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SCHUNK is a global leader in toolholding and workholding, gripping technology, and automation technology. Their extensive product range includes gripping systems, automation components, toolholding systems, and workholding solutions, catering to industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, and life sciences. SCHUNK emphasizes innovation, precision, and reliability, offering advanced solutions like electric grippers, magnetic grippers, and adhesive grippers to enhance manufacturing efficiency. With approximately 3,700 employees across 8 plants and 34 subsidiaries in over 50 countries, SCHUNK provides comprehensive support and services to its global clientele.
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SCHUNK receives German innovation prize for climate and environment (IKU)

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action awarded the innovative ADHESO gripping technology from SCHUNK with the IKU 2022. The bio-inspired, energy-saving method of handling facilitates sustainable automation processes in many areas. SCHUNK developed the technology together with the startup company INNOCISE.

New solutions for new challenges

Automation without risk – this is what beginners and experts in automation both want. At automatica, the leading trade show for intelligent automation and robotics, application expert SCHUNK will be showing new ways as well as clever digital services that enable customers to master their tasks and design production processes flexibly and efficiently.

THE INVISIBLE FORCE IN WORKPIECE HANDLING

Minimal interfering contour, short cycle times, and high energy efficiency – SCHUNK magnetic grippers offer a vast array of advantages. They handle ferromagnetic parts reliably over the long term and leave no traces. Two new variants now provide even more design freedom for robotic applications.

INNOVATION PARTNER FOR LIFE

The manufacturing industry holds a key position in the life science sector. After all, when manufacturing sensitive products that come into direct contact with people, reliable system components are an absolute must. Right in the thick of it: High-tech components from SCHUNK. They meet the requirements for manufacturing quality and reliability. For more than 30 years, the family-owned company has been supplying customers from the medical technology and laboratory automation sectors with standard products and customized solutions.

SCHUNK OPENS NEW COLABS IN CHINA AND THE USA

Automation without risk – That's exactly what's demanded by both automation novices and professionals who want to make their processes even faster, more reliable, and safer. SCHUNK offers a practical approach to solving this problem. Since the beginning of the year, planned applications can be validated at the SCHUNK robotics application center CoLab in Brackenheim-Hausen under realistic conditions. A successful model that SCHUNK is now also exporting to China and the USA.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE UNIVERSAL GRIPPER

With the new optimized 2-finger parallel gripper JGP-P, SCHUNK is further expanding its series of universal grippers alongside the SCHUNK flagship PGN-plus-P. The successor of the JGP scores with a higher gripping force, flexibility in application, and a variety of monitoring options. Therefore, the gripping system specialist continues to raise the bar for the category of an optimized price-performance ratio for pneumatic grippers.

NEW GENERATION OF CLAMPING FORCE BLOCKS OFFERS A HIGH DIVERSITY OF VARIANTS

Always one step ahead: SCHUNK was the first company to launch clamping force blocks on the market. The TANDEM3 modular system continues this success story: The new series replaces the existing TANDEM-plus modular system and expands the portfolio with numerous variants. SCHUNK offers more solutions and services for workpiece clamping in its standard range than any other company and paves the way for their use in automated machine loading.

SCHUNK SHOWS THAT THERE IS A LOT GOING ON

Consulting visitors of our show booth online directly from the Robot Application Center of our Hausen location – everything is possible these days. SCHUNK will give a foretaste at this year's SPS from November 23 to 25, 2021 in Nuremberg. Customers will experience various solutions for smart and intelligent automation processes at the multimedia booth. Application experts will guide you through various fields of application in a personal technical exchange or a direct live connection to SCHUNK.

SMART TO THE POWER OF TWO: THE NEW ITENDO2

Milling, countersinking or micro-cutting ─ the intelligent iTENDO toolholder has already proven its merit in a number of applications. Now its successor is being launched on the market: the iTENDO2 is more compact, more powerful and offers significantly more possibilities for applications.

DIGITALIZATION AT 30,000 RPM

Walking from booth to booth, talking to experts, touching products and seeing them in action. All of this will be possible again at EMO in Milan. The leading trade show for metalworking is offering the opportunity of an international industry event from October 4 to 9, 2021. SCHUNK will be there presenting innovative solutions for automated, flexible, and sustainable manufacturing. The highlight of process digitalization: the even more powerful iTENDO² smart toolholder.

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