Stäubli
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- Rolf Strebel (CEO)
- Dr. Jacob Bear ( Chairman of the Board )
Stäubli International AG is an internationally active Swiss technology group. The main activities are divided into three areas: textile machinery, quick coupling systems and industrial robots.
The company employs 4,000 people worldwide. They work in 12 manufacturing companies ( Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, USA, China ) and 25 representative offices (U.S., Japan, India, Italy, Mexico, France, Brazil, Hong Kong, Germany, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, Korea).
History
Stäubli was founded in 1892 under the name Schelling & Stäubli as a repair workshop for textile machinery in Horgen on Lake Zurich. In the fifties, the company expanded and began quick couplings for hydraulic and pneumatic applications produce. 1982 was a collaboration with the U.S. robot manufacturers Unimation and thus to a further extension in the field of robotics. Other important steps for the company ( in 1983 ) the acquisition of Jacquardmaschinenproduktion of which was founded in Lyon in 1883 and the company Verdol few years later brought to market electronic jacquard machine, which replaced the punched card system. After several acquisitions, the electronics company DEIMO came 2002, the Swiss connector manufacturer Multi-Contact and 2007 the Group.
Product Areas
Connectors
- Mono- and multi-coupling systems for the connection and disconnection of fluid-carrying lines for nearly all gases and liquids
- Tool changing and tensioning systems for quick change of injection molds ( = plastic molds ) in the plastics industry
The customers for connectors used among other things in the automotive industry, the plastics industry, mechanical and plant engineering, rail technology, the steel industry, the chemical, pharmaceutical and medical devices, motor sports technology, aerospace and military technology.
Robotics
- 6-axis SCARA and ( = 4-axis (endorsed by the BOSCH Rexroth AG) ) Industrial robots for highest repeatability especially for handling, jointing and painting
The customers for Robotics come from the automotive and manufacturing industry, electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, the plastic industry, coating technology, engineering, and the field of " white goods ".
Textile Machinery
- Jacquard, dobby and cam motions, Teppichwebanlagen, weaving preparation systems.
Companies in the Group
- Schönherr carpet weaving (Bayreuth, Germany )
- Multi-Contact, electrical connectors (Basel, Switzerland )
- Deimo ( Carate, Italy)