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A long journey: 80 low-cost robots from igus for research at Indian higher-education institutions. German-Indian knowledge transfer with easy-to-operate robot arms fur simple automation tasks.

The icotek Group opened its next foreign branch on 01.05.19. In addition to its existing international offices in Switzerland, the USA, Turkey, France, Italy and the UK, icotek is now also represented in China.

In this series, we will ask industry leaders what their thoughts are regarding the past ten years of the global industry and what their prognosis for the upcoming years looks like. We start the series with Jürgen Prochno, CEO of the German branch of The Lee Company, manufacturer of miniature fluid control products.

Last quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019 has not been a very positive one for Germany, but nevertheless, 2019 still looks to be a positive year as Industry 4.0 and similar advanced technologies start to penetrate deeper into German manufacturing set-up. Going forward, these technologies will become the new growth drivers of German manufacturing industry.