align="left"> The group of the United States on May 18th announcement confirmed that the company will be the price of 115 euros per share, is expected to will pay no more than 4 billion euros (about 29 billion 200 million yuan) price in cash for the German robotic company KUKA offer.

It is reported that the U.S. Group intends through its wholly owned subsidiaries of Mecca to voluntary takeover offer to the shareholders of the group launched kubica. The acquisition of the source of funds for the syndicated loan and the company's own funds.

KUKA group all of the outstanding common shares for 39 million 775 thousand and 470 shares.

The group of the United States in 2015 August for the first time to buy the shares at the time of the KUKA, group stake of 5.4%. In February this year, the U.S. group will be held by the KUKA shares proportion increased to 10.2%, becoming the second largest shareholder of KUKA company. At present, the group of the United States holds about 13.5% of the shares of KUKA group.

KUKA group in 1898 by Johann Josef Keller and Jakob Knappich set up in Augsburg in germany. KUKA group is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, a par value of 2.6 euros. In 2015, KUKA Group sales revenue of 2 billion 966 million euros, the gross profit was 698 million euros.

The group of the United States said that the acquisition of KUKA group equity, is a key step, in-depth layout of the robotics industry, which is of great strategic significance. After the completion of this transaction, the company by virtue of KUKA group in industrial robots and automated production experience and improve the product line will further enhance the production efficiency and promote the upgrading of manufacturing company, to expand the industrial space B2B.

Up to now the United States robot application has more than 1000 units, investment in the field of plant automation has more than 5 billion yuan, and the United States plans to invest 1 billion yuan per year in the field of industrial robots and production automation. KUKA robotics and automation in industry and other fields to solve the program for many years accumulated a wealth of experience, is the world's leading automotive and general industrial customers to provide long-term innovative solutions, covering medical, electronic, food, consumer goods, aviation, solar and many other industry segments. KUKA will help the United States to further upgrade the manufacturing and automation system, has become a model for Chinese manufacturing advanced production. Company and cooperation will promote the industry's top KUKA automation manufacturing solutions to the general industrial enterprises, and expand.

The company also said that after the completion of this transaction, the company subsidiary of Annto logistics will greatly benefit from the logistics equipment and systems subsidiary KUKA group Switzerland's leading solution grid, improve the efficiency of logistics, third party logistics business development.

Home appliance observers Liu Buchen said that the United States had earlier proposed the "double wisdom" strategy, which refers to the smart home and intelligent manufacturing, respectively, the corresponding service robots and industrial robots. Midea Group Chairman Fang Hongbo also pointed out that the United States to create "second runway" and seek a new direction outside the home appliance business sector, from the United States in recent years the robot input, the robot industry is very likely to "second runway".

The idea of the group of the United States to intervene in the robot industry is to cooperate with the leading robot companies. In 2015 August, the United States and Japan Yaskawa robot giant has established two joint ventures, positioning service robot and industrial robot.