Adept Technology Expands into Korea

Adept Technology, Inc., has announced its expansion in Korea for its products and the signing of Han Shin Power Tech Co., Ltd. of Korea as an exclusive dealer for Korea. Under the terms of the agreement, Han Shin Power Tech will be the exclusive dealer in Korea for Adept's complete portfolio of robotics, controls, vision and software products. Han Shin Power Tech is a factory automation and engineering solutions provider and robot systems dealer with over 35 years of experience in the business with their factory headquarters near Seoul and a branch office in central Korea. Han Shin Power Tech will also be a stocking dealer of Adept products in Korea, reducing delivery times to customers, and has placed an initial stocking order of Adept Quattro s650 robots and Adept Cobra robots.

"Korea represents an exciting emerging market for Adept, especially with the introduction of our latest products like the Adept Quattro s650 robot for high-speed product handling. We're very excited to partner with Han Shin Power Tech and believe they have a solid combination of marketing, sales, engineering, and support capability to grow the installations throughout Korea," said John Dulchinos, president and chief operating officer for Adept Technology, Inc.

"We believe that Adept robots and vision guidance will lead the Korean handling market and will be the standard most handling market customers will follow. We also believe Adept robotics will enable customers to reduce their costs and raise productivity," said Eric Jin, CEO of Han Shin Power Tech Co., Ltd. "We need to awaken this sleeping market with strong robotic and vision guidance offerings and Adept products will allow us to do so. This partnership will benefit many Korean industries ranging from the food industry to the advanced assembly industry."