This year Comau's service operation is expected to make net sales of euro700m.

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Comau, Fiat's industrial-automation arm, will sell Chrysler the kit to retool its factories.

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It is now trying to sell Teksid, its foundry business, and Comau, which makes robots for car makers such as Ford and GM.

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