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News Release from: Vipa
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2007
PLC/PC distributors appointed in Ireland
A German PLC and PC control systems manufacturer, VIPA, has appointed two distributors for Ireland: ACI - Automated Components Ireland and Engineering Automation Solutions.
VIPA, the leading German PLC and PC control solutions manufacturer has appointed two new distributors to provide complete sales and support for its growing interests in the buoyant high-tech Irish manufacturing industry ACI - Automated Components Ireland is part of the PAK Automation Group, established in County Dublin in 1983 with interests in packaging automation and robotics through its subsidiary companies PAK Automation and Automation and Robotics Ireland
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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