welding robots, Estun robots and servo products in South China, integrate the superior technical resources of robots, intelligent equipment, Internet of things, artificial intelligence, etc., build an intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, form an industrial cluster, and expand the industrial chain. And radiation to drive the development and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing industry in South China.

“Today, Beijiao is no longer a traditional home appliance town, and has gradually realized a gorgeous turn from a strong manufacturing town to a strong technology town.” Tang Leijing said that Eston’s choice of Beijiao is a recognition of Beijiao’s business environment and industrial development, and also further strengthens Shunde and Beijiao’s determination to do a good job and strengthen the robot industry, “but also will add new impetus and save new momentum for Beijiao robot industry to push 10 billion level and 100 billion level.”

Domestic industrial robot leader robot shipments reached 18,000 units last year

“Eston was founded in 1993, and this year is our 30th year, and for these 30 years we have only done one thing, that is industrial automation. We help a variety of factories transform labor-intensive production lines into automated, digital and intelligent production lines, helping the high-quality development of China’s manufacturing industry.” Wu Kan introduced that after the company went public in 2015, it also made full use of the dividends of the Chinese capital market and carried out a series of overseas mergers and acquisitions, including Trio in the UK, Cloos in Germany, and M.A.i in Germany. The company and other leading companies in global segments have further strengthened the company’s leading capabilities in the field of core components of intelligent equipment, motion control systems, and robotics and intelligent manufacturing.

Data show that Eston 2022 annual revenue of 3.88 billion yuan, an increase of 28.49%, 2022 annual robot shipments of 18,000 units. According to MIR Rui Industry’s “China Industrial Robot Market Annual Report 2022”, in the shipment ranking of domestic robot manufacturers, Eston once again became the domestic robot enterprise with the highest shipments of overall industrial robots and domestic six-joint industrial robots, and entered the global industrial robot brand in the Chinese market shipment ranking TOP10 for four consecutive years.

“Robot intelligent manufacturing is the trend of The Times, and the substitution of localization is unstoppable. I believe Shunde Base can undertake the goal of serving the manufacturing industry and customers in South China, and become a bridgehead in South China.” Wu Kan said.