Schunk wins Robert Bosch GmbH Global Supplier Award

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Clamping and gripping technology specialist Schunk has been awarded the Robert Bosch GmbH 'Global Supplier Award' in the category 'Indirect Purchase'.

Bosch awards this prize to companies that demonstrate superior performance in the production and delivery of products or services. "The Bosch Global Supplier Award is an award and incentive at the same time. With this prize, we honour the merits of our best suppliers. We want to encourage all the other suppliers to also deliver such top performance," said Dr Volkmar Denner, chairman of the Bosch Managing Board at the prize-giving in Stuttgart. According to Henrik A Schunk, managing partner of Schunk GmbH & Co KG, in Lauffen, Germany: "This award underlines the innovative strength and the global performance of Schunk. It is our aim to develop new efficiency potentials in production automation with our superior modules and solutions again and again in the future." With 2,000 employees and a global network of subsidiaries and distribution partners in more than 50 countries around the globe, Schunk says it is considered to be the leading supplier for clamping technology and gripping systems. The family-owned company has grown on average by more than 12% year on year over the past 25 years. Henrik Schunk (second from left) and technical director Dr Markus Klaiber (third from left) receive the award The full supplier awards press release is at the link below