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Our Global Strategic
Manufacturing Alliance
Delivering Excellence at Highest Production Standards
A Global Leader in Innovative End-to-End Product Lifecycle Solutions
Circus Group has partnered with Celestica to manufacture our CA-1 Robots. This strategic alliance allows Circus to scale its supply chain and meet the rising demand for its innovative technology in the automated food service market. The CA-1 product , will benefit from Celestica's extensive manufacturing expertise and global reach.
This partnership addresses the challenge of scalability and streamlines Circus Group's supply chain. It also enhances the company's ability to serve its growing customer base globally. Both companies view this as a key move in their business strategies and a significant step towards further collaboration.
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9.65
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revenue in 2024
40+
locations
in 16 countries
27,000+
Employees
worldwide
100+
Customer
across multiple markets
Advanced manufacturing built for the most demanding industries
30+ Years of Experience
Part of IBM and founded in 1994, Celestica brings decades of manufacturing expertise.
24k Employees
Delivering high-reliability manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering services.
40+ Production Sites
A gloabal network of production sites in 15 countries inclunding EU, US, Mexico & Asia.
Global Manufacturing Excellence
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada Celestica is a leader in high-reliability design, manufacturing and supply chain solutions that brings global expertise at every stage of product development – from concept and design to full-scale production and after-market services.
End-to-End Manufacturing
Services along the Entire Product Life Cycle
Comprehensive After-Sales Service & Support Offering
30+
Years of Experience
Part of IBM and founded in 1994, Celestica brings decades of manufacturing expertise.
24K+
Years of Experience
Delivering high-reliability manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering services.
Toronto, Canada
Years of Experience
Following highest standards in quality, compliance, and transparency.
40 +
Years of Experience
A gloabal network of production sites in 15 countries inclunding EU, US, Mexico & Asia.
Supporting our ability to scale up production across the entire manufacturing lifecycle
Circus and Celestica combine visionary product design with engineering expertise to ensure our CA-1 solution is manufacturable, scalable, and of high-quality.
Supporting Circus with a resilient, globally connected supply chain, Celestica secures the operational backbone for smooth production and delivery of the CA-1 robots.
Celestica’s proven NPI processes helps Circus reduce time-to-market,
manage production ramp-up, and bring our vision to life.
With Celestica’s support, we’re testing everything from robotics to food safety to continuously enhance reliability, performance, and scalability from prototype to production.
Celestica handles the precision manufacturing of key CA-1 components, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Post-launch, Celestica ensures serviceability and long-term reliability for all deployed CA-1 units. So we can deliver the best experience to our customers and partners.
Sustainability at Celestica a partner with shared values
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Responsible Supply Chain Operations
Celestica’s supply chain management ensures that every component used in Circus systems is sourced responsibly, manufactured sustainably, and delivered reliably.
From ethical sourcing and chemical compliance to high-standard material testing and supplier audits, we rely on Celestica to maintain quality and integrity across the entire supply network — securing the foundation for scalable, global operations.
Responsible Supply Chain Operations
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Enabling Sustainable Products
Together with Celestica, Circus is building smarter, more sustainable products that shape the future of food.
Celestica’s experience in high-reliability design and supply chain solutions supports our mission to create energy-efficient, long-lasting robotics — reducing environmental impact while improving operational performance.
As we expand globally, this partnership helps us scale sustainably, meet evolving standards, and contribute to a cleaner, greener future.
Enabling Sustainable Products
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Reliable After-Market Services
To support the lifecycle of our autonomous kitchens, Circus leverages Celestica’s After-Market Services network — ensuring reliable repair, reuse, and end-of-life management.
Across nine global sites, Celestica enables us to extend product life and reduce waste through responsible disassembly and component recovery, contributing to a circular economy.
This reduces landfill impact and keeps our technology operating at peak performance, even years after deployment.
Reliable After-Market Services
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Waste reduction through circular design
Circus benefits from Celestica’s Hardware Platform Solutions (HPS), which are designed with sustainability, modularity, and efficiency in mind.
Their investment in next-gen platforms helps us reduce material waste, streamline our product architecture, and meet environmental compliance across the entire lifecycle — from sourcing to recycling.
With these shared principles, we’re manufacturing energy-efficient, modular units that are built to evolve — and be responsibly reused, remanufactured, or recycled.
Waste reduction through circular design
Stay updated on our production progress.
Serial Production Ramps Up with Full Component Readiness
Serial Production Ramps Up with Full Component Readiness
July is a busy month at the factory. 100% components are being received on site after huge effort from the supply chain team to achieve this critical milestone. Also it means the assembly line is now running at the highest capacity to date. As this is the first time we have taken CA-1 through the industrial NPI process, we have taken a thorough and detailed approach on every single assembly step. Each component being added to CA-1 is reviewed and recorded through the assembly steps. Each wire we have connected is being tested and validated. This set us up a strong foundation for the volume ramp up.
Component testing & preparation
All key components are now being tested at component level so it is ready for next steps. A significant amount of components have gone through the technical pre-configuration process so they are ready to be assembled into the sub-assembly level. This ensures we have traceability of all key components within the system.
Assembly progress
Several core sub-assembly modules are now completed. They are now going through testing procedures to ensure performance is at its highest level.
Core system integration
We have started integrating and validating systems from several core suppliers at modular level. Including Robot arm, temperature control system and dishwashing systems.
Deployment preparation
We have not only focused on getting the product built. The production facility has been busy supporting what will be happening throughout the development phase of the CA-1 at the customer’s site. This includes but not limited to Packaging preparation to minimise the installation time, Producing maintenance stock so we have speedy response and recovery infrastructure, Logistic preparation so we have capability of delivery CA-1 to anywhere in the world!
Keeping progress on track
Circus group and Celestica team has been fully integrated and performing at the highest level. The governance framework, simultaneous engineering and seamless communication has leveraged the potential of collaboration between Europe, North America and Asia. But we are not stopping here. Next month the Circus group technical team will be present onsite in the factory to do the final push of CA-1 rolling off the production line. More exciting updates to come!
CA-1 Serial Production in Full Execution
CA-1 Serial Production in Full Execution
As of June the CA-1 serial production is now in full execution mode after the intense product engineering and manufacturing engineering phase. We are starting to see the full speed of CA-1 serial production coming to reality after the intense preparation of factory facility and supply chain preparation work.
Global Supply chain
Key supplier nomination completed. Final DFM document released to supplier. Parts starting to be received in the production facility. Intense supply chain engagement with all suppliers happened with onsite visits and frequent reviews to ensure timely delivery of all components. In total more than 29,000 components per CA-1 are being shipped from all over the world to our production facility.
Quality control
All inbound goods are being inspected 100% by a quality team to ensure highest quality for the serial production. Unqualified parts are being identified and isolated from the process. Supplier quality engineering teams are in close contact with the Circus engineering team and suppliers to validate all quality related engineering actions are closed off before starting assembly.
Serial production testing procedure
The Circus team has spent a huge amount of effort establishing the step by step automated testing procedure that will be used in all parts of production processes in serial production. This includes testing protocols all the way from component level, sub-assembly level and full system level functional testing. This ensures again we achieve the highest product quality when we deliver the CA-1 to our customer.
Start of first assembly
Benefiting from our modular architecture and DFM mindset during the design phase, we were able to kick off sub-assembly of core CA-1 modules ahead of schedule. This proves that the manufacturing processes established in the previous phase are of high quality. This also allows us having additional time for functional validation and testing.