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FANUC Robotics Expands Operations in Brazil

3 June 1998

FANUC Robotics Expands Operations in Brazil

    ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., June 3 -- FANUC Robotics North
America, Inc. has expanded its operations in Brazil by moving into a new
10,000-square-foot facility in the city of Sao Paulo.
    These operations were previously located in a 960-square-foot facility in
that same city, which the company had occupied since 1994.
    "Steady growth throughout the company has prompted our expansion in
Brazil," said Richard Estes, general manager of FANUC Robotics' Latin American
operations.  "We have 11 facilities in the North America/Latin America region.
We recently announced the opening of a new facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico,
to complement the work of our Mexico City facility, and now we've moved our
operations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to a facility more than 10 times the size of
the former one.  The increased capabilities afforded by this expansion allows
us to serve our ever-growing list of customers throughout Latin America in a
timely and cost-efficient manner."
    FANUC Robotics do Brazil, LTDA is a leading supplier of robots and robotic
systems to the automotive industry and other general industries in Brazil.
The majority of the new facility will be dedicated to systems engineering,
assembly, integration and customer demonstrations.  Other facility operations
include system sales, installation, service and training.
    The new facility is located at:
    FANUC Robotics do Brazil, LTDA
    Rua Octaviano Alves de Lima #1536
    CEP 02518-000  Sao Paulo - SP
    Brazil
    Phone:  55-11-3955-0599
    Fax:  55-11-3955-0060

    FANUC Robotics North America, Inc., headquartered in Rochester Hills,
Mich., is the North American robotics industry leader, with 1997 sales of
approximately $370 million.  A subsidiary of FANUC LTD in Japan, the company
has facilities in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Charlotte, North
Carolina; Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio; Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec;
Mexico City and Aguascalientes, Mexico; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.