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Piab revolutionizes vacuum system configuration with OVM Pro 3D tool
Piab has launched its highly anticipated OVM Pro 3D, a cutting-edge on-line tool designed to transform the way vacuum systems are configured, simulated and optimized.
New BXP ESD cups move batteries to safer ground
BXP ESD is a new series of modular suction cups, developed to protect sensitive components in batteries, fuel cells and electronics from electrostatic discharge during handling.
piSAFE® - now even safer
As piSAFE® is now upgraded the safety focus remains, however with versatility and sustainability as new companions.
piCOBOT® Electric breaks the barriers of cobot arm movement
Fully electric, slim design and absence of air-tubing and cabling. The new piCOBOT® Electric heads towards another success for Piab's piCOBOT® program.
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New BXP 45mm suction cup accompanied by 65 and 90 mm versions
Our recent 45 mm cup for the BXP segment is now accompanied by 65 and 90 mm versions.
New piCOBOT® plug & play configuration for FANUC CRX cobots
We now offer piCOBOT® and piCOBOT®L in completely FANUC CRX adapted versions. Plug & Play in every aspect.
Acclaimed BXP cups see new family member and configurator premiere
Our widely acclaimed BXP cups, most often used to pick objects with particularly porous surfaces, will now be complemented with a 45 mm [1.77 in] version.
Piab strengthens its grip on palletizing with the LBG-50
Piab strengthens its grip on the palletizing solutions market with a pre-engineered lightweight bag gripper, the LBG-50.
Four decades and still running – a story of conveyors that last
To celebrate the 70-year anniversary of Piab, the Vacuum Conveying Division launched a competition to find the oldest, still running Piab vacuum conveyor out there. And it was found...
Piab Group acquires COVAL
Piab Group has acquired COVAL, a major global player in vacuum automation components and systems...
Four useful additions to Piab’s Automotive suction cups
Four new suction cups extend the PAF (Piab Automotive Flat) and PAB (Piab Automotive Bellow) families with two new sizes each - Ø100mm and Ø125mm.
Piab piGRIP® Foam Lip - FLIW handles objects with irregular or unstructured surfaces
FLIW (Foam Lip Wide) is our latest contribution to the piGRIP® series. Fully configurable with a multitude of combinations, makes it a perfect fit for any picking application...
Piab’s new egg suction cup ECX36 increases productivity of egg handling processes
A stable though gentle suction cup for egg handling processes enabling high speed applications. Test them now!
A gentle grip on any fruit from avocado to zucchini with Piab’s new fruit suction cup FCX50
The FCX50 suction cup picks any fruit independently of shape or texture even off-axis thanks to its multiple lips and flexible bellows...
Selected Joulin grippers now sold under the Kenos® brand
Piab has integrated three of Joulin's gripper ranges into its Kenos® portfolio, while the solutions for the heavy-duty industries continue to be marketed under the Joulin brand...
Introducing piCOMPACT®10X SMART, Piab adds functionality to a small footprint ejector
A compact, efficient, and intelligent ejector that enables you to take the next step in...
Palletizing in rugged and dusty environments made easy with the new Kenos®Safe&Light
With a payload of up to 130 pounds, depending on the selected gripper size, the KSL is ideal for cardboard handling in warehouse and e-commerce applications...
Mini but mighty – the new Kenos®MiniGrip offers a stable and rigid hold even on rough surfaces
The Kenos®KMG is a vacuum foam gripper that can be adapted to tight clearance applications in an EOAT similar to a suction cup...
Adapt the new versatile Kenos®FlexiGrip to perfectly match your application requirements
The new Kenos®KFG vacuum foam gripper offers many advantages in mass production of products with uneven, rough, structured or textured surfaces...
Piab’s #1 item picker family is now extended with the smaller cup size of 25 mm and additional features
Discover Piab’s #1 item picker: MX multi-purpose suction cups offer extreme gripping capabilities on any surface from bag to box – ideal for e-commerce...
Lifting more with less with Piab’s new piCOBOT®L vacuum pump unit
With its lifting capability of up to 35 lbs, the piCOBOT®L is particularly attractive for...
