Nordbo Mimic supports robotic powder coating at Miltona

Date: 2025-08-15
Type: ARTICLE
Desk: Robotics
Topics: Industrial Robotics, Learning From Demonstration, Robotic Coating
Deck: Danish surface-treatment manufacturer Miltona applied Nordbo Robotics' Mimic teach-by-demonstration system to robotic powder coating, according to a case study published on 15 August 2025.
URL: https://korthosrobotics.com/research/nordbo-miltona-powder-coating-mimic-2025
Referenced profiles: Nordbo Robotics (https://korthosrobotics.com/ecosystem/company/nordbo-robotics)

Image: Nordbo Robotics
Danish surface-treatment manufacturer Miltona applied Nordbo Robotics' Mimic teach-by-demonstration system to robotic powder coating, according to a case study published on 15 August 2025. The company operates a 2,200-square-metre facility in Greve and used operator-demonstrated spray paths to automate variable coating tasks that had still depended on manual application despite automated booths.
Miltona reported coating-thickness variation of 3–5 micrometres with Mimic, compared with 15–25 micrometres for the human-operated process in its tests. Those figures represent customer-reported performance in this application, not a standardized independent comparison across coating materials, part geometries or operators. Nordbo also described reduced powder waste, faster changeovers and improved process consistency, without disclosing production-wide cost savings.
Mimic records a skilled operator’s coating movements and turns them into a robot programme, allowing the process to be adapted when the shape of the workpiece changes. At Miltona, this brings repeatable robot motion to work that previously required manual spraying around the limitations of automated booths. The disclosure provides a specific process-quality comparison, but not the production volume, robot model or unit economics needed to assess broader commercial scale.