Amazon buys Belgian warehouse expertise producer

Amazon is buying Belgian warehouse expertise producer Cloostermans, the e-commerce large confirmed Friday.

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Cloostermans was based in 1884 and has been a privately owned firm for six generations. It builds personalized robotics to be used in warehouses.

“Machines are engineered to order. All undertaking facets may be offered in home: mechanical and electrical engineering, manufacturing, meeting and integration and testing,” the corporate says on its web site.

Amazon Robotics was based in 2012 when the father or mother firm acquired and built-in Massachusetts-based robotics producer Kiva Programs. The deal price $775 million.

The corporate expects the Cloostermans acquisition will make its operations safer, easier and extra productive.

Amazon opened its European Operations Innovation Lab in Might 2021 to develop “superior applied sciences that help safer methods of working.”

Cloostermans’ some 200 staff will be a part of the corporate’s rising presence in Europe.

“Amazon’s investments in robotics and expertise are supporting how we construct a greater and safer office for our staff and ship for our prospects,” Ian Simpson, vice chairman of International Robotics at Amazon, mentioned in an announcement.

“As we proceed to broaden and speed up the robotics and expertise we design, engineer and deploy throughout our operations, we look ahead to welcoming Cloostermans to Amazon and are excited to see what we will construct collectively.”