Sustainability Insights VIIII: Reducing emissions in industry
Small changes, big impact: How a minor adjustment to one of our heavy-duty robots can make an entire production process more sustainable.
Teresa Scheunert
10 September 2025
Society
Reading Time: 3 min.
The demands placed on robots in production are increasing, for example when it comes to handling batteries or gigacasting, in which large car body parts are manufactured from a single casting. Heavy-duty giants such as the KR FORTEC ultra are used for such tasks.
The robot is a real heavy worker and the demands placed on it are diverse in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. But now, it also contributes to more resource-efficient and low-emission production, as Chief Project Manager Markus Theiler explains in our new Sustainability Insights episode:
