CRAILSHEIM, GERMANY — Gerhard Schubert GmbH, a German packaging machinery manufacturer, announced on June 24 its future plans involving automation, robots and new management.
The company had a successful fiscal year in 2020 despite the challenge of the pandemic, experiencing a 25% increase in orders compared to 2019. The group is riding that wave of momentum into 2021, already having secured its full amount of annual turnover for the year and beginning to place new orders into 2022.
The construction of a new assembly facility will also begin in the second half of 2021. The company said this will create the space and conditions for up to 300 additional employees.
Johannes Schubert will be joining the leadership ranks and pushing the family-owned business forward, as the grandson of the company founder Gerhard Schubert and son of Gerald Schubert . He assumed the role of managing director in a major subsidiary of the company on July 1.
Schubert said that his grandfather was very influential in his career path.
The cobots automate simple manual processes outside of the of efficient machine sequences and can adapt to new tasks quickly without requiring any programming knowledge. Although it can operate in a protective cell when space is limited, it can also function without a protective cell while maintaining a high level of safety.
