YMT announced as official UK dealer for Fanuc Robodrill

Marco Ghirardello, Fanuc Europe CEO (centre) pictured with Thomas Hillard (left) and Jack Pascoe (right) from YMT

Industrial automation specialist Fanuc UK has announced that YMT is now its official UK partner for the Robodrill range of CNC compact machining centres. Serving customers across the Midlands and South of England in sectors such as medical, aerospace, automotive and electronics, YMT’s offering now encompasses the full range of Robodrill machining centres, noted for their accuracy, speed and precision when automating tasks such as drilling, milling, cutting and polishing.

The two companies have forged a close relationship over a number of years, primarily as a result of YMT incorporating Fanuc industrial robots into its advanced CNC metal cutting solutions. This next step reflects a natural evolution in their partnership, enabling more precision machining companies to take advantage of the benefits offered by the Fanuc Robodrill.

Nigel House, Fanuc sales manager – Robomachine (UK & Ireland), said: “The synergies between Fanuc and YMT have been apparent for some time. YMT’s core values of loyalty, trust and transparency resonate strongly with the Fanuc brand. Our work with YMT on the industrial robots side has demonstrated the strength of our partnership, and the company is the obvious choice to act as a dealer for our Robodrill range — its automation expertise and capability impressed us from day one. Enhancing YMT’s already impressive portfolio, the Robodrill is a natural extension to its CNC machine tool offering, making the company the go-to supplier for the UK’s precision machining sector.”

Tom Hillard is the sales director for YMT and has been instrumental in driving the Robodrill partnership with Fanuc. Mr Hillard concluded: “For YMT, this new strategic partnership opens doors for us and allows us to support new and existing customers where we have not necessarily been able to in the past. To be associated with the world-renowned Fanuc brand is something that we are extremely proud of and we are sure that we will follow in the success of our robot sales in making this an extremely successful venture for both parties.”