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Innovative automation solutions for bulk handling

Whether you’re a machine builder or operator, whether you work with coarse or fine bulk material, Festo offers innovative automation solutions for your dosing, conveying, storing, mixing and separating processes – all from a single source, individually tailored to your requirements and applications. In addition, you benefit from solutions for digitalization and modular automation. So you can adapt and future-proof your processes for every new development.

Individual automation solutions for your bulk handling applications

Dosing

Bulk materials dispensing

Sample applications for dosing materials:

  • Screw feeder
  • Pneumatic valves
  • Docking

Better with Festo:
We have the right combination of automation components for you, enabling highly precise dosing. From fully automated butterfly valve units, quarter turn and linear actuators to matching valve manifolds, we offer innovative and individual solutions for your dosing process.

Conveying

Bulk materials conveyance

Sample applications for conveyed materials:

  • Pneumatic conveying, continuous and batch
  • Dense phase conveying
  • Dilute phase conveying

Better with Festo:
In addition to our automated butterfly valves, integrated quarter turn actuators with sensor boxes, gate valves, control units and our valve manifolds ensure that your conveyor system runs efficiently and smoothly. Compressed air treatment is part of the pneumatic automation concept.

Storing

Bulk material storage

Sample applications for material storage:

  • Emptying stations for big bags or sacks
  • Emptying and filling reservoirs and silos
  • Transforming small components

Better with Festo:
Storing, relocating and refilling – the more complex the process structure, the more essential individual automation solutions from Festo are. You can easily implement all the necessary controls for linear cylinders, gate valves, flaps or other actuators using our valve manifold.

Mixing

Bulk materials mixing

Sample applications for materials mixing:

  • Mixing liquids with bulk materials
  • Coloring granulates
  • Batch/continuous mixers

Better with Festo:
Especially in continuous mixing processes, it’s important to ensure that the materials have a homogeneous structure after they’ve been mixed. But for discontinuous mixing processes as well, components from Festo which are controlled by valve manifolds are a reliable, high-quality automation solution for your systems.

Separating

Separating bulk materials

Sample applications for separating materials:

  • Filtering out foreign particles
  • Breaking up products
  • Fractionation
  • Reliable feeding of processing machines

Better with Festo:
With our quarter turn and linear actuators, you can effortlessly automate deflectors, flaps, gate valves and other process valves. In addition, the valve manifold, sensor box and valve positioner enable you to implement the best possible control concept for separating your bulk materials. The filters are cleaned by precisely dosed air jets – sometimes with large volumes of air – opposite the process direction.