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Festo – facts, figures, data

Business sectors
  • Automation: automation technology
  • Didactic: Learning systems, training and consulting
Year of foundation
  • 1925
Turnover (Group)
  • 1.65 billion euros
Number of employees (Group)
  • Around 12,800 employees globally
Basic and further training
  • 1.5% of turnover
Trainees (in Germany)
  • 7.2% of workforce in Germany
R+D investment
  • 7.5% of turnover
Portfolio
  • Around 28,000 catalogue products in several hundred thousand variants
  • Pneumatic, servopneumatic and electric automation technology
  • Industry-specific skills development solutions and industry consulting
Companies
  • 56 independent national companies
Branch offices
  • Over 250 branch offices
Agencies
  • Authorised agencies in a further 39 countries
Worldwide after-sales service
  • In 176 countries
Quality certificates
  • ISO 9001(since 1990)
  • VDA 6.4(since 2000)
    German automotive industry standard
  • ISO/TS 16949 (since 2007)
  • VDA 6.1 (1999 - 2007)
  • EN 13980 (since 2004)
    for ATEX products
  • PED 97/23/EC, Module D1 (since 2004)
    for pressure reservoirs
  • KBA approval (2004)
    German authority for the approval (homologation) of components for vehicles
Environmental certificates
Group certification in development, production and logistics network
  • ISO 9001 (since 2005)
  • ISO 14001 (since 2005)
  • 1 location certified to VDA 6.4
  • 1 location certified to ISO TS 16949
  • 1 location certified to OHSAS 18001
Certifications in the local sales companies
  • ISO 9001
Festo customers
  • More than 300,000 in 176 countries