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About Festo

Festo is a German family-owned engineering group that is one of the world’s largest suppliers of factory and process automation technology. It was founded in Esslingen in 1925 as a maker of woodworking machines and pivoted into pneumatic automation in the 1950s; the catalogue has since widened from pneumatic cylinders, valves and vacuum technology to electric servo drives, digital and software-defined automation, and complete handling systems, sold to some 300,000 automation customers. A distinguishing part of the group is Festo Didactic, its technical-education arm, which equips training centres and counts tens of thousands of education customers — giving Festo an unusually direct channel into the automation workforce.

The group is also known for its Bionic Learning Network, a long-running research programme whose bio-inspired robots (flying, swimming and walking machines modelled on birds, fish and kangaroos) feed ideas back into products such as soft grippers. Its official group profile for fiscal 2025 reports 20,600 employees, around 250 branch offices, technical services in 176 countries and turnover of €3.33 billion. For partners, Festo is foundational automation infrastructure rather than a robot maker: its drives, valves and handling systems sit inside production equipment across more than 35 industries, from automotive and electronics to food, packaging and life sciences.

Products & services

• Pneumatic drives, valves and valve terminals, vacuum technology and compressed-air preparation
• Electric automation: servo drives, motors, controllers and axis systems
• Digital automation: software, IO-Link and AI-supported condition-monitoring solutions
• Process automation: process valves, actuators and solutions for the process industries
• Handling systems and grippers, including bio-inspired soft gripping from the Bionic Learning Network
• Festo Didactic: technical education, learning systems and training for industry (company-stated: 56,000 education customers)

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