Piab

Market context

Piab fills a suction and vacuum end-effector gap for robot picking, packaging, logistics, food handling and factory automation cells.

Facts

• Website: https://www.piab.com
• HQ: Taby, Stockholm County, Sweden
• Founded: 1968
• Segment: End Effectors

Vacuum and suction gripping layer

Piab sits in the vacuum end-effector layer, supplying suction cups, vacuum pumps, ejectors, soft grippers and cobot/robot gripper systems.

• Target environment: Picking, packaging, food handling, logistics, kitting and other robot-handling cells.
• Deployment model: Component and subsystem supplier through vacuum automation and robot/cobot gripping products.
• Customer context: Automation integrators and robot-cell builders selecting EOAT for variable product handling.
• Workflow context: Vacuum generation, suction-cup selection, soft gripping and EOAT integration.
• Commercial maturity: Established vacuum automation supplier with public robot and cobot gripping product lines.
• Market position: Suction systems are common in high-throughput robot picking where mechanical grippers are too slow, bulky or product-specific.
• Adoption constraints: Fit depends on object surface, porosity, weight, cycle time, vacuum source and contamination environment.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent to Schmalz, OnRobot, Festo and other EOAT suppliers.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2023-03-28 - Acquisition - Piab Group acquires COVAL to expand vacuum automation portfolio - COVAL adds vacuum cups, pumps and grippers to Piab Group automation position. The acquisition expands Piab Group coverage in vacuum automation components and systems. The deal strengthens robotics and automation customer support around suction and vacuum hand…

Supply chain relationships

• Gruppo Esea - Duraflex Friction Cups - Piab says Gruppo Esea used DURAFLEX friction cups in a Cartesian gantry pick-and-place palletizing system for vehicle batteries.
• MVQuadro - Kenos Kfg Grippers And Suction Cups - Piab says MVQuadro integrated Kenos KFG grippers and Piab suction cups in an automated assembly and packaging line with palletizing by cobot.
• Dromont Group - Kenos Kvg120 Foam Grippers - Piab says Dromont Group used Kenos KVG120 foam grippers in a high-speed pick-and-place system for paint drum handling.
• Best Handling Technology - Kenos Area Grippers, Coax Ejectors And Duraflex Suction Cups - Piab says Best Handling Technology used Kenos area grippers, COAX ejectors and DURAFLEX suction cups across 32 handling workstations.

Context tags

• End-effector supplier - Peer Group - Piab supplies vacuum grippers, suction cups and end-of-arm tooling.
• Adaptive grasping - Capability - Piab soft and vacuum gripping products support adaptive pick-and-place workflows.
• Manufacturing automation supplier - Peer Group - Piab supplies automation components around production and logistics cells.