Sepro UK Marks 30th Anniversary With Opening of Expanded Robot Sales and Service Center

In April, Sepro UK, a daughter company of French robot maker Sepro Group, celebrates its 30th anniversary with the opening of an expanded sales and service center in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

Since its founding in 1991 as one of the first wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sepro Group, La Roche-sur-Yon, France, Sepro UK has grown with its plastics-industry customers into an important supplier of 3- and 5-axis Cartesian beam robots, and 6-axis articulated-arm robots, as well as automation systems. Its customers include injection molders that serve medical, housewares, construction materials and other markets throughout the United Kingdom.

According to General Manager Glen Eves, the new, 232 m² sales and service center in Lodge Farm Business Centre, Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes, unites robot sales, service, parts, and robot-commissioning activities under one roof. The new facility also houses a Sepro robot training center, complete with working Cartesian and 6-axis robots, where customer technicians can receive hands-on instruction in robotic programming and control.

“Despite the difficult business challenges posed by Brexit and the current pandemic, our team of experts remain 100% dedicated to helping our injection molding customers to use robotics and automation to be more productive and successful,” said Eves, who has led Sepro UK since December 2013. He added that as Sepro UK sales have grown fourfold over the past decade, the organization has continued to focus on customers, investing in strengthening its service team and capabilities. Today, the Sepro UK staff numbers nine overall, including a technical service supervisor and three service engineers.