Improve automation acceptance by conveying bulk solids with Piab’s new product series
Vacuum conveying solutions for powders, granules, and small particles must be easy to adapt, efficient, and sustainable. Piab continues to evolve manufacturing workplaces with...
The Mini Cobot Gripper (MCG) from Piab – small is powerful!
Weighing just 9.5 ounces, the MCG is probably the lightest cobot gripper in the world. It lifts parts up to...
Piab’s new Cobot Palletizing Tool (CPT) helps to get more pallets out per day
The CPT is a smart and compact cobot gripper. Its multi-zone gripper surface picks several boxes...
Piab extends its line of suction cup accessories
With three new attachment options Piab is offering further EOAT design possibilities for optimal handling system solutions construction...
Piab launches the P suction cups series with profiled rubber strips
Piab has developed a specific set of suction cups for rough textured surfaces...
Piab adds new sizes to its Bellows Polyurethane suction cup family: B150P and B200P
With their short bellows, these Bellow Polyurethane (BP) suction cups are ideally suited to handle objects of...
Flimsy bags can now be picked and handled more easily with a safe grip
Bags become more thinner and flimsier and need to be treated carefully. Thanks to the...
Peter Laurin new CEO at Piab
Peter Laurin has been appointed new CEO of Piab, effective from...
Easy separation of samples with vacuum technology from Piab
Sample separation is a regular task in chemical laboratories to conduct further research. Piab’s Lab Vac vacuum pumps ensure...
Quick to market with new canned products thanks to efficient palletizing solutions from Piab
With Piab‘s Kenos® area gripper, the duration of the palletizing process of food and beverage cans is significantly...
With piSOFTGRIP® 100-4, Piab is launching the largest gripper of this series
Piab is proud to introduce the new and largest soft gripper developed especially with food industry...
A partnership between Höganäs and Piab is set to make Additive Manufacturing more sustainable and efficient
Höganäs and Piab have formed a partnership to leverage their respective areas of expertise with the goal of advancing...
Piab Group acquires Manut-LM to become the leader in lifting automation in France
Piab Lifting Automation Division has entered into an agreement to acquire Manut-LM, the French leading tube lifting company. Piab Lifting Automation will through the acquisition...
Elevating the learning experience
To better facilitate a high-performing learning environment for our customers and partners, we at Piab is now launching...
Piab introduces piFLOW®am
The piFLOW®am is a small vacuum conveyor designed based on requirements from OEMs within the Additive...
Now available – the gripper for automated handling of six-packs
With Piab’s new gripper, six-packs with cardboard wrapping can be handled automatically, gently and...
Automating powder handling in Additive Manufacturing
Automating metal powder handling is key to establish the Additive Manufacturing technology as a standard process. Piab’s vacuum conveying powder...
Piab extends the Kenos® Sack Gripper program
The highly reliable Kenos® KSG gripper is now extended with a new smaller size, sealing ring and can now also be configured with...
Kenos® Reverse valves program is extended
The KRV reverse valve controls the air flow and is typically used in external vacuum generator systems. Robust and reliable, KRV valves are offered in models for...
Piab extends the VGS™ product range with VGS™4005
The VGS™4005 is geared to cater for mid-range applications where less vacuum depth is needed. The vacuum gripper ejectors are robust, easy to use and designed to...
Conveying made easy with Piab’s piFLOW®p SMART Conveying Cycle Optimizer (CCO)
Wouldn’t conveying more material at the same time, with less requirements on operator skills and saving on energy costs sound great? If so, check out Piab’s newest edition to its premium conveyor series.
Piab launches the Vacuplus ejector series for low to mid-range applications
As a part of our ambition to expand our global portfolio, we at Piab are thrilled to present the launch of our Vacuplus ejectors, geared to cater for low to mid-range applications that cannot compromise on ejector performance.
Piab expands its new series of automotive suction cups with the addition of three new sub-families
Piab is proud to introduce a new series of automotive suction cups which address the applications within body shop and part assembly as well as low/medium speed press lines. These new cups add to a now complete program, all in all 22 new cups.
piSAFE® launch - Full program now available
Piab's piSAFE® program is now supplemented with piSAFE® Vacuum Safety Valve and piSAFE® Vacuum Safety Valve Mini for centralized systems which marks the completion of the piSAFE® program.
