Create your FREE account to access all our content! Sign up My Piab Menu Search for products and other content Search Inside Piab About us Evolving automation since 1951 Piab is evolving automation through progressive gripping, lifting and moving solutions. We believe in an automated world where no resources are wasted, and no humans are injured. Evolving ourselves. Evolving you. Evolving automation. Our purpose is evolving automation. It´s why we exist. At Piab we strive to advance everything. Each other. Our customers. And, in the end, the automated world around us. Evolving inspires us to continuously strive to improve for the better. In every human interaction, in every ambition, in every idea. By doing so, our environment becomes a product of us, and not the other way around. This is how we put our mark on the world. We specialise in automated process components and solutions to enable gripping, lifting and moving applications for our customers in all industries with special attention to Packaging, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Logistics and Warehousing, Plastics and Automotive. It all started with an invention. Piab´s founder Sven Tell and his love for the mathematical formula pi led to the development of the unique drawing compass. This also prompted the company name “Pi” and “AB” which is the Swedish word for Incorporated (Inc.). This was back in 1951 and Piab has been coming up with new inventions throughout the decades since. By 1968, Sven´s son Peter Tell, had founded Piab´s vacuum division, which formed the basis for today´s company. He invented the first vacuum product, the PmS-Pistol. Piab´s first multistage vacuum ejector laid the foundation for a wide range of vacuum products that were to follow in the 1970s. With this new technology, Piab began expanding beyond Sweden, eventually becoming a global company with distributors and subsidiaries worldwide. Other products like vacuum pumps, suction cups and vacuum conveyors, were added to the product line in subsequent decades and in recent years, multiple acquisitions have helped to expand the offering even further. Today, Piab offers ergonomic handling and robotic gripping solutions which complement the company’s traditional vacuum automation and vacuum conveying solutions. Piab has registered more than 65 patents over the years and the pace of innovation is continuously increasing along with the demand for automated solutions. As Piab takes the lead in the industry, research and development is as important as ever, and we will continue to provide our customers with progressive gripping, lifting and moving solutions that help them evolve. Peter Tell and his family sold Piab in 2006, and today Piab is fully owned by Patricia Industries, part of Investor AB. The company still very much feels like a family. In fact, it is the familial feel alongside the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that remain the heart of the company. Piab will always continue to follow its own inner compass. The unique drawing compass from 1951. Piab in facts 650 employees 25 sales offices throughout the world 900 partners globally 3 divisions 100 countries presence HQ in Täby, Sweden Products & Solutions Vacuum pumps and ejectors Suction cups and soft grippers Robot End of Arm Toolig (EOAT) components Robot and Cobot gripping solutions System and solution accessories Vacuum conveyors for powder and bulk Resources CAD centre Product configurators Terms & Conditions of sales Privacy notice Inside Piab About us Global organisation Code of conduct News Support Contact Find partner FAQ Help me choose Training English (International) Privacy notice Piab AB © 2021 Feedback Chat Iconchat bubble with three dots indicates an agent is available to chat Chat with us! We use cookies to make sure you get the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, you're agreeing to receive all cookies on the piab.com website. Read more Accept