Industrial robot/wood handling specialist Manufacturing Automation Resources (MAR) is exhibiting for the first time at the W10 Working with Wood exhibition.

The agency represents Joulin, a French/US manufacturer of wood handling machines and specialist vacuum grippers in the UK and Ireland.

MAR’s association with Joulin began whilst conducting a robot feasibility study for the handling of sawn wood

Joulin had already been looking to find someone with a robotics background to provide technical representation for customers in the UK and Ireland.

MAR has been run by sole trader and manufacturing engineer Ray Bland since the early 1980s.