Sept. 7, 2023 - The Board of VDMA Robotics has appointed Thomas Hähn, founder and CEO of United Robotics Group, as a new member of the Board. With this appointment, Thomas Hähn succeeds Daniel Bunse, formerly CEO of Rethink Robotics, who resigned from the VDMA Robotics board for statutory reasons. "With my now 30 years of experience in factory automation, industrial robotics and service robotics, I am pleased to be able to promote the plurality of the VDMA Robotics Group. As a member of the board, I would like to work to sustainably secure the competitiveness of Germany and Europe as a business location," says Thomas Hähn.
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The VDMA represents more than 3,600 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies. The industry stands for innovation, export orientation and SMEs. The companies employ around 3 million people in the EU-27, more than 1.2 million of them in Germany alone. This makes mechanical and plant engineering the largest employer among the capital goods industries, both in the EU-27 and in Germany.
In the European Union, it represents a turnover volume of an estimated 860 billion euros. Around 80 percent of the machinery sold in the EU comes from a manufacturing plant in the domestic market.
