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Your next capital equipment project in EMEA should not wait for the sea lanes in the Middle East to settle.
Advanced Manufacturing Solutions · August 2026

Your next capital equipment project in EMEA should not wait for the sea lanes in the Middle East to settle.

At Facteon, we have been working on a different answer for our EMEA customers: go overland.

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IWD 2025: Celebrating Women in Engineering – An Interview with Dr Yan Jia
Facteon People · March 2025

IWD 2025: Celebrating Women in Engineering – An Interview with Dr Yan Jia

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we sat down with Dr Yan Jia, Facteon’s Concept Engineering Team Leader, to learn more about her journey, the challenges she has faced, and her vision for the future of women in engineering.

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Robots in automated manufacturing: should you use them?
Robotics · February 2025

Robots in automated manufacturing: should you use them?

As the manufacturing sector continues to evolve, automation has emerged as a key driver of efficiency, scalability, and innovation.  An article published by McKinsey & Company titled “Automation, robotics, and the factory of the future” discusses automating factories, and particularly, automating factories with robots.

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Latest Automatic and Fully Electric Tool Change technology from Facteon
Factory Automation · January 2025

Latest Automatic and Fully Electric Tool Change technology from Facteon

Our latest tool change technology enables our customers to dramatically reduce the amount of downtime, operational costs and health & safety risks during product model changeover events, while maximizing floor space utilization.

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Facteon People: Introducing our Regional Director - North America
Facteon People · October 2023

Facteon People: Introducing our Regional Director - North America

Meet Mark, our newly appointed Regional Director for North America.

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Safety is Built In at Facteon
Smart Manufaturing · June 2023

Safety is Built In at Facteon

At Facteon, compliance to high standards underpins our co-creative design process, ensuring a safe workplace at no cost to your productivity.

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Profiles: Women in Engineering
Facteon People · May 2023

Profiles: Women in Engineering

There are growing career opportunities for women in engineering, where their mindset and skills contribute to a dynamic industry at the forefront of technological change. We ask four of our female staff what drew them into the sector and what it offers them.

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Visit us at EMEX 2022
Smart Manufaturing · May 2023

Visit us at EMEX 2022

Mark your calendars for EMEX 2022 - NZ’s largest technology show for the engineering, manufacturing and electronics industries.

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Lighthouse Factories: Lighting the Path to Manufacturing Success
Smart Manufaturing · April 2023

Lighthouse Factories: Lighting the Path to Manufacturing Success

In the global push to adopt smart manufacturing, certain factories, known as “lighthouses,” are streets ahead, setting new benchmarks—and leading the way.

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Finding and Nurturing the Skilled Future Factory Worker
Factory Automation · April 2023

Finding and Nurturing the Skilled Future Factory Worker

Now that manufacturing is “coming home,” and adopting smart manufacturing, it’s time to build a skilled labor pipeline that will nurture the future factory workforce.

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2023 VEX Robotics World Championship - STEAM-ED Sponsorship Announcement
Sponsorship · March 2023

2023 VEX Robotics World Championship - STEAM-ED Sponsorship Announcement

Facteon is proud to once again sponsor the New Zealand STEAM-ED Robotics team to compete in the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas from April 25 – May 4.

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Role Models are Key when Attracting Women into Engineering
Facteon People · March 2023

Role Models are Key when Attracting Women into Engineering

To recognize International Women’s Day 2023, we spoke with some of our female employees to find out more about diversity in the industry and how we can attract more women into the field.

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