Festo offers custom-made automation solutions for the biotech, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. Whether you produce active pharmaceutical ingredients using biotechnological or chemical processes, prepare formulations as a contract manufacturer or fill parenterals in cleanrooms, we can automate your processes to ensure reproducible product quality. Solutions, products and training courses from Festo provide reliability and increase your productivity. Rely on our combined engineering competency and decades of experience in automation technology.
Tablet production
Reliable automation of tablet production processes
Find out more about our solutions to optimise the production of semi-solid products
Cream production
Reliable automation of cream production processes
Find out more about our solutions for process optimisation of cream production
SIL: functional safety
Minimise the safety risks for people and the environment
The reliability of safety functions in electric and electronic systems is assessed according to safety integrity levels defined in the basic standard IEC 61508.
Festo provides suitable products that meet the requirements for safety-related functions in chemical plants.
GMP- and FDA-compliant products and solutions
The regulations of the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines are also used as the standards for product development and solution engineering at Festo.
FDA-compliant products for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry
Angle seat valve VZXA
Flexible process valve:
The modular product concept makes it easier to modify and maintain your systems.
Biotest AG customer application
Standardised automation in blood plasma fractionation
In its new large-scale plant for plasma fractionation, Biotest AG can now obtain five instead of the previous three products from a litre of blood plasma. Our standardised components simplify installation and maintenance.
Production of parenterals
Reliable automation of the production processes of parenterals
Learn more about the optimisation potential for automation technology in the production of parenteralsAutomation for bulk materials applications
Individually tailored to your requirements and applications for dosing, conveying, storing, mixing and separating – all from a single source.
Explosion prevention and protection
Keeping explosive atmospheres under control
Open- and closed-loop control in potentially explosive atmospheres:
Festo offers suitable products for the entire pneumatic and electrical control chain, including extensive documentation and declarations of conformity.
Additional information on explosion prevention and protection
Configurator for process valve units
Quick and easy
From manually actuated process valves to fully automated ones, the new configurator makes selecting the optimum solution quick and reliable.
Ball valves - for every application
The range of stainless steel ball valves is highly flexible thanks to its good media resistance and wide variety of connection types.
Bayer Division Crop Science customer application
Proven solenoid valve technology for SIL applications
Tried and tested in operation since 2002: certified solenoid valves with no limitation on operating time in a multi-purpose plant with the highest standards in safety and reliability
