KNAPP company profile
KNAPP provides warehouse automation, logistics software and robotic systems for distribution and manufacturing operations. Its solutions include shuttle storage, conveyors, picking systems, autonomous mobile robots and robotic picking for sectors such as healthcare, fashion, retail, food and industrial goods.
Facts
- Segment: Warehouse Logistics
- Country: Austria
- Website: https://www.knapp.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Facts
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Relationships
- Customers and deployments
- Articles
- Sources
Summary
KNAPP provides warehouse automation, logistics software and robotic systems for distribution and manufacturing operations. Its solutions include shuttle storage, conveyors, picking systems, autonomous mobile robots and robotic picking for sectors such as healthcare, fashion, retail, food and industrial goods.
Market context
KNAPP is directly relevant to warehouse robotics because its Open Shuttle AMRs and Pick-it-Easy robotic picking systems appear in named production, pharmaceutical, wholesale and industrial logistics deployments. KNAPP supplies and integrates AMRs, robotic picking systems, shuttle automation and warehouse software for intralogistics and fulfillment environments.
Facts
- Website: https://www.knapp.com
- HQ: Hart bei Graz, Austria
- Segment: Warehouse Logistics
Warehouse robotics and intralogistics automation
KNAPP supplies warehouse automation systems including Open Shuttle AMRs, Pick-it-Easy robotic picking, shuttle automation and software for production logistics, wholesale, healthcare and fulfillment operations.
- Target environment: Warehouses, production logistics, pharmaceutical distribution, wholesale operations, retail, e-commerce and industrial material flow.
- Deployment model: Warehouse automation builder and integrator with its own AMR and robotic picking product lines.
- Customer context: Operators needing automated transport, robotic picking, goods-to-person workflows and integrated warehouse control.
- Workflow context: AMR transport, pallet movement, automated picking, production supply, small-parts logistics and warehouse software orchestration.
- Commercial maturity: Mature warehouse-automation supplier with multiple named active customer deployments in the supply-chain graph.
- Market position: Comparable with warehouse robotics builders and integrators rather than delivery-robot or broad logistics companies.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on facility layout, SKU mix, throughput targets, integration complexity, safety validation and return-on-investment timing.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent to AutoStore integrators, AMR builders, robotic picking suppliers, WMS/WCS software providers and goods-to-person automation.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2025-03-17 - Award - KNAPP AeroBot wins LogiMAT Best Product 2025 - AeroBot made its first public appearance at LogiMAT 2025.
- 2023-01-16 - Partnership - Farmasiet selects KNAPP automation for new warehouse - The project supports Farmasiet's online pharmacy fulfillment operations.
- 2022-03-29 - Partnership - KNAPP extends AI robotics partnership with Covariant - The partnership supports AI-enabled robotic picking in KNAPP warehouse systems.
- 2021-12-06 - Deployment - KNAPP automation supports The Very Group fulfillment facility - The Skygate facility processed customer orders in 30 minutes.
Relationships
- Fronius - AMR deployment customer - KNAPP Open Shuttle Fork AMRs were deployed by Fronius for automated pallet transport at Sattledt.
- fulfillment automation customer - KNAPP automation helped The Very Group process orders at its Skygate distribution center.
- SICK Hungary - AMR production logistics deployment - KNAPP Open Shuttle AMRs deployed at SICK Hungary for production logistics.
- SICK Hungary - warehouse AMR provider - KNAPP Open Shuttle AMRs were deployed in SICK Hungary production logistics.
Customers and deployments
- Active Customer Site - 1 production site - 2025-11-28 - SICK Hungary - factory logistics - KNAPP reports Open Shuttle AMRs operating in SICK Hungary production logistics at Kunsziget. - source posture: Company Disclosed
- Named Fulfillment Automation Site - The Very Group Skygate automation site - 2021-12-06 - The Very Group - warehouse fulfillment automation - KNAPP automation helped The Very Group process orders at its Skygate distribu…
Articles
- 2025-05-02 - KNAPP is building Walmart fulfillment centers around Evo Shuttle scale - A May 2, 2025 Walmart case record gives KNAPP a multi-site fulfillment benchmark: five advanced centers, 12 steps compressed to five,…
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