- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is to acquire Pollux, a Joinville, Brazil-based provider of industrial robotics and automation solutions
- The amount of the deal – whose completion subject to customary closing conditions, not disclosed
- The acquisition will expand Accenture’s capabilities for clients in consumer goods, pharmaceutical and automotive industries seeking to make their factories
- Founded in 1996 and led by José Rizzo Hahn Filho, CEO, Pollux also provides solutions to optimize manufacturing and logistics processes
- The company designs, engineers and deploys fully functional assembly lines that include robots and other hardware, plus the software that controls them
- Pollux also offers visual analytics inspection solutions, autonomous mobile robots and robots as a service for shopfloors and warehouses
