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North American gross sales have elevated 24% within the first 9 months of 2022 in comparison with the identical interval in 2021. | Source: A3
North American industrial robotic gross sales are on observe to achieve document highs for the second 12 months in a row in keeping with the Association of Advancing Automation (A3).
North American corporations bought 35,804 models valued at $1.875 billion within the first 9 months of the 12 months, from January to September, 2022. This is a 24% improve in models ordered and a 27% improve in income over the identical interval in 2021, setting the business as much as break data once more in 2022.
“Ongoing labor shortages, easier-to-use robotic solutions and new industries embracing robotics, such as restaurants, retail, construction and even agriculture, have led to record units sold here in North America this year,” Jeff Burnstein, president of A3, mentioned. “Investing in automation is increasingly seen as a necessary step for performing many of the difficult-to-staff tasks that are necessary to compete today, and we see 2022 ending on another record high.”
While Q3 gross sales have dipped barely from Q2, which noticed record-high quarterly gross sales, it nonetheless outperformed Q3 of final 12 months. In Q3 of this 12 months, North American corporations ordered 11,901 robots valued at $626 million. This is a 20% and 22% improve respectively over Q3 of final 12 months.
A majority of gross sales, round 55% went to automotive-related clients, whereas 45% went to non-automotive clients. Non-automotive gross sales noticed will increase throughout Q3 in comparison with the identical quarter final 12 months in semiconductor and electronics, which made up 44% of gross sales, life sciences, 33% of gross sales, and meals and client good, which made up 1% of gross sales.
Sales within the automotive business drove the record-breaking numbers the business noticed throughout Q1 and Q2 of 2022. While automotive gross sales have historically been the spine of the business, that pattern started shifting in 2020, when non-automotive gross sales outpaced automotive gross sales for the primary time. Non-automotive gross sales have continued to outpace automotive gross sales by means of 2021 and into 2022 till Q2.
It must be famous that A3 solely collects gross sales knowledge on conventional industrial robots. It doesn’t gather knowledge about autonomous cell robots or collaborative robotic arms. If A3 recorded gross sales for most of these robots, too, the gross sales numbers can be even larger.