India, Feb. 9 -- ACG Kinna Automatic attracted considerable crowds to its stand at the recent Hemitextil home textiles exhibition in Frankfurt.
The company, which is based in Skene in Sweden, provided dramatic live demonstrations of its new robotic pillow filling system which has the ability to fill and finish some 3,840 pillows per eight-hour shift. This is a considerable improvement on what is currently possible with either manual or semi-automatic systems, resulting in significant savings in both labour and energy for busy home textile businesses.
The technology is based on two robotic arms from Japan's Fanuc - the world's biggest robotics brand - which have been specially modified by ACG Kinna with advanced gripping tools and seaming ...