Founded

• 1925 in Esslingen, Germany

Turnover (Group)

• 3.45 billion euros

Number of employees (Group)

• Around 20,600 employees worldwide

Business divisions

• Automation: automation technology
• Didactic: learning systems, training and consulting

Festo customers

• Automation: more than 300,000 industry customers in 176 countries
• Didactic: around 56,000 customers worldwide

R&D investment

• More than 8% of turnover

Portfolio

• Around 36,000 catalogue products in several hundred thousand variants
• Approximately 10,000 customised solutions per year
• Pneumatic, servo-pneumatic and electric automation technology
• LifeTech with medical technology and laboratory automation
• Industry-specific skills development solutions and industry consulting

Companies

• In more than 60 countries

Branch offices

• Over 250 branch offices

Distributors

• Authorised representatives in a further 40 countries

Worldwide service

• In 176 countries

Quality certificates

• ISO 9001 (since 1990)
• PED 97/23/EC, Module D1 for air reservoirs (since 2004)
• ISO/IEC 80079-34 since 2013 for products in explosion protection areas (2004-2013 to EN 13980)
• ISO 13485 (since 2015)

Environmental certificates

• ISO 14001 (since 1999)
  (EMAS I 1996-2002)

Group certification in development, production and logistics network

• 15 locations certified to ISO 9001
• 15 locations certified to ISO 14001
• 2 locations certified to OHSAS 18001
• 9 locations certified to ISO 13485

Certifications in the sales companies

• 58 sales companies certified to ISO 9001