ARO Division
The ARO Welding Technologies group is widely regarded as the world leader in resistance welding technology, providing the automotive manufacturing industry with advanced robotic, manual and stationary welding solutions. An acronym of the original company founder’ name, Albert Rolland, who began by producing welding machines for the auto body repair market in 1949, the ARO group is headquartered in Chateau-du-Loir near Le Mans in France, home of the famous 24 hour motor race. Today ARO also produces its state-of-the-art welding equipment in the United States and in China and serves its global automotive clients via a network of subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the UK. ARO became part of the Langley group in 2006 and was formerly part of the German MDAX engineering group, IWKA AG.