Knapp AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1952 |
| Seat | Hard near Graz |
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| Number of employees | 4120 (2018) |
| sales | EUR 954.27 million (2018) |
| Branch | Warehouse logistics and automation |
| Website | www.knapp.com |
The Knapp AG with headquarters in Hart bei Graz , is an Austrian manufacturer of intralogistics solutions and systems in the field of warehouse logistics and warehouse automation. His services include conception and development, implementation as a general contractor and follow-up support. The company has 40 locations worldwide.
history
The company was founded by Günter Knapp in 1952 in a small workshop in his private house.
In 1960, the core business consisted of building special machines such as donut fillers, breast pumps and elevators. This year the first order was placed in the pharmaceutical wholesale sector . This gave rise to the idea of producing automatic order picking machines.
In 1974 Knapp received its first international order. In 1980 the number of employees rose to 79. In addition, Günter Knapp acquired a plot of land near Graz, which still serves as the company's headquarters today.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the first automatic order picker was developed for use in pharmaceutical wholesaling and was used by Gehe in Germany in 1985 . In 1990 the company entered the American market.
Over the years, Knapp developed into a large company in the software sector , which was made possible by the acquisition of ATIS (now KNAPP Systemintegration GmbH), SYSLOG and LOGIM.
As of 2000, the company was listed as one of the world's top 20 material handling suppliers. In 2002 the number of employees rose to over 1,000 for the first time.
In 2008 Knapp took over the logistics company Moving AB in Scandinavia. Since then, Knapp-Moving has branches in Sweden , Norway and Denmark . Furthermore, the construction of the new group and development headquarters in Hart bei Graz began.
Since July 1, 2009, Knapp has been a public limited company under the name Knapp AG.
In 2010 Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH in Bielefeld (Germany) was taken over and the company expanded its field of activity to include textile logistics. In October, a new corporate headquarters was opened in Hart near Graz. Through cooperation with the Japanese company Daifuku , Knapp gained a stronger presence in Asia in the field of “Material Handling Systems” (MHE). The companies ivii GmbH and RedPilot were founded in 2016.
Since 2018 Knapp AG has more than 4100 employees in over 40 locations worldwide.
Products
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- Storage systems and technology
- Shuttle systems
- Picking systems (automatic, semi-automatic and manual systems for picking )
- Conveyor technology (container conveyor technology, sorter systems)
- Warehouse management systems
subsidiary company
- Knapp Systemintegration GmbH, Austria
- Knapp-Moving AB, Sweden
- Dürkopp-Fördertechnik GmbH, Germany
- Knapp IT Solutions GmbH, Austria
- KNAPP Industry Solutions GmbH, Austria
- ivii GmbH, Austria
literature
- Alfred Rauch: B2B portals for industrial companies, FH Joanneum, technical college degree in industrial management. Diploma thesis June 2001, p. 2.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b industrial magazine: Knapp AG. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c The official website - company
- ↑ 1984 - Automatic order picker In: Dieter Arnhold (Ed.): Intralogistics - Potentials, Perspektiven, Prognosen. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-540-29657-3 .
- ↑ Expansion of software expertise ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Logistik Express, May 3, 2006.
- ^ Takeover of Moving AB , MM Logistik, June 11, 2008.
- ↑ Takeover of Dürkopp Fördertechnik ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kleine Zeitung, July 5, 2010.
- ↑ KNAPP increases its presence in Asia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Logistik Express, November 8, 2010.
