The robots Gropyus says can turn out a timber wall in 16 minutes at its factory in south-west Germany now answer to a court-appointed administrator, with four of the group’s companies before insolvency courts in Germany and Austria. That is according to Berlin’s Charlottenburg district court, which on Thursday appointed lawyer Dr Philipp Hackländer to oversee the factory’s operator, Gropyus Production Richen, and two of the group’s Berlin companies.
“According to the company’s own bankruptcy application, a restructuring plan financed by a third party is possible,” said Alexander Meinschad of creditor association KSV1870, after a court in Wels opened bankruptcy on Thursday over Gropyus Engineering, the Austrian arm…