SCHUNK is a German family-owned company with approximately 3500 employees worldwide, specializing in and leading global "clamping technology" and "gripping systems":
- Clamping techniques are used mainly in the world of machining and machine tool equipment, but not only that, we also equip, for example, all aeronautical and aerospace companies with Vero-S NSE3 zero-point clamping systems among others.
- Gripping systems are generally used as robotic accessories, but not exclusively; they can equip all automated systems such as special machines, for example, with a large number of accessories allowing the grasping of an object and the execution of a more or less complex movement to move it.
Our history can be found here: History – Innovations and high quality standards – SCHUNK
Our headquarters are located in Lauffen Neckar between Stuttgart and Munich
Schunk Intec France is based in Ferrières en Brie and has 50 employees.
We have 11 manufacturing plants: 8 in Germany, 1 in Switzerland, 1 in Italy, 1 in the USA.
We train a large number of students in our own in-house school from a very young age.
Our philosophy can be found here: Unsere Unternehmensphilosophie — SCHUNK
Schunk is known for being one of the most innovative companies in its fields of activity, and here are the major milestones of Schunk's innovation: Major milestones in innovation — SCHUNK
Our mission is not only to meet our clients' demands, but also to support them in continuous improvements by bringing innovation and always going beyond what they expect.
Our clients are either companies directly or indirectly involved with machine tools, or any type of company whose goal is to automate processes involving gripping.
Types of applications: automated machine tool loading/unloading, geometry referencing for assembly, clamping of mechanical elements, machine tool equipment, robotic gripping of all types of objects from the smallest and lightest to the largest and heaviest, pick and place, robotic finishing, robotic force measurement, medical robotics… etc.
On the important side, we can note that in 2021 alone, SCHUNK received the following awards:
- German innovation award winner 2021 (with our Schunk Adhéso gripper)
- Red Dot winner 2021 (product design)
- Industry 4.0 Talent 2021
- World Market Leader Index 2021
- IHK Education Award 2020
All our awards are listed here: Our awards — SCHUNK
