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The Festo company at a glance
Festo is both a global player and an independent family-run company based in Esslingen, Germany. We supply pneumatic and electrical automation technology for 300,000 customers in over 35 industries.
| Business sectors | • Automation: automation technology • Didactic: learning systems, training and consulting |
| Year of foundation | • 1925 |
| Turnover (Group) | • 2.74 billion euros |
| Number of employees (Group) | • Around 18,800 employees globally |
| R+D investment | • Around 8% of turnover |
| Portfolio | • Around 33,000 catalogue products in several hundred thousand variants • Approximately 15,000 customer solutions per year • Pneumatic, servopneumatic and electric automation technology • Industry-specific skills development solutions and industry consulting |
| Companies | • In 61 countries |
| Branch offices | • Over 250 branch offices |
| Agencies |
• Authorised agencies in a further 40 countries |
| Worldwide after-sales service | • In 176 countries |
| Quality certificates | • ISO 9001 (since 1990) • PED 97/23/EC, Module D1 for Pressure Vessels (since 2004) • ISO/IEC 80079-34 since 2013 for products for explosion protection areas / (2004- 2013 pursuant to EN 13980) • ISO 13485 (since 2015) • Letter of Conformity for Festo AG & Co. KG (en) |
| Environmental certificates | • ISO 14001 (since 1999) / (EMAS I 1996 – 2002) |
| Group certification in development, production and logistics network | • 12 locations certified to ISO 9001 • 12 locations certified to ISO 14001 • 3 locations certified to VDA 6.4 • 3 locations certified to OHSAS 18001 • 2 locations certified to ISO 13485 |
| Quality and environmental certification for other Festo companies |
• 51 companies worldwide ISO 9001 certified |
| Festo customers | • More than 300,000 in 176 countries |