Piab is proud to announce the launch of the new piSAFE® program
Piab’s new piSAFE® program enables new benefits in applications where safety, flexibility, speed and performance are key.
New size to Bellows Flat Friction Suction Cup Family: BFFT80P-2
Piab expands its line of bellows flat friction suction cups to include a cup measuring 80 mm in diameter.
The #1 item picker: Piab is proud to introduce the new MX suction cup family
The #1 Item picker. The MX suction cup family is exceptional for picking various objects primarily for the Logistics, Warehousing, E-commerce, and Recycling industries.
Piab is evolving – A brand new customer-centric website launches today
With more than 650,000 users each year, Piab decided to up the ante on both the visual identity and the user experience of the new website. Through countless interviews, Piab created an even more customer-centric website which focuses on existing customers as well as exploring users.
Piab is stepping up automation in the food industry, introducing a new vacuum-driven soft gripper
Cost effective solution for handling sensitive and difficult objects.
Clas Gunneberg new CEO of Piab
The Board of Piab are pleased to announce that Clas Gunneberg will join as CEO at the latest by November, 2019.
The Changeover Champion
Change conveyed material in 10 minutes instead of 1 hour. piFLOW®p SMART offers six times faster changeover.
It’s SMART to be safe with Piab’s next-gen
Piab’s piCOMPACT®23 SMART vacuum ejector includes optocouplers to ensure extra safe operation.
Heavy-duty bag gripper for palletizing
Piab introduces the first-generation end-of-arm tools in 25 and 50kg payloads for palletizing a wide variety of products.
Piab adds new 90 mm size to bellows suction cup configurator
Further broadening its already extensive application range, Piab extends its line of bellows suction cups to include cups measuring 90 mm in diameter.
Piab adds new sizes to bellows suction cup line
Extra sizes, more functions in additional fittings, and the entire bellows suction cup line included in the online configurator.
Piab is proud to introduce the piSOFTGRIP® 50-2c
Piab once again extends the pi-SOFTGRIP® family with a new pinch gripper developed for the automation of the food/chocolate industry.
Piab enhances the piGRIP® bag lips (BGI): especially made for lifting sturdy and thin/delicate plastic bags
The BGI-Lip is great for picking both sturdy plastic bags and stand-up pouches filled with dry or wet food/substances. The BGI-2 lip, also gives excellent capabilities in picking thin/delicate plastic bags.
Piab adds three new sizes to Rectangular Bellows family
Piab extends its program of Rectangular Bellows cups with two new cups featuring an extra bellow: the RBL20x45, RBL30x55, and a complete new “square” cup the RBL60x60.
Piab produces a new series of automotive suction cups
Piab is proud to introduce a new series of automotive suction cups which address the applications in the Body and Part assembly as well as in low/medium speed press lines.
Piab introduces vacuum conveyor offer for the Additive Manufacturing industry
With extensive experience in material handling within the Pharmaceutical, Food and Chemicals industries, Piab is now extending its offer to the Additive Manufacturing industry.
Piab adds COMPACT10E® to the compact pump program
The Piab compact pump program is now expanded with a new alternative, COMPACT10E®, to complement the smaller size 10mm pump program.
ECU-15S piFLOW®p Smart
Piab continues the software development of the piFLOW®p SMART software platform, which focuses on ease of use and improved/added functionality
Piab extends the piSOFTGRIP® program with the piSOFTGRIP® 30-3
Piab is proud to introduce a new smaller size of the soft gripping tool piSOFTGRIP®, developed especially for the food/chocolate industry.
ECU-15- piFLOW® Electrical controller
The new software platform both for ECU-15 and ECU-15S can easily be upgraded with new software releases, adding new functionality in the future.
Piab adds new size to Bellows Flat Friction Cup Family
Further broadening its already extensive application range, Piab expands its line of bellows flat friction cups to include a cup measuring 60 mm in diameter.
Kenos® KVG60 gripper system now available to configure with Piab suction cups
With Piab’s new configurator tool, it is easy to design a KVG60 gripper system equipped with vacuum generation as well as Piab’s suction cups and flow control valves.
piCOBOT® is available with a plug and play configuration for the Fanuc CR4/CR7 robots
Through the user-friendly online configuration tool, Piab’s customers can now make the choice to have the piCOBOT® specified to the Fanuc robots CR4 & CR7.
