Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
November 13, 2019 11:38 am

Adidas to end robotic shoe production in Germany and the US




Image: Adidas

Adidas will halt production at its two robotic “Speedfactories” in the US and Germany, the company has announced. The Ansbach and Atlanta factories, which opened in 2016 and 2017 respectively, will end production by April 2020. Adidas says that the Speedfactory technologies developed will now be used by two of its suppliers in Asia.


Adidas had originally intended to use the heavily automated factories in order to produce its footwear more quickly in locations closer to the company’s key markets. They were intended as an alternative to manufacturing hubs in Asia where labor and overhead are cheaper. However, in a statement to CNN, the company now admits that “it makes more sense to concentrate the production of the Speedfactories where...



Continue reading…




Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962688/adidas-robotic-speedfactories-ansbach-germany-atlanta-usa-athletic-shoes

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

The Verge

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011

More About this Source Visit The Verge