Manufacturing Today Issue - 246 March 2026 | Page 177

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lanco
From concept development to installation, Lanco is helping to revolutionize the future of manufacturing, driving productivity higher, accelerating efficiency, and helping businesses achieve measurable success on a global scale. Over the past 35 years, the company has manufactured more than 8000 assembly systems across the world, boasting longstanding legacies with its customers that go back decades. Manufacturing Today sits down with Bob Kuniega, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lanco, along with Barry Rahimian, Global Vice President of Sales and Business Development, to dive deeper into Lanco’ s scope of capabilities and how its high-performance culture drives innovation and lasting partnerships. Barry begins the conversation by offering an introduction to Lanco and its journey thus far.
“ Lanco designs very high precision engineered automation solutions that are used in production of devices for four main vertical markets: medical and life sciences, Tier One automotive, industrial, and US Government projects,” he details.“ The company started out in Switzerland in 1874, and, over the course of the following decades, an automation group was formed out of the original organization. That group entered the US market and Lanco was formed and structured via a reverse purchasing of the business. Its headquarters was then transferred to the US, and since that time, we’ ve established other locations throughout
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