Piab’s Chip ejector eases breathing for COVID-19 patients
A large medtech manufacturer has increased its production of bronchial secretion aspirators. Piab has followed suit and can thus deliver its Chip ejector in large quantities at short notice.
Three new bag gripping products ready for robots
Piab offers a wide range of End Of Arm Tooling (EOAT) for industrial robotic palletizing and de-palletizing operations, which are now on our website.
Introducing the piFLOW®i/f 28L vacuum conveyor
Piab is extending the piFLOW®i/f family range with a new vacuum conveyor that allows for larger batch volume.
Introducing the mid-range piFLOW®fc vacuum conveyor
Chocolates, cookies, crisps and coffee but also certain chemicals – the piFLOW®fc vacuum conveyor handles all.
Piab awarded ”Employer of the Year”!
We are incredibly proud to be awarded one of the Employers of the Year within the Construction and Manufacturing industries.
Digitizing vacuum generation enables predictive maintenance of robotic handling systems
Piab has upgraded its flagship product – the piCOMPACT® vacuum ejector series – to support Industry 4.0 functionality.
Piab Group acquires TAWI Group
Piab Group has entered into an agreement to acquire TAWI Group, a leading manufacturer of smart lifting solutions with global reach.
Piab Group has through Piab AB signed an agreement to acquire the business of PIVAC Syd AB
Pivac Syd AB is one of Piab’s current distributors of innovative vacuum solutions in Sweden.
Making piCOBOT® even more collaborative
Piab’s clever end-of-arm (EOAT) vacuum tool piCOBOT® extends its reach into the cobot market - now configurable for any cobot.
Piab Group has through Piab AB signed an agreement to acquire the businesses of Belker Vakuumteknik AB and PI-VAC AB
Belker Vakuumteknik AB and PI-VAC AB are two of Piab’s most important and long serving distributors in Sweden.
Piab’s vacuum conveying Changeover Champion
Machine learning in the new, unique piFLOW®p SMART takes vacuum conveying to a new level.
Advanced EOAT solutions for the plastics industry
Piab’s vacuum grippers are specially designed for handling plastic parts out of a mould.
Piab adds new 65 mm size to bellows suction cup line
Further broadening its already extensive application range, Piab extends its line of bellows suction cups to include cups measuring 65 mm in diameter.
Unique vacuum-based soft gripper for handling sensitive and delicate objects
Piab is stepping up automation in the food industry, introducing a new vacuum-driven soft gripper.
Safe powder handling for additive manufacturing
Easily deliver production powder to the additive manufacturing (3D printing) system without any particulate matter pollution for the employees with Piab's piFLOW®p SMART.
Piab awarded recognition as one of Sweden’s Best Managed Companies
Piab has received the 2019 Sweden’s Best Managed Companies recognition, sponsored by Deloitte in cooperation with Nasdaq.
piCOMPACT®23 SMART now available with IO-link Class B
Piab extends the piCOMPACT23 SMART program with IO-link Class B equipped with separate power domains between actuator power and the sensor power.
pre-engineered robotic carton clamp tool ready to be used out of the box
Piab's standard clamp tool is designed to increase your efficiency and decrease production time. It is pre-engineered and is simple to set up with allows for multiple configurations and accessories.
Vacuum handling optimizes processes in the food industry
Piab has developed moving and gripping solutions for the food industry from ingredient handling to packaging and palletizing. Vacuum handling technology can in many ways help to optimize processes along the food industry value chain. Be it by increasing efficiency, reducing energy consumption, or improving process reliability.
Piab and robominds develop the perfect bin picking system
In e-commerce as well as in intralogistics, so-called bin picking plays an outstanding role in process automation. To simplify the compilation of the components and to enable a smooth process, robominds offers a pre-configured system bundle consisting of software, camera system and gripper unit. The latter comes from Piab. Because Piab’s featherweight - the Mini Cobot gripper (MCG) - is particularly ideal for bin picking.
Switch faster from painkillers to antibiotics with piFLOW®p SMART
Pharmaceutical companies benefit from quick product changes. With the self-optimizing conveyor system the changeover of tablets can be done up to...