History

Sven Axel Tell founded PIAB in 1951. PIAB is a company rich in competence and with an organisation whose culture, structure and processes encourage an innovative climate. Since the company was established in 1951 a wide range of products have been developed in the fields of vacuum and measuring techniques. The first product developed was a drawing compass that simplified the work for designers and draughtsmen, and thereof the company name Pi (3.14) AB.

Later on a series of instruments for measuring tensile forces were designed. At the end of the `60s the first vacuum product was invented, pneumatic vacuum tweezers. Today PIAB`s vacuum products are marketed throughout the world, and the latest addition to the product range is the piFLOW conveyor, which is a revolutionary development in the fields of energy-efficient vacuum conveying.