SCHUNK confirmed as global market leader for the fourth time in a row
“The 500 hidden world market leaders 2021” is the headline of the special edition of “WirtschaftsWoche” magazine in November 2020 and presents the World Market Leader Index 2021, which is compiled once a year by the Henri B. Meier Entrepreneurial School at the University of St. Gallen and the Academy of German World Market Leaders (ADWM).
SCHUNK, the specialist for gripping systems and clamping technology from Lauffen am Neckar, has been listed amont these market leaders for the fourth time in a row. “It is a special recognition of our number one posiiton as competence leader that we were once again able to positon ourselves in the leading group of the top 500 world market leaders in the objective and transparent ranking for the entire DACH region, emphasized Chief Executive Officer of the SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG, Kristina I. Schunk. “At the same time, we take up the theme, and will further expand our market position over the years.”
Area of growth: digitalization
The “WirtschaftsWoche” also reports on how this will be feasible: In the medium term, the clamping devices and gripping systems of the technology forge are to be equipped with intelligence and thus will be able to plan and monitor processes independently. SCHUNK has already standardized its first intelligent toolholder. At the same time, SCHUNK’s own technology factory is designing intelligent grippers that can detect workpieces and plan the individually suitable gripping strategy by means of artificial intelligence autonomously. “And particularly digitalization opens up entirely new possibilities in creating industrial processes,” underlined Kristina I. Schunk. “We actively use this opportunity, because it safeguards jobs on the long term and strengthens the economic strength of Germany as a commercial location.”
World Market Leader Index
Prof. Dr. Christoph Müller, Chief Executive Officer of the UEC University Entrepreneurship Corporation gemeinnützige GmbH,is responsible for the scientific leadership of the project. The Academy of German World Market Leaders (Schwäbisch Hall) of the Minister of Economic Affairs (ret.) Dr. Walter Däring is actively involved as a collaporating partner in determining the index. Every January, the academy organizes the congress “Summit of World Market Leaders” in Schwäbisch Hall.
