Tünkers mechanical engineering

Tünkers mechanical engineering
legal form	GmbH
founding	1962
Seat	Ratingen , Germany
management	Josef Gerhard Tünkers (Managing Director / Founder); Olaf Tünkers (Managing Director); André Tünkers (Managing Director);
Number of employees	1100
sales	German GmbH: EUR 108 million (2016) ; worldwide: EUR 260 million
Branch	Mechanical engineering , automotive , automation , conveyor technology , intralogistics
Website	www.tuenkers.de
	Status: 2017

The Tünkers Maschinenbau GmbH is an engineering company, founded in 1962 by Josef Gerhard Tünkers and two partners at the location Ratingen near Dusseldorf.

The second-generation family company is a factory supplier and, together with its subsidiaries Expert-Tünkers, Tünkers-Nickel, Sopap in France, Tünkers Ibérica in Spain and Helu in Lorsch , offers a product range in the field of industrial robots with the topics of clamping, positioning, process, Gripping, forming, welding, dispensing, rotating, conveying and transporting.

Company profile

Tünkers has around 1100 employees, spread over ten production sites, including in Ratingen, Lorsch, Troisdorf, Kingswinford (England), Tournes (France), Barcelona (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Detroit (USA), Shanghai ( China), Pune (India). The company holds around 350 patents at home and abroad.

Tünkers manufactures automation solutions for everything to do with industrial robots. For this purpose, Tünkers introduced the nine automation modules. Tünkers also produces electric wheelchairs, small electric vehicles for collecting luggage trolleys at airports, MoVi, a small vehicle for factory premises or for use in urban areas, as well as the intralogistics robots (ILR) and driverless transport systems (AGV / AGV) introduced in 2016, which to further develop the logistics processes.

history

In 1962, the field of activity extended to the planning, construction and manufacture of machines and hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

A room at Mülheimer Straße 75 in Ratingen, the residence of the Tünkers family, was initially used as the company's headquarters. It was rented as a design office and equipped with two drawing boards and two typewriters. The first orders were the development of special hydraulic cylinders for furnace construction, which was then strong in the Ruhr area, which were initially manufactured externally. Two years later, the company set up its own production facility on Mülheimer Strasse in Ratingen in rented halls.

This was followed by the manufacture of hydraulic lifting platforms for elevator furnaces, shuttle car moving machines, push-in machines for tunnel furnaces, walking beam drives and cover moving machines as well as drum cleaning systems. The breakthrough came with the award of a tender by the Bundeswehr for an axle locking cylinder. For the company this meant the entry into series production and the business of cylinders for crane vehicles and later concrete pumps. The move to new premises on Neanderstrasse, formerly Adolph's safe factory, followed.

At the end of the 1960s , a toggle clamp operated with compressed air was developed for Ford in Cologne, which replaced the manual clamps that had been common up to that point and streamlined auto body production. The Spanner developed into another mainstay of the Tünkers Group.

After the departure of the most important customer Faun , the goal was to position the company more stable on several pillars, with several product segments in different industries. In 1975 the company entered the paper processing business with the acquisition of the gluing and laminating machines division from Jagenberg . This product segment was later expanded with the acquisition of the Karma laminating systems, and at that time it formed a new pillar of the company. The entry into the field of civil engineering with vibratory pile drivers followed. At almost the same time, the power wheelchair product segment emerged from the cooperation with Ratingen disabled people.

The expansion made it necessary to rent additional premises in the Ratingen city area, initially on Lintorfer Straße and later on Voisweg. At the beginning of the 1980s, all three locations with their business areas were housed in the new building at Am Rosenkothen 8, thus forming a joint group of companies.

The international expansion of the automotive industry, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, led to an upswing in the Spanner division. This development was reinforced by the expansion of the product range with punching, embossing and joining systems and later with robot gripper systems.

After 2000, expansion in foreign markets was driven by the establishment of branches in France, Brazil, China and the USA, among others, and later supplemented by the acquisition of companies that matched the product range.

Products

The best-known product is the Tünkers spanner. The patented toggle clamp was a tool for the development of fully automated system technology in the 1970s. Today Tünkers is through numerous z. Some of the patented developments in the field of positioning and processes, known in forming technology and for modular robot gripper systems. Expert-Tünkers and Sopap with rotary indexing tables are also part of the Tünkers product range, such as the APM conveyor systems. Since January 2016, Tünkers-Nickel GmbH has been supplementing the range with dosing systems with a focus on adhesive technology.

Clamping, positioning, gripping, forming, welding, dispensing, rotating, conveying and transporting form the "nine modules of automation" in the area of industrial robots. The products of the Tünkers Group are divided into the nine automation modules as follows:

Clamping : mini clamps, pneumatic grippers, parallel grippers, standard clamps, electric clamps, base clamps, swing clamps and manual clamps

Positioning : swivel units, slides, linear cylinders, rotary units and lifting units

Gripping: Tünkers Round Tube System (TRR), Tünkers Carbon Tube System (TCR), Tünkers One Screw System (TOS), Euro Gripper Tooling System (EGT), elements for gripping, clamping, positioning, special solutions and services

Forming: punching, embossing, joining, clinching, special formers, pliers technology and devices

Welding: welding clamps, welding guns, manual welding guns, special welding guns, welding machines and pressure welding tools

Dosing: Dosers, controls, pump stands, application heads, fully electronic dosing system, Tünkers condition monitoring and module concepts

Turning: roller turntables, simplex turntables, compact turntables, index drives and manual turntables

Conveying: accumulation conveyors, cycle conveyors, transfer systems, belt conveyors, gravity conveyors, heavy-duty roller conveyors, container systems, conveyor systems and electric overhead conveyors

Transport: lifting / lowering conveyors, lifting shuttles, roller conveyor lifters, monorail shuttles, lifting and rotating units, skid conveyor systems, floor lifts, 7th axes for robots, pallet tool changing systems, intralogistics robots (ILR) and driverless transport systems (AGV)

Further products

E- mobiles : electric wheelchairs, MOVIs and airport scooters

Ramming and pulling technology: Electrically and hydraulically driven vibratory hammers
Paper technology: gluing machines, laminating machines and packaging systems for folding box gluing machines

Locations

International

over 50 factory branches and sales offices
over 1100 employees

Web links

Tuenkers.de

Individual evidence

↑ Annual financial statements for the business year from January 1 , 2016 to December 31, 2016 (balance sheet as of December 31, 2016) in the Federal Gazette, April 4, 2018

[1] Annual financial statements for the business year from January 1 , 2016 to December 31, 2016 (balance sheet as of December 31, 2016) in the Federal Gazette, April 4, 2018