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SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG - A Short Profile
20.10.2011 -
"To offer more than the customer expects", this was the motto of Friedrich Schunk, when he opened his machine shop in a garage in Lauffen, Germany, right after the troubles of World War II. Today, SCHUNK is a German innovative family-owned company and a global player all in one.
According to the mission statement "With a pioneering spirit and perfection, we are setting worldwide standards" Heinz-Dieter Schunk, his son Henrik A. Schunk and his daughter Kristina I. Schunk manage the company. With more than 1,800 employees and a worldwide network of directly owned subsidiaries and distribution partners in more than 50 countries all over the world, SCHUNK is known as the competence leader for clamping technology and gripping systems.
The business unit clamping technology comprises toolholding systems, stationary workholding, lathe chucks, chuck jaws, special hydraulic expansion technology solutions and magnetic technology. The business unit gripping systems produces and distributes gripping modules, rotary modules, linear modules, robot accessories, modular assembly automation as well as automated solutions. The third and youngest business unit is the SCHUNK laser technology.
A double strategy is pursued by the owner family in terms of the product program: on the one hand, they promote the technical development and continuously explore new niches. On the other hand, the company is constantly improving the quality of its existing products. Thus, the world’s largest product portfolio of standard chuck jaws (1,200 standard chuck jaws) was developed, the most extensive range of clamping technology (more than 10,000 standard products), as well as the world’s largest product program for standard grippers (more than 10,000 components).
Over the past 25 years, SCHUNK has grown by more than 12% on average. In 1983, the company had just about 100 employees; twenty years later in 2003 there were already 1,000, ten times as much as in 1983. Today, more than 1,800 people all over the world are part of the SCHUNK family, thereof about 1,400 in Germany. For his life’s work, Heinz-Dieter Schunk was awarded the German Machine Tool Industry Award in 2008. In 2010, he received the Engelberger Robotics Award, the worldwide most prestigious award in the robotics field.
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