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About Afag Automation

Afag Automation is a Swiss specialist in electric linear motion, feeding and handling automation, headquartered in Zell, Switzerland, with more than 65 years in assembly automation and more than 300 employees across Switzerland, Germany, China and the United States at the time of its acquisition. Afag is filed here for its handling and gripping modules: pneumatic and electric grippers, rotary-grip units and handling modules that combine linear and rotary motion, sold alongside its linear axes, rotary indexers and vibratory and belt feeding systems as a complete parts-handling toolkit for assembly automation. Emerson’s acquisition announcement describes Afag as an innovative leader in electric linear motion, feeding and handling, serving battery manufacturing, automotive, packaging, medical, life sciences and electronics customers, and notes that the deal combined Afag’s electric motion with Emerson’s pneumatic motion technology in its Discrete Automation segment.

The acquisition was agreed in August 2023 and completed in September 2023; Afag continues to operate under its own brand as the operating company, which is how it is filed here. Its handling background includes supplying equipment to the Swiss watchmaking industry, a heritage of small-part precision that carries into battery and electronics assembly. For directory partners, Afag is the handling-module specialist to consult when an assembly line needs grippers, feeders and transfer motion engineered to work together.

Products & services

• Pneumatic and electric grippers and rotary-grip units
• Handling modules combining linear and rotary motion
• Electric linear axes and linear motion modules
• Vibratory and belt feeding systems and components
• Rotary indexing and assembly-automation